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Post by Tamrin on Mar 4, 2014 7:37:32 GMT 10
I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it
Tact and diplomacy are fine in international relations, in politics, perhaps even in business; in science only one thing matters, and that is the facts
If the truth contradicts deeply held beliefs, that is too bad
In our tabulation of psychoanalytic results, we have classed those who stopped treatment together with those not improved. This appears to be reasonable; a patient who fails to finish his treatment, and is not improved, is surely a therapeutic failure
They show that roughly two-thirds of a group of neurotic patients will recover or improve to a marked extent within about two years of the onset of their illness, whether they are treated by means of psychotherapy or not
In general, certain conclusions are possible from these data. They fail to prove that psychotherapy, Freudian or otherwise, facilitates the recovery of neurotic patients
There thus appears to be an inverse correlation between recovery and psychotherapy; the more psychotherapy, the smaller the recovery rateHans EysenckBritish-German psychologist (Born this day 1916) My hatred of Hitler and the Nazis, and all they stood for, was so overwhelming that no argument could counter it
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Post by Tamrin on Mar 4, 2014 7:40:14 GMT 10
We shall be judged by what we do, not by how we felt while we were doing it
How far should one accept the rules of the society in which one lives? To put it another way: at what point does conformity become corruption? Only by answering such questions does the conscience truly define itself
A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you're keeping
The man who reacts to the universe with a cry of impotent anguish is acceptable as an artist only if he can persuade us that he has sanely considered the other possible reactions and found them inadequate
I attacked those Western playwrights who use their influence and affluence to preach to the world the nihilistic doctrine that life is pointless and irrationally destructive, and that there is nothing we can do about it. Until everyone is fed, clothed, housed and taught, until human beings have equal leisure to contemplate the overwhelming fact of mortality, we should not (I argued) indulge in the luxury of "privileged despair"
Any country that has sexual censorship will eventually have political censorship
I hope I never need to believe in God. It would be an awful confession of failureKenneth TynanBritish author and theatre critic ( Tynan Right and Left) (Born this day 1927) A good many inconveniences attend playgoing in any large city, but the greatest of them is usually the play itself
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Post by Tamrin on Mar 4, 2014 7:41:10 GMT 10
I still don't know why they banned me. I said to them, 'What did I do? I never killed anybody. I was never arrested for anything bad, so why can't I go home?
Everybody now admits that apartheid was wrong, and all I did was tell the people who wanted to know where I come from how we lived in South Africa. I just told the world the truth. And if my truth then becomes political, I can't do anything about that
I look at an ant and l see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit
I look at a stream and I see myself: a native South African, flowing irresistibly over hard obstacles until they become smooth and, one day, disappear — flowing from an origin that has been forgotten toward an end that will never be
Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being
People in the United States still have a 'Tarzan' movie view of Africa. That's because in the movies all you see are jungles and animals... We [too] watch television and listen to the radio and go to dances and fall in love
Age is getting to know all the ways the world turns, so that if you cannot turn the world the way you want, you can at least, get out of the way so you won't get run overMiriam Makeba (“Mama Africa”)South African singer and civil rights activist (Born this day 1932) But if you are going to wear blinders then you do not know the world
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Post by Tamrin on Mar 4, 2014 7:42:00 GMT 10
The greatest danger to our future is apathy
Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference
Especially now when views are becoming more polarized, we must work to understand each other across political, religious and national boundaries
Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don't believe is right
Lasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is all right, as long your values don't change
Chimpanzees have given me so much. The long hours spent with them in the forest have enriched my life beyond measure. What I have learned from them has shaped my understanding of human behavior, of our place in nature
Researchers find it very necessary to keep blinkers on. They don't want to admit that the animals they are working with have feelings. They don't want to admit that they might have minds and personalities because that would make it quite difficult for them to do what they do; so we find that within the lab communities there is a very strong resistance among the researchers to admitting that animals have minds, personalities and feelingsJane van Lawick-GoodallBritish ethologist and chimp expert (1974 Walker Prize) (Born this day 1934) The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves
