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“The quality of life is in proportion, always, to the capacity for delight. The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.”
― The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
― The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
“Human needs arrange themselves in hierarchies of pre-potency. That is to say, the appearance of one need usually rests on the prior satisfaction of another, more pre-potent need. Man is a perpetually wanting animal. Also no need or drive can be treated as if it were isolated or discrete; every drive is related to the state of satisfaction or dissatisfaction of other drives. 8.”
― Hierarchy of Needs: A Theory of Human Motivation
― Hierarchy of Needs: A Theory of Human Motivation
“Both Barnum and H. L. Mencken are said to have made the depressing observation that no one ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the American public. The remark has worldwide application. But the lack is not in intelligence, which is in plentiful supply; rather, the scarce commodity is systematic training in critical thinking.”
― Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science
― Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science
“You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason. The limits of your ambition were, thus, expected to be set forever. You were born into a society which spelled out with brutal clarity, and in as many ways as possible, that you were a worthless human being. You are not expected to aspire to excellence: you were expected to make peace with mediocrity.”
― The Fire Next Time
― The Fire Next Time
“When your raison d’être stops being How can we hold to the principles of limited government and economic freedom? and becomes How can we hold on to this majority for one more cycle? then you’ve become the very thing that you’re supposed to be against. That corruption of the spirit opens the floodgates to actual corruption, and before long you have Congressman Cunningham giving his price list to lobbyists for “services rendered.”
― Conscience of a Conservative: A Rejection of Destructive Politics and a Return to Principle
― Conscience of a Conservative: A Rejection of Destructive Politics and a Return to Principle
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