"Either the conscious intellect is impotent, or is not sufficiently strong, or is not the factor positively connected with altruistic phenomenon generally or their sublime form particularly."

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Source : "The Reconstruction of Humanity" by Pitirim Sorokin, Beacon Press (p. 330), 1948.

Pitirim Sorokin

#Strong Quotes #Sublime Quotes #Conscious Quotes

“Radio has always been pictures of the mind; for me, the essence of radio has always been voices that talk to me and don't patronise me.”
“Never break a Muslim's heart by refusing what he offers you, when you know that anything that comes to you through him is in reality from Allah, and he is only His powerless and compelled means.”
“Some people have a tendency to get knocked down in this business and sulk and whine, and they just create a rod for their back, really. You have to have broad shoulders and get through it.”
“The principal task is to put spiritual foundations under both our child's life and our own. This triggers a shift in the elemental way in which we relate to our children, with the result that their behavior automatically falls in line as they become aware of, and true to, who they really are. Behavioral changes are an outgrowth of a shift in the relationship.”
“I would rather be a fairly happy wife and mother.”

Source : Mary MacLane (2014). “Human Days: A Mary MacLane Reader”, p.129, Petrarca Press
“Everyday life is like programming, I guess. If you love something you can put beauty into it.”
“As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property.”
“There is love in me the likes of which you've never seen. There is rage in me the likes of which should never escape. If I am not satisfied int he one, I will indulge the other.”

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