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Post by Tamrin on Mar 4, 2014 7:44:20 GMT 10
I have learned, as a rule of thumb, never to ask whether you can do something. Say, instead, that you are doing it. Then fasten your seat belt. The most remarkable things follow
I honor my importance and the importance of others. None of us is dispensable, none of us is replacable. In the chorus of life each of us brings a True Note, a perfect pitch that adds to the harmony of the whole. I act creatively and consciously to actively endorse and encourage the expansion of those whose lives I touch. Believing in the goodness of each, I add to the goodness of all. We bless each other even in passing
Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us that nothing we do will ever be good enough — that we should try again
Creativity — like human life itself — begins in darkness. We need to acknowledge this. All too often, we think only in terms of light: "And then the lightbulb went on and I got it!" It is true that insights may come to us as flashes. It is true that some of these flashes may be blinding. It is, however, also true that such bright ideas are preceded by a gestation period that is interior, murky, and completely necessary
Life is a creative endeavor. It is active, not passive. We are the yeast that leavens our lives into rich, fully baked loaves. When we experience our lives as flat and lackluster, it is our con- sciousness that is at fault. We hold the inner key that turns our lives from thankless to fruitful
Anger is meant to be acted on. It is not meant to be acted out. Anger points the direction. We are meant to use anger as fuel to take the actions we need to move where our anger points us. With a little thought, we can usually translate the message that our anger is sending us
The growth of one blesses all. I am committed to grow in love. All that I touch, I leave in love. I move through this world consciously and creativelyJulia CameronAmerican teacher, author, artist, poet and filmmaker ( The Artist's Way) (Born this day 1948) Nothing dies harder than a bad idea
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Post by Tamrin on Mar 4, 2014 7:45:17 GMT 10
If you can bring nothing to this place but your carcass, keep out
It is almost impossible to state what one in fact believes, because it is almost impossible to hold a belief and to define it at the same time
It is not what you say that matters but the manner in which you say it; there lies the secret of the ages
Times change and forms and their meanings alter. Thus new poems are necessary. Their forms must be discovered in the living language of their day, or old forms, embodying exploded concepts, will tyrannize over the imagination
Afraid lest he be caught up in a net of words tripped up, bewildered and so defeated — thrown aside — a man hesitates to write down his innermost convictions
Forget all rules, forget all restrictions, as to taste, as to what ought to be said, write for the pleasure of it — whether slowly or fast — every form of resistance to a complete release should be abandoned
If they give you lined paper, write the other wayWilliam Carlos WilliamsUS physician/poet (Died this day 1963) Sleep! There is hunting in heaven — Sleep safe till tomorrow
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Post by Tamrin on Mar 5, 2014 5:31:48 GMT 10
Wednesday’s Quotes:Will you come with me, sweet Reader? I thank you. Give me your hand
You who so plod amid serious things that you feel it shame to give yourself up even for a few short moments to mirth and joyousness in the land of Fancy; you who think that life hath not to do with innocent laughter that can harm no one; these pages are not for you
The stories of childhood leave an indelible impression, and their author always has a niche in the temple of memory from which the image is never cast out to be thrown on the rubbish heap of things that are outgrown and outlived
Project your mind into your subject until you actually live in it
He who jumps for the moon and gets it not leaps higher than he who stoops for a penny in the mud
The student learns rules but all the rules in the world never make a picture
So passed the seasons then, so they pass now, and so they will pass in time to come, while we come and go like leaves of the tree that fall and are soon forgottenHoward PyleAmerican illustrator and author (King Arthur, Pirates, Robin Hood, etc.) (Born this day 1853) What is done is done; and the cracked egg cannot be cured
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Post by Tamrin on Mar 5, 2014 5:35:30 GMT 10
Chess is a form of intellectual productiveness, therein lies, its peculiar charm. Intellectual productiveness is one of the greatest joys — if not the greatest one — of human existence
I have always a slight feeling of pity for the man who has no knowledge of chess, just as I would pity for the man who has no knowledge of love. Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make men happy
What is the object of playing a gambit opening? ... To acquire a reputation of being a dashing player at the cost of losing a game
Chess is a terrible game. If you have no center, your opponent has a freer position. If you do have a center, then you really have something to worry about!
