Anatol Rapoport Quotes

It is one thing to say that the dwelling has symbolic and cosmological aspects... and another to say that it has been erected for ritual purposes and is neither shelter nor dwelling but a temple.

Anatol Rapoport

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• To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.

  

  Barbara Tuchman
  • Food
  • Muse
  • Shelter

• The temple is a place of worship. Reverence is a supernal form of worship. It is the form of worship found in the celestial kingdom.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
  • Place
  • Temple
  • Celestial

• I'm hoping one day to open my own shelter. I would be the person with the three-legged dog. I just love animals more than people; I really do.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • People
  • Person
  • Animals

• But in Japan, there's nothing like that, since the temple is made of wood. The divine spirit inside the building is eternal, so the enclosure doesn't have to be.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • Building
  • Wood
  • Temple

• The human voice deployed to recite the Vedas and later aid the temple dancers was paramount before any instruments emerged.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Voice
  • Temple
  • Dancers

• Your body is a temple, whether you're a Jew or not.

  

  April Winchell
  • Body
  • Jew
  • Temple

• In a temple everything should be serious except the thing that is being worshiped.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Serious
  • Thing
  • Temple

• If you're into architecture and you're from the West, everything is hors d'oeuvres for working to rebuild the Temple. Ultimately you're led there. You can't escape it.

  

  Ben Nicholson
  • Architecture
  • Escape
  • Temple

• If we do overcome linear time, I would hope this means dwelling more directly in the fertility of the imagination rather than denying it, as some aspects of Buddhism seem to.

  

  Quentin S. Crisp
  • Time
  • Hope
  • Mean

• I laugh when I hear that the fish in the water is thirsty. You wander restlessly from forest to forest while the Reality is within your own dwelling.

  

  Kabir
  • Reality
  • Water
  • Forest

• If I were ever stranded on a desert island, there would be 3 things I’d need: food, shelter, and a grip.

  

  George C. Scott
  • Needs
  • Desert
  • Islands

• If you're asked: What is the silence? Respond: It is the first stone of the Wisdom's temple.

  

  Pythagoras
  • Stone
  • Temple
  • Wisdom`s

• In dwelling, be close to the land. In meditation, go deep in the heart.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Heart
  • Meditation
  • Dwelling

• In dwelling, be close to the land. In meditation, go deep in the heart. In dealing with others, be gentle and kind. In speech, be true. In ruling, be just. In daily life, be competent. In action, be aware of the time and the season.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Meditation
  • Season
  • Dwelling

• There's never a villain dwelling in all Denmark But he's an arrant knave.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Villain
  • Dwelling
  • Knaves

• Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man's the workman in it.

  

  Ivan Turgenev
  • Nature
  • Temple
  • Workshop

• You gotta constantly purify yourself, living in the city, around human beings. There might be people close to you who affect you inside yourself in such a corrupt way that it screws with your ability to do what you do. But if you make sure that the people who are close you are good people who are there for you and love you, you can create your temple everywhere you go.

  

  John Anthony Frusciante Ataxia
  • Good
  • Way
  • City

• My favoured temple is an humble heart.

  

  Philip James Bailey
  • Heart
  • Humble
  • Temple

• Sometimes I come across a tree which seems like Buddha or Jesus: loving, compassionate, still, unambitious, enlightened, in eternal meditation, giving pleasure to a pilgrim, shade to a cow, berries to a bird, beauty to its surroundings, health to its neighbors, branches for the fire, leaves for the soil, asking nothing in return, in total harmony with the wind and the rain. How much can I learn from a tree? The tree is my church, the tree is my temple, the tree is my mantra, the tree is my poem and my prayer.

  

  Satish Kumar
  • Jesus
  • Pleasure
  • Harmony

• Come and trip it as ye go On the light fantastic toe.

  

  John Milton

• A lot of technologies in the world were unusual in the beginning, and became standard. That's the beauty of bottom-up entrepreneurship and innovations.

  

  Iqbal Quadir
  • Up
  • World
  • Beginning

• I don't think I'm a great actress. I think I can act or I can react. Coming from a musical background and being a dramatic singer and writer, when I write stuff I really feel it. So I sing it like it comes from here. That's how I do the acting.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Musical

• It is one thing to say that the dwelling has symbolic and cosmological aspects... and another to say that it has been erected for ritual purposes and is neither shelter nor dwelling but a temple.

  

  Anatol Rapoport
  • Temple
  • Shelter
  • Dwelling