Denis de Rougemont Quotes

Social confusion has now reached a point at which the pursuit of immorality turns out to be more exhausting than compliance with the old moral codes.

Denis de Rougemont

• Confusion
• Reached
• Compliance
• Immorality
• Exhausting

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• Confusion is the best form of communication. It's left to be unexplained.

  

  Lesley Lawson
  • Communication
  • Confusion

• I have reached the stage now where luxury is not in fine possessions but in carefree possessions, and the greatest luxury of all would be the completely expendable.

  

  Nan Fairbrother
  • Stage
  • Fine
  • Possession

• All that is mine by Divine Right is now released and reaches me in great avalanches of abundance, under grace in miraculous ways.

  

  Florence Scovel Shinn
  • Great
  • Abundance
  • Reached

• To the confusion of our enemies.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Enemies
  • Confusion

• Never is the gospel of Jesus Christ more beautiful than in times of intense need, or in times of a severe storm within us as individuals, or in times of confusion and turmoil.

  

  Harold B. Lee
  • Beautiful
  • Jesus
  • Storm

• I have a friend - I send her one text and I get 20 texts back. Guys don't want a million texts. It's exhausting.

  

  Anderson Cooper
  • Guy
  • Want
  • Friend

• You cry out in your sleep - all my failings expose.

  

  Ian Curtis Joy Division
  • Sleep
  • Tears
  • Confusion

• I've reached the age where competence is a turn-on.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Age
  • Reached
  • Competence

• I always tell my Western friends that it is best to keep your own tradition. Changing religion is not easy and sometimes causes confusion. You must value your tradition and honor your own religion.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Friends
  • Value
  • Spiritual

• Happiness is a state of mind. With physical comforts if your mind is still in a state of confusion and agitation, it is not happiness. Happiness means calmness of mind.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Mind
  • Mean
  • Happiness

• Counsel for both the DNC and Clinton/Gore used those (FEC) guidelines to approve every ad to ensure strict compliance with the law. We are hopeful that once the Department has reviewed this matter fully, it will conclude that these ads were proper.

  

  Charles Ruff
  • Law
  • Department
  • Compliance

• The corollary of constant change is ignorance. This is not often talked about: we computer experts barely know what we're doing. We're good at fussing and figuring out. We function well in a sea of unknowns. Our experience has only prepared us to deal with confusion. A programmer who denies this is probably lying, or else is densely unaware of himself.

  

  Ellen Ullman
  • Good
  • Experience
  • Sea

• -….when things seem to have reached that stage, merely say “I won’t play any longer”, and take your departure; but if you stay, stop lamenting.

  

  Epictetus
  • Stage
  • Reached
  • Departure

• A real fox calls sour not only those grapes that he cannot reach but also those that he has reached and taken away from others.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Reached
  • Fox
  • Grapes

• Freedom's enemies are waste, lethargy, indifference, immorality, and the insidious attitude of something for nothing.

  

  William Arthur Ward
  • Enemy
  • Attitude
  • Indifference

• Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

  

  Maggie Kuhn
  • Confusion
  • Cause
  • Course

• We're all mad, the whole damned race. We're wrapped in illusions, delusions, confusions about the penetrability of partitions, we're all mad and in solitary confinement.

  

  William Golding
  • Mad
  • Illusion
  • Confusion

• Each one of us must carry within the proof of immortality, it cannot be given from outside of us. To be sure, everything in natureis change but behind the change there is something eternal.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Change
  • Proof
  • Immorality

• You will come to agree with me.

  

  Blue Balliett
  • Agree

• Islam believes that Jesus is a prophet, and they honour him - highly - and they respect him, and they follow his teachings. So, for me, as somebody who was raised Muslim, it is an honour to actually play Jesus, just because of that.

  

  Haaz Sleiman
  • Jesus
  • Islam
  • Prophet

• So long as the presence of death lurks with anyone who goes through the simple act of swallowing, I will make mine whiskey.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Long
  • Death
  • Simple

• A tobacco industry has been a fairly linear and predictable industry. You know what's going to happen every year. You know from time to time you are going to have a tax increase, you are going to have regulatory restriction, but, as it applies to everybody, I think we are doing very well. But now it's much more technology-driven. Competitors other than our traditional competitors can come in, whether legitimate or fly-by-night ones, and you have to anticipate all those things. The whole organization has to gear up to this new reality and these new competitive rules around it.

  

  Andre Calantzopoulos
  • Reality
  • Technology
  • Tax

• Social confusion has now reached a point at which the pursuit of immorality turns out to be more exhausting than compliance with the old moral codes.

  

  Denis de Rougemont
  • Confusion
  • Reached
  • Compliance