"In a well-run mental household there ought to be a thorough cleaning at the threshold of consciousness a few times a year."

-- Karl Kraus

#Running Quotes #Years Quotes #Cleaning Quotes

“Liberals and leftists have been dismissing inconvenient facts by attacking motives for generations. In the 1930s, '40s, and '50s, Soviet spies and abettors attacked the motives of their accusers because the fact of their guilt was undeniable. In the 1960s, over a thousand psychiatrists who'd never even met Barry Goldwater signed a petition saying the GOP candidate was too mentally unstable to be president.”
“And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.”

Source : John Steinbeck (2001). “Novels, 1942-1952”
“I grew up on musicals, and I know they are quite the thing now, but I'm actually a little indignant, because I started taking singing lessons years ago - I put the time in!”
“Back in the '70s when my friends in California were at Berkeley, in-state tuition was around $700 a year.”
“We buy them (books) as our budget allows. But eighth grade has four trade books (individual-title books), and you have time to do more than that during the school year.”
“History is never antiquated, because humanity is always fundamentally the same.”

Source : Walter Rauschenbusch (2009). “Christianity and the Social Crisis in the 21st Century: The Classic That Woke Up the Church”, p.1, Harper Collins
“No one at this time can duly estimate the importance of Mrs Marcet's scientific works.”

Source : Mary Somerville (2010). “Queen Of Science”, p.92, Canongate Books
“Vedanta teaches that consciousness is singular, all happenings are played out in one universal consciousness and there is no multiplicity of selves The stages of human development are to strive for Possession (Artha), Knowledge (Dharma), Ability (Kama), Being (Moksha) Nirvana is a state of pure blissful knowledge. It has nothing to do with individual. The ego or its separation is an illusion. The goal of man is to preserve his Karma and to develop it further â€“ when man dies his karma lives and creates for itself another carrier.”

Source : "My View of the World" by Erwin Schrodinger, (Ch, 5), 1961.

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