"Why did children seem to be so often……" — Luke Rhinehart
"Why did children seem to be so often spontaneous, joy-filled and concentrated while adults seemed controlled, anxiety-filled and diffused? It was the Goddam sense of having a self."
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13 Quotes by Luke Rhinehart
Luke Rhinehart has 13 quotes on this site.
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Patterns are prostitution to the patter of parents.
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Man must become comfortable in flowing from one role to another, one set of values to another, one life to…
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I hated myself and the world because I had failed to face and accept the limitations of my self and…
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To change man, the audience by which he judges himself must be changed. A man is defined by his audience:…
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We are blind to the worlds within us, waiting to be born.
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Life is islands of ecstasy in an ocean of ennui, and after the age of thirty land is seldom seen.
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Give up all hope, all illusion, all desire..I've tried. I've tried and still I desire, I still desire not to…
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There is something fundamentally wrong with the way we normally live our lives and we'd sort of like to find…
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In 1965, I was teaching a seminar on freedom when I told my students that the ultimate freedom lay in…
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The thing the Buddhists and the Sufis have in common is a belief that religious certainties are destructive.
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Those who believe that they have absolute truth and the only moral system are destructive both to themselves and to…
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I am George Cockcroft. But when I come to England or Europe, where the name Luke Rhinehart is better known,…
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Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
— Margaret Atwood
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Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.
— Margaret Atwood
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I grew up in a family that was multifaceted, sexually oriented, and pretty much open to everything. And because I…
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I was raised on government cheese. As an adult, in my first marriage, my husband and I worked real hard…
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When you're young, you're always wondering when you're actually going to feel like a grownup. And I think you probably…
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If you want your kids to listen to you, don't yell at them. Whisper. Make them lean in. My kids…
— Mario Batali
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There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the…
— Jean Baudrillard
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What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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The average adult laughs 15 times a day; the average child, more than 400 times.
— Martha Beck
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Children who assume adult responsibilities feel old when they're young.
— Martha Beck
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Only since the Industrial Revolution have most people worked in places away from their homes or been left to raise…
— Martha Beck
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An Adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelties.
— Pope Benedict XVI
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