"As far as inner action is concerned, we are only rarely truly self-determined persons, for the major part of our conscious mental activity rather is an automatic, unintentional form of behavior on the subpersonal level."

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Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com

Thomas Metzinger

#Self Quotes #Levels Quotes #Action Quotes

“At the heart of my politics has always been the value of community, the belief that we are not merely individuals struggling in isolation from each other, but members of a community who depend on each other, who benefit from each other's help, who owe obligations to each other. From that everything stems: solidarity, social justice, equality, freedom.”

Source : Tony Blair's speech to Faithworks, www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2005.
“It's been cool to see on the Voice all these up-and-coming artists from all over the country just develop and follow their careers as well, because we were all at a beginning point together. Now, after seeing the business side and behind-the-scenes stuff, it's hard for me to watch reality TV and play along like they want you to.”
“The beginning of human knowledge is through the senses, and the fiction writer begins where the human perception begins. He appeals through the senses, and you cannot appeal through the senses with abstractions.”
“FaÃ«rie contains many things besides elves and fays, and besides dwarfs, witches, trolls, giants, or dragons; it holds the seas, the sun, the moon, the sky; and the earth, and all things that are in it: tree and bird, water and stone, wine and bread, and ourselves, mortal men, when we are enchanted.”
“Our spiritual life cannot be measured by success as the world measures it, but only by what God pours through us- and we cannot measure that at all”
“I fill up the well of stories in my head - without ever knowing I'm doing it.”
“Americans have always welcomed people of all backgrounds, religions, and races. It's a spirit of tolerance, now energized and amplified by the cult of multiculturalism.”
“And then, in that regal silence, finally - I began to meditate on (and with) God.”

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