Eric Voegelin Quotes

The course of history as a whole is no object of experience; history has no eidos, because the course of history extends into the unknown future.

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• Homophobia is rampant in soccer, probably more so than in any other sport. I'm not sure why.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Why
  • More
  • Soccer

• If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • May
  • Home
  • You

• The fact is, society is made more hospitable by every individual who acts as if 'do unto others' really was a rule.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Society
  • Individual
  • Others

• The idea of going on tour for the rest of my life with old works is not that exciting. As an artist I definitely think the work in future is going to be better than the work in the past, otherwise why do it?

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Life
  • Work
  • Why

• I never mind talking about my dad. I'm proud of who he is, and being his son is one of the things I'm most proud of. To be constantly compared to someone so brilliant, who happens to be your dad, is cool.

  

  Rafe Spall
  • Mind
  • Dad
  • Proud

• Seriously, who doesn't want to slap a 27-year-old movie star?

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Movie
  • Want
  • Star

• Whenever someone says the word community, I want to reach for an oxygen mask.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Want
  • Community
  • Mask

• I get into all sorts of trouble with my publicists and with newspapers because I won't do photographs.

  

  M. J. Hyland
  • Trouble
  • Because
  • Get

• The experience of poetry could bring my mother back to me. Poetry offers a different kind of solace - here on earth.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Different
  • Experience
  • Mother

• I'd never had money growing up, and it's never been that important to me, except maybe to take our kids on a nice vacation or something like that.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Up
  • Important
  • Money

• I live in Surrey, but up until the age of eight I lived in London. And the way I heard about this 'Peter Pan' film was there was an open-call audition that I'd heard about, or read about, and I just thought, 'Oh, I'll go along for the fun.' Because I never dreamed in a million years I'd ever get it.

  

  Rachel Hurd-Wood
  • Up
  • Live
  • Fun

• I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • You
  • Fear
  • Will

• When I was in nursery school, the teachers asked me, y'know, 'What does your dad do for a living?' So I said 'He helps women get pregnant!' They called my mom and they were like, 'What exactly does your husband do?'

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Women
  • School
  • Dad

• The victor of the war in Iraq is Iran.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • War

• Promoters do not have a divine right to stay in charge regardless of how badly they mismanage an enterprise, nor do they have the right to use the banking system to recapitalize their failed ventures.

  

  Raghuram Rajan

• No man, I suppose, ever admits to himself candidly that he gets his living in a dishonourable way.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Man
  • Way
  • Living

• The raw materials of story are the raw materials of all human cultures. Story deals with the same questions as theology, philosophy, psychology. It is concerned with polarities: love and hate, birth and death, joy and sorrow, loss and recovery.

  

  Lloyd Alexander
  • Death
  • Hate
  • Joy

• Back in 2005, the Anthony Nolan Trust could have asked me just to speak out about the lack of ethnic minority donors on the bone marrow register, but that would have meant nothing if I wasn't prepared to join up myself.

  

  David Harewood
  • Up
  • Trust

• The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.

  

  Khalil Gibran
  • House
  • Lust

• Mr Blawke always reminded me of a heron; I'm not sure why. Something to do with a sense of rapacious stillness, perhaps, and also the aura of one who knows time is on his side.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Time
  • Why
  • Sides

• I think that Judaism has been, throughout its history since A.D. 70, a diaspora culture that's all about being a minority. In fact, being a small minority. When I'm in Israel, I cannot get used to the notion that we're all Jewish. It doesn't seem to me that we're supposed to all be Jewish.

  

  Mark Kurlansky
  • History
  • Culture
  • Small

• Half the things you've been taught in school are just convenient fictions. History is a puppet show for childish minds.

  

  John Twelve Hawks
  • School
  • History

• On handling stress When you start projecting on the future-'Oh my God, I gotta do this and I’m not there yet'-well, of course you’re not there yet because you’re here now. That time will come…I try to stay in the moment as much as I can and find whatever joy I can in that moment, no matter what it is. Then it doesn’t feel as stressful.

  

  Jennifer Beals
  • Time
  • God
  • Future

• The course of history as a whole is no object of experience; history has no eidos, because the course of history extends into the unknown future.

  

  Eric Voegelin
  • Experience
  • History
  • Future