Centre Quote by Northrop Frye Download Open image “We do not live in a centred space any more, but have to create our own centres.” — Northrop Frye ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Centre Space
We do not live in centred space anymore, but have to create our own centres. — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Special things happen when you center people who haven't been centered before. — Nahnatchka Khan Copy Share Image
There's nothing at the center of what we do...No center. It doesn't exist. All of us-look at our lives: We have an acceptable level… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Each of us is merely one human being, merely an experiment, a way station. But each of us should be on the way toward… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
This is the contradictory desire in our utopia. We want to live in a small community with which we can identify and yet we… — Moshe Safdie Copy Share Image
Home is the dearest spot on earth, and it should be the centre, but not the boundary, of the affections. — Mary Baker Eddy Copy Share Image
In the contemporary world where things fall apart, and the centre cannot hold, you have to imagine a community where there is no centre.… — John Green Copy Share Image
To make one person the center of your world is bound to end in disaster. There are too many factors outside your control. — Alexandra Adornetto Copy Share Image
In truth, there is enormous space in which to live our everyday lives. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Home is the center of life. It's the wellspring of personhood. It's where we say we're ourselves. — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
We're not really in the real-estate space so much as we are the community-building space. — Miguel McKelvey Copy Share Image
I soon realized that a student of English literature who does not know the Bible does not understand a good deal of what is… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Our country has shown a lack of will to resist its own disintegration .. . Canada is practically the only country left in the… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
“The only thing that words can do with any real precision or accuracy is hang together. Accuracy of description in language is not possible… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
The bedrock of doubt is the total nothingness of death. Death is a leveler, not because everybody dies, but because nobody understands what death… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Physics is an organized body of knowledge about nature, and a student of it says that he is learning physics, not nature. Art, like… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Literature as a whole is not an aggregate of exhibits with red and blue ribbons attached to them, like a cat-show, but the range… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
One doesn't bother to believe the credible: the credible is believed already, by definition. There's no adventure of the mind. — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
“Tendintele autoritate ale conservatorismului trebuie corectate prin mituri ale libertatii, in vreme ce un simt conservator al ordinii trebuie sa tempereze tendintele liberalismului spre… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Literature is a human apocalypse, man's revelation to man, and criticism is not a body of adjudications, but the awareness of that revelation, the… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
“The particular myth that's been organizing this talk, and in a way the whole series, is the story of the Tower of Babel in the Bible. The civilization we live in at present is a gigantic technological structure, a skyscraper almost high enough to reach the moon. It looks like a single world-wide effort, but it's really a deadlock of… — Northrop Frye Copy Share
Plant flowers in others' gardens and your life becomes a bouquet! Submitted by Lisa Letto, Coordinator, Nutrition Resource and Volunteer Centre, College of Pharmacy… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
The problem was Le Corbusier was a genius and an enormous artist, but he tried to resolve problems to which there is no solution.… — Leon Krier Copy Share Image
The entire hierarchy of angels can best be described as an endlessly vast sphere of beings, who surround an unknowable centre-point, which is called… — Malcolm Godwin Copy Share Image
In order to the attaining of all useful knowledge this is most necessary, that we fear God; we are not qualified to profit by the instructions that are given us unless our minds be possessed with a holy reverence of God, and every thought within us be brought into obedience to Him… As all our knowledge must take rise from… — Matthew Henry Copy Share
Memory that yearns to join the centre, a limb remembering the body from which it has been severed, like those bamboo thighs of the… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
[The Utopia of Rules] should offer a challenge to us all. Should we just accept this bureaucracy as inevitable? Or is there a way… — Gillian Tett Copy Share Image
An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left, Soft Left, Hard Right, Soft Right and Centre. I am… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
A person who is able to be a living centre of peace in today's world and who is able to radiate that peace powerfully,… — Roberto Assagioli Copy Share Image
There is a book called San Francisco Tape Music Centre:1960s Counterculture and the Avant-Garde and this book describes everything that you want to know or don't want to know about it, with a lot of documentation. — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share
In the humanist ideal, the mainstream is where interesting debate, the generating of new ideas and creativity take place. In rational society this mainstream… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image