History Quote by Jacques Ellul

“All conscious nature has experiences of pleasure and pain. Man alone can deliberately will the repetition of an experience. And repetition, experienced as such,…

— Owen Barfield

“Life: It is better not to wrap philosophy around such an inconceivable evolving beautiful mystery. If based on perception, alone; whatever the conclusion -…

— T.F. Hodge

A related recurring theme is the exploration of how we take for granted the things in our immediate environment that are common and ordinary.…

— Vera Nazarian

Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery.

— Henry Miller

Without claiming to be exhaustive, I maintain that every philosophy reproduces within itself, in one way or another, the conflict in which it finds…

— Louis Althusser

Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.

— Earl Nightingale

Philosophy is the self-correction by consciousness of its own initial excess of subjectivity.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Of all the endless variety of phenomena which nature presents to our senses, there is none that fills our minds with greater wonder than…

— Nikola Tesla

Things repeat themselves.

— Nico

People tend to set themselves up in patterns; something happens, it hurts them, then something similar happens, and - it's happened again! It seems…

— Mary Gaitskill

The process of illusion & disillusionment is part of life and goes on endlessly.

— Nelson Mandela

We are creatures of story, and the process of changing one mind or the whole world must begin with 'Once upon a time.'

— Jonathan Gottschall