"This kind of overall way of thinking is not only a fertile source of new theoretical ideas: it is needed for the human mind to function in a generally harmonious way, which could in turn help to make possible an orderly and stable society."

-- David Bohm

#Thinking Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Mind Quotes

“New York may be the city that never sleeps, but Shanghai doesn't even sit down, and not just because there is no room.”

Source : "Buy Shanghai! A city for sale" by Patricia Marx, www.newyorker.com. July 21, 2008.
“I'm obsessed with broccoli, carrots, celery, string beans, snap peas, black kale, brussels sprouts, cabbage - I could go on! They used to call me 'rabbit' when I was a kid. I hate mushrooms, though. I apologize to fungi lovers, but this way, there's more for you!”
“There is no secret so close as that between a rider and his horse.”

Source : 'Mr Sponge's Sporting Tour' (1853) ch. 31
“My summary of all our experiences was that it showed that heaven and hell are one place, and we all go there. To those who are prepared, it is heaven; to those who are not fit and ready, it is hell.”
“Israel should not feel satisfaction at my son's death, for he died on the battlefield, facing the conquerors as he wished, with a gun in his hand.”
“The existence of very pious feelings, in conjunction with intolerance, cruelty, and selfish policy, has never ceased to surprise and perplex those who have viewed it calmly from a distance. ... It is impossible to exaggerate the evil work theology has done in the world. What destruction of the beautiful monuments of past ages, what waste of life, what disturbance of domestic and social happiness, what perverted feelings, what blighted hearts, have always marked its baneful progress!”
“My father died when I was two years old. But my mother was quite capable. She raised three children with his war pension which was peanuts. Yet we did not want for anything. We grew up with a certain parsimony, which is a nice thing. Then if life gives you more good, otherwise you get used to. I'm still thrifty.”
“Self-confidence is inseparable from submission to the creedal order, and through that order, to the supreme authority expressed in that order. ... Deep individualism cannot exist except in relation to the highest authority. No inner discipline can operate without a charismatic institution, nor can such an institution survive without that supreme authority from a relation to whom self-confidence derives. Without an authority deeply installed, there is no foundation for individuality. Self-confidence thus expresses submission to supreme authority.”

You may also like:

Alain Aspect
Physicist
Albert Einstein
Theoretical Physicist
F. David Peat
Physicist
Fritjof Capra
Physicist
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Writer
John Stewart Bell
Physicist
Louis de Broglie
Physicist
Niels Bohr
Physicist
Rupert Sheldrake
Author