Systems Quotes

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The crash of the whole solar and stellar systems could only kill you once. — Thomas Carlyle
One's own free and unfettered volition, one's own caprice, however wild, one's own fancy, inflamed sometimes to the point of madness - that is the… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
The world is ruled by neither justice nor morality; crime is not punished nor virtue rewarded, one is forgotten as quickly as the other. The… — Tadeusz Borowski
One challenge of our adventure on earth is to rise above dead systems...wars, nations, destructions...to refuse to be a part of them, and express the… — Richard Bach
This is the awe-inspiring universe of magic: There are no atoms, only waves and motions all around. Here, you discard all belief in barriers to… — Frank Herbert
If the future is to remain open and free, we need people who can tolerate the unknown, who will not need the support of completely… — Margaret Mead
I mean what they and their hired psychiatrists call delusional systems. Needless to say, â€˜delusionsâ€™ are always officially defined. We do not have to worry… — Thomas Pynchon
But I realized something. About art. And psychiatry. They're both self-perpetuating systems. Like religion. All three of them promise you a sense of inner worth… — Samuel R. Delany
Narrow minds devoid of imagination. Intolerance, theories cut off from reality, empty terminology, usurped ideals, inflexible systems. Those are the things that really frighten me.… — Haruki Murakami
This is what rituals are for. We do spiritual ceremonies as human beings in order to create a safe resting place for our most complicated… — Elizabeth Gilbert
In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering among innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which clever animals invented… — Friedrich Nietzsche
What was the self-sacrifice?" I jettisoned half of a much-loved and I think irreplaceable pair of shoes." Why was that self-sacrifice?" Because they were mine!"… — Douglas Adams
...the basic stuff of the universe, at its core, is looking like a kind of pure energy that is malleable to human intention and expectation… — James Redfield
Of all the systems of religion that ever were invented, there is no more derogatory to the Almighty, more unedifying to man, more repugnant to… — Thomas Paine
Living systems are never in equilibrium. They are inherently unstable. They may seem stable, but theyâ€™re not. Everything is moving and changing. In a sense,… — Michael Crichton
The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a patter… — Bruce Lee
It occurs to me to wonder: do I believe in any god, or even positively not believe, as James does? I believe in systems and… — Emma Bull
The amazing thing is that chaotic systems don't always stay chaotic," Ben said, leaning on the gate. "Sometimes they spontaneously reorganize themselves into an orderly… — Connie Willis
Beginning with Santa Claus as a cognitive exercise, a child is encouraged to share the same idea of reality as his peers. Even if that… — Chuck Palahniuk
For what are myths if not the imposing of order on phenomena that do not possess order in themselves? And all myths, however they differ… — Stanislaw Lem

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