Ernest Gellner Quotes
Nationalism is not the awakening of nations to self-consciousness; it invents nations where they do not exist.
Ernest Gellner
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The real transformation of the world comes not from what we are doing but from the consciousness from which we are doing it.
Marianne Williamson
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There is no such thing as a faithless person; we either have faith in the power of love, or faith in the power of fear. For faith is an aspect of consciousness. Have faith in love, and fear will lose its power over you. Have faith in forgiveness, and your self-hatred will fall away. Have faith in miracles, and they will come to you.
Marianne Williamson
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I don't believe there are any powers, which in the larger sense, are unnatural or even supernatural. I think we just do not yet scientifically understand all of the powers inherent in the human consciousness, and the more attuned we are to the realm of spirit, the more our conscious mind is available to subconscious, spiritual prompting.
Marianne Williamson
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In the century now dawning, spirituality, visionary consciousness, and the ability to build and mend human relationships will be more important for the fate and safety of this nation than our capacity to forcefully subdue an enemy. Creating the world we want is a much more subtle but more powerful mode of operation than destroying the one we don't want.
Marianne Williamson
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The adept may reach one of those rare moments that spell illumination -- aware of the light of the consciousness that illumines our consciousness as the sun dawns on the sleeping earth and bathes it in effulgence.
Pir Vilayat Khan
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Nationalism is war. - in arguing to strengthen the federal powers of the European Union
Francois Mitterrand
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The bourgeoisie, which far surpasses the proletariat in the completeness and irreconcilibility of its class consciousness, is vitally interested in imposing its moral philosophy upon the exploited masses. It is exactly for this purpose that the concrete norms of the bourgeois catechism are concealed under moral abstractions...The appeal to abstract norms is not a disinterested philosophic mistake but a necessary element in the mechanics of class deception.
Leon Trotsky
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The body is the vehicle, consciousness the driver. Yoga is the path, and the chakras are the map.
Anodea Judith
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The history of human consciousness is marked by the battle between the old awareness, the ways of fear, and the new awareness, the ways of love.
Al Berto
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Fame is ultimately about the cycles of desire and how to do away with them or manage them well.
Lady Gaga
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Today as in the time of Pliny and Columella, the hyacinth flourishes in Wales, the periwinkle in Illyria, the daisy on the ruins of Numantia; while around them cities have changed their masters and their names, collided and smashed, disappeared into nothingness, their peaceful generations have crossed down the ages as fresh and smiling as on the days of battle.
Edgar Quinet
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Nationalism is not the awakening of nations to self-consciousness; it invents nations where they do not exist.
Ernest Gellner
