"If the awareness of our limitations begins to limit or to dim our value consciousness as wellâ€”as happens, for instance, in old age with regard to the values of youthâ€”then we have already started the movement of devaluation which will end with the defamation of the world and all its values. Only a timely act of resignation can deliver us from this tendency toward self-delusion."

Source : Max Scheler, Harold J. Bershady (1992). “On Feeling, Knowing, and Valuing: Selected Writings”, p.126, University of Chicago Press

Max Scheler

#Self Quotes #Age Quotes #Movement Quotes

“When a man cannot chose, he ceases to be a man.”

Source : "A Clockwork Orange". Book by Anthony Burgess, 1962.
“I have a real passion for children. I always wanted to teach and only became an athlete because my parents told my brother Parenthesis and me that we should use any God-given talent we had.”

Source : "Gail Devers: 'A girl asked what was wrong with me. She said I looked like a monster'". Interview with Jamie Jackson, www.theguardian.com. April 1, 2007.
“Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?”

Source : E. T. A. Hoffmann (2015). “Old and New Church Music (Fantasy and Horror Classics)”, p.12, Read Books Ltd
“A box of crayons and a big sheet of paper provides a more expressive medium for kids than computerized paint programs.”
“To be one of God's lilies means an interior abandonment of the rarest kind. It means that we are to be infinitely passive, and yet infinitely active also; passive as regards self and its workings, active as regards attention and response to God. It is very hard to explain this so as to be understood But it means that we must lay down all the activity of the creature, as such, and must let only the activities of God work in us, and through us, and by us. Self must step aside, to let God work.”
“I had written lyrics to a song called The Silent Extreme, which Alex later renamed Humans Being.”
“There's absolutely no reason for NATO to be sticking its fingers up the nostrils of Russia at every orifice. I mean, it's absurd. It's absolutely absurd.”
“Fold the worst events of your life into a narrative of triumph.”

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