Degradation Quote by Daniel Pinchbeck

The more we become civilized, the more we simultaneously understand our need to be virtuous and our need to understand our experiences on a…

— Nicolas Winding Refn

I am convinced that the deepest desire within each of us is to be liberated from the controlling influences of our own psychic madness…

— Caroline Myss

The individual is denuded of everything but appetites, desires, and tastes, wrenched from any context of human obligation or commitment. It is a process…

— Jeremy Seabrook

“This is theory’s acute dilemma: that desire expresses itself most fully where only those absorbed in its delights and torments are present, that it…

— Joan Cocks

“Assimilate ubiquitously. Doublethink. To deliberately believe in lies, while knowing they're false. Examples of this in everyday life: "oh, I need to be pretty…

— Henry Barthes

The path of self-purification is hard and steep. One has to become absolutely passion-free in thought, speech and action to rise above the opposing…

— Mahatma Gandhi

The struggle of the mind to keep itself free from every sort of bondage -- to remain curious, open, unsatiated in all its relations…

— Gardner Murphy

“As individuals, we experience ourselves as the center of whatever social world we inhabit. We think that we are free and refuse to see…

— Andrea Dworkin

The difficult part of the process is the long exploration and discovery of your own soul and living with the results.

— Mike Svob

“In this world, where the strong prey upon the weak, and the cunning manipulate the naive, it is imperative that you become the master…

— Kevin L. Michel

“It is the tendency of the so-called primitive mind to animate its environment. Modern depth psychology has requested us for years to withdraw these…

— Philip K. Dick

“To the extent that we believe we can skip steps, avoid the process, magically gain power through political connections or easy formulas, or depend…

— Robert Greene