Conditioned Quotes

224 quotes by 191 authors

Sitting quietly, doing nothing, not knowing what is next and not concerned with what was or what may be next, a new mind is operating… — Toni Packer
The point I'm trying to make is, I'm really quite neutral. I have not been conditioned. — John Lone
When a child keeps asking you to tell him/her a story, what they instinctively really want to know -- is their true purpose and mission… — Suzy Kassem
It is taught, we too can be enlightened, every one of us. We can be completely freed from the bonds of limitation and conditioned confusion… — Sharon Salzberg
Find a gap between a trigger event and our usual conditioned response to it and by using that pause to collect ourselves and shift our… — Sharon Salzberg
We have been conditioned to see the passing of time as an adversary. — Menachem Mendel Schneerson
You can't make flivers without steel - and you can't make tragedies without social instability. The world's stable now. People are happy; they get what… — Aldous Huxley
(Propaganda) proceeds by psychological manipulations, character modifications, by creation of stereotypes useful when the time comes - The two great routes that this sub-propaganda takes… — Jacques Ellul
Our brains are so conditioned through education, through religion, to think we are separate entities with separate souls and so on. We are not individuals… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Men, being conditioned badly, are always feeling nooses closing around their necks, even dumpy boors no girl would take on a bet. — Cynthia Heimel
A philosopher of imposing stature doesn't think in a vacuum. Even his most abstract ideas are, to some extent, conditioned by what is or is… — Alfred North Whitehead
America has been conditioned to think of pasta as the never-ending pasta bowl and Olive Garden. — Joe Bastianich
Barefooted workers would take apart, bit by bit, the dying ships with their bare hands, shipyard in Gaddani, Pakistan. On their shoulders, workers bore great… — G.M.B. Akash
When you undergo a visionary experience, what you are really doing is blowing your socially conditioned, 20th century, hive mind and allowing your brain to,… — Steve Kubby
The decay of decency in the modern age, the rebellion against law and good faith, the treatment of human beings as things, as the mere… — Walter Lippmann
Man can be conditioned to behave in almost every desired way; but only "almost. — Erich Fromm
Our brains are no longer conditioned for reverence and awe. We cannot imagine a Second Coming that would not be cut down to size by… — John Updike
What is dangerous about tranquillizers is that whatever peace of mind they bring is a packaged peace of mind. Where you buy a pill and… — Max Lerner
Unable to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge: from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity: raw… — Lewis Mumford
Organized Christianity has always represented immortality as a sort of common heritage; but I never could see why spiritual life should not be conditioned on… — Albert J. Nock

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