"When I was at Brown. In other words, I'd heard about [H.P. Lovecraft], but I didn't pay that much attention till I happened to go to a meeting about it. And then I got just totally turned on."

-- Paul Laffoley

#Attention Quotes #Pay Quotes #Lovecraft Quotes

“Some form of gnosis or immediacy is attached to all thinking as its root-form or primitive origination; every act of thinking has this passive derivation, this coming-into-being of thinking not out of nothing (as it likes to imagine) but out of some unthinkable something. But the most self-abstractivist or self-reductivist kind of thinking cannot tolerate even the notion (much less the traumatic experience or confrontation) of an incurable pathos, a weakness or blind-spot, within consciousness. The very idea is an insult to the autonomy or self-determinability of ego/will/reason.”
“Philosophy ... finds itself to be no longer anything but the heir to a fabulous mystical theology, but missing a God and wiping the slate clean.”
“These are the pale deaths which men miscall their lives”

Source : "Song: 'To Live Is to Die'". 1988.
“I don't see myself as a diva at all.”
“Repetition is the mother of skill.”
“Canadians, do not vomit on me!”
“If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the world, all you have to do is go to a state fair. Because five minutes at the fair, you'll be going, 'you know, we're alright. We are dang near royalty.'”

Source : Interview with Paul Harris, www.harrisonline.com. May 30, 1996.
“A nominal Christian often discovers in suffering that his faith has been in his church, denomination, or family tradition, but not Christ. As he faces evil and suffering, he may lose his faith. But thatâ€™s actually a good thing. I have sympathy for people who lose their faith, but any faith lost in suffering wasnâ€™t a faith worth keeping.”

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