Art Quote by Samuel Beckett

Hereditary property sophisticates the mind, and the unfortunate victims to it ... swathed from their birth, seldom exert the locomotive faculty of body or…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

A clamor for 'family values' requires deliberate blindness to the abuses that occur within families.

— Bob Allen

This is the great object held out by this association; and the means of attaining it is illumination, enlightening the understanding by the sun…

— Adam Weishaupt

“Objectivity is a subjective fantasy implanted in us by an external will seeking to curtail our creativity by limiting our minds to our own…

— Sol Luckman

“[To think for oneself] is the maxim of a reason never passive. The tendency to such passivity, and therefore to heteronomy of reason, is…

— Immanuel Kant

A family has its own rituals and its own superstitions.

— Tea Obreht

In the one instance, the dreamerloses sight of this object in a wilderness of deductions and suggestionsuntilhe finds the incitamentum, or first cause of…

— Edgar Allan Poe

It belongs to every large nature, when it is not under the immediate power of some strong unquestioning emotion, to suspect itself, and doubt…

— George Eliot

“when something breaks the cause-and-effect pattern we've come to expect — when we encounter something outside the norm — we suddenly become aware of…

— Nir Eyal

We create in people through our actions and example. In this way people around us become reflections of our own behavioral patterns and internal…

— Anonymous

It is only when we possess ourselves that we can give ourselves to others. If what we possess feels wrong, bad, or wicked, then…

— Jack Dominian

Anything you are exclusively attached to & identify with ends up distorting & limiting awareness.

— Ken Wilber