Primordial Quotes
95 quotes by 75 authors
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We have simply arrived too late in the history of the universe to see this primordial simplicity easily ... But although the symmetries are hidden…
— Steven Weinberg
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The individual man, in introspecting the fact of his own consciousness, also discovers the primordial natural fact of his freedom: his freedom to choose, his…
— Murray Rothbard
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Rebirth is an affirmation that must be counted among the primordial affirmations of mankind. The concept of rebirth necessarily implies the continuity of personality. Here…
— Carl Jung
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Ultimately, Leibniz argued, there are only two absolutely simple concepts, God and Nothingness. From these, all other concepts may be constructed, the world, and everything…
— David Berlinski
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As all things eternal and primordial reappear, so all things mortal return to the earth. Honor, old age, probity, justice, constance, virtue, and gentleness are…
— Francis Quarles
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The primordial model of the family is to be sought in God himself, in the Trinitarian mystery of his life. The divine "We" is the…
— Pope John Paul II
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I'd always liked the idea that drama acts at its best as a kind of arena for debate, not just about the thing itself, but…
— Jeremy Northam
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My art is grounded in the belief of one universal energy which runs through everything: from insect to man, from man to spectre, from spectre…
— Ana Mendieta
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The primordial image, or archetype, is a figure--be it a daemon, a human being, or a process--that constantly recurs in the course of history and…
— Carl Jung
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The unsatisfied yearning of the artist reaches back to the primordial image in the unconscious which is best fitted to compensate the inadequacy and one-sidedness…
— Carl Jung
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The great problems of life—sexuality, of course, among others—are always related to the primordial images of the collective unconscious. These images are really balancing or…
— Carl Jung
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Color is life; for a world without color appears to us as dead. Colors are primordial ideas, the children of light.
— Johannes Itten
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Colors are primordial ideas, children of the aboriginal colorless light and its counterpart, colorless darkness Light, that first phenomenon of the world, reveals to us…
— Johannes Itten
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In true meditation the emphasis is on being awareness; not on being aware of objects, but on resting as primordial awareness itself. Primordial awareness is…
— Adyashanti
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While new rights are attributed to or indeed almost presumed by the individual, life is not always protected as the primary value and the primordial…
— Pope Francis
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Consequently, if my theory be true, it is indisputable that before the lowest Silurian stratum was deposited, long periods elapsed, as long as, or probably…
— Charles Darwin
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Smell is the primordial sense, more powerful, more primitive, more intimately tied to our memories and emotions than any other. A scent can trigger spiritual,…
— Donna Karan
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Things. Cosas. Things attach themselves like leeches to the human soul, then they bleed out the sweetness and the music and the primordial joy of…
— Tom Robbins
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When we cling to thoughts and memories, we are clinging to what cannot be grasped. When we touch these phantoms and let them go, we…
— Pema Chodron
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Poetry evokes out of words the resonance of the primordial world.
— Gerhart Hauptmann
Who Wrote These Primordial Quotes
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