"Man is a conscious, rational thinker and a supra-conscious creator genius."

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Source : "The basic trends of our times" by Pitirim Sorokin, (p. 39), 1964.

Pitirim Sorokin

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“Ours was the Togetherness Generation. We equated togetherness with salvation, and expected so much from it that it was bound to let us down. Companionship, security, lifelong physical and spiritual and emotional warmth - all were to be had for the twist of a ring and the breathing of a vow. And to be had no other way.”
“We learned how to love each other by loving together good things wholly outside each other.”

Source : Donald Hall (1997). “The Old Life”, p.92, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“This is what you learned in college," the narrator tells you early on. "A man desires the satisfaction of his desire; a woman desires the condition of desiring.”
“Those new regions [America] which we found and explored with the fleet . . . we may rightly call a New World . . . a continent more densely peopled and abounding in animals than our Europe or Asia or Africa; and, in addition, a climate milder than in any other region known to us.”

Source : Mundus Novus (1503) (translation by G. T. Northup)
“In the '70s, everybody was doing drugs, so long as you showed up and did your work, they'd use you until you died.”
“The test of friendship is assistance in adversity, and that too, unconditional assistance, Co-operation which needs consideration is as a commercial contract and not friendship. Conditional co-operation is like adulterated cement which does not bind.”
“Black-and-white gives you that sort of parallel world. Also, it's very close to the condition of dreaming, to the unconscious.”

Source : Interview with Joshua Klein, www.avclub.com. January 20, 1999.
“[T]eaching has been for me an education (Lord knows what it has been for my students).”

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