When you don’t know what to play, wait for an idea to come into your opponent’s mind. You may be sure that idea will be wrong
One doesn't have to play well, it's enough to play better than your opponent.
Before the endgame, the Gods have placed the middle gameSiegbert TarraschPrussian chess master ( The Game of Chess) (Born this day 1862) I look one move ahead ... the best!
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Post by Tamrin on Mar 5, 2014 5:37:20 GMT 10
Freedom only for the members of the government, only for the members of the Party – though they are quite numerous – is no freedom at all. Freedom is always the freedom of dissenters. The essence of political freedom depends not on the fanatics of 'justice', but rather on all the invigorating, beneficial and detergent effects of dissenters. If 'freedom becomes 'privilege', the workings of political freedom are broken
The modern proletarian class doesn't carry out its struggle according to a plan set out in some book or theory; the modern workers' struggle is a part of history, a part of social progress, and in the middle of history, in the middle of progress, in the middle of the fight, we learn how we must fight
What is our task in the question of peace? It does not consist merely in vigorously demonstrating at all times the love of peace of the Social Democrats; but first and foremost our task is to make clear to the masses of people the nature of milit- arism and sharply and clearly to bring out the differences in principle between the standpoint of the Social Democrats and that of the bourgeois peace enthusiasts
The friends of peace in bourgeois circles believe that world peace and disarmament can be realised within the frame-work of the present social order, whereas we, who base ourselves on the materialistic conception of history and on scientific socialism, are convinced that mil- itarism can only be abolished from the world with the destruction of the capitalist class state
Plausible as the idea of the United States of Europe as a peace arrangement may seem to some at first glance, it has on closer examination not the least thing in common with the method of thought and the standpoint of social democracy… At the present stage of development of the world market and of world economy, the conception of Europe as an isolated economic unit is a sterile concoction of the brain. Europe no more forms a special unit within world economy than does Asia or America
The leadership has failed. Even so, the leadership can and must be recreated from the masses and out of the masses
Bourgeois class domination is undoubtedly an historical necessity, but, so too, the rising of the working class against itRosa LuxemburgPolish-born German Marxist theorist, socialist philosopher and revolutionary (Born this day 1871) Marxism is a revolutionary worldview that must always struggle for new revelations. Marxism must abhor nothing so much as the possibility that it becomes congealed in its current form. It is at its best when butting heads in self-criticism, and in historical thunder and lightning, it retains its strength
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Post by Tamrin on Mar 5, 2014 5:38:18 GMT 10
Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens
The state is or can be master of money, but in a free society it is master of very little else
Social security must be achieved by co-operation between the State and the individual. The State should offer security for service and contribution. The State in organising security should not stifle incentive, opportunity, responsibility ; in establishing a national minimum, it should leave room and encouragement for voluntary action by each individual to provide more than that minimum for himself and his family
Organisation of social insurance should be treated as one part only of a comprehensive policy of social progress. Social insurance fully developed may provide income security; it is an attack upon Want. But Want is one only of five giants on the road of reconstruction and in some ways the easiest to attack. The others are Disease, Ignorance, Squalor and Idleness
The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of common man
The trouble in modern democracy is that men do not approach to leadership until they have lost the desire to lead anyone
Any proposals for the future, while they should use to the full the experience gathered in the past, should not be restricted by consideration of sectional interests established in the obtaining of that experience. Now, when the war is abolishing landmarks of every kind, is the opportunity for using experience in a clear field. A revolutionary moment in the world’s history is a time for revolutions, not for patchingWilliam Beveridge, 1st Baron Beveridge KCBBritish socialist economist and social reformer (Born this day 1879) Not only the worst of my sins, but the best of my duties speak me a child of Adam
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