"While all societies make their own imaginaries (institutions, laws, traditions, beliefs and behaviors), autonomous societies are those that their members are aware of this fact, and explicitly self-institute (Î±Ï…Ï„Î¿-Î½Î¿Î¼Î¿ÏÎ½Ï„Î±Î¹). In contrast, the members of heteronomous societies attribute their imaginaries to some extra-social authority (i.e. God, ancestors, historical necessity)"

-- Cornelius Castoriadis

#Self Quotes #Law Quotes #Historical Quotes

“The liveness of theater, and the excitement of experiencing it alongside an audience, is something you can't get at home. That makes the theater more vital than ever. It's definitely expensive, but I have faith that the market will keep recognizing the live experience as a valuable and important one.”
“If any speak ill of thee, flee home to thy own conscience, and examine thy heart: if thou be guilty, it is a just correction; if not guilty, it is a fair instruction: make use of both; so shalt thou distil honey out of gall, and out of an open enemy create a secret friend.”

Source : Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.76
“Love makes you do strange things...”
“The fish is swift, small-needing, vague yet clear, A cold, sweet, silver life, wrapped in round waves...”
“If you say that getting the money is the most important thing, you'll spend your life completely wasting your time. You'll be doing things you don't like doing in order to go on living, that is to go on doing thing you don't like doing, which is stupid.”

Source : Marie Lu (2011). “Legend”, p.136, Penguin
“Our Heavenly Father is aware of our needs and will help us as we call upon Him for assistance.Â I believe that no concern of ours is too small or insignificant.Â The Lord is in the details of our lives.”
“Today I'm out wandering, turning my skull into a cup for others to drink wine from. In this town somewhere there sits a calm, intelligent man, who doesn't know what he's about to do!”
“Time and again weâ€™ve seen that reducing poverty comes down to economic opportunity-not just connecting the poor to services like banking, but ensuring they can be producers on fair terms in the global economy.”

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