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.
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Confusion is the best form of communication. It's left to be unexplained.
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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.
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All that is mine by Divine Right is now released and reaches me in great avalanches of abundance, under grace in miraculous ways.
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To the confusion of our enemies.
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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.
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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.
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You cry out in your sleep - all my failings expose.
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I've reached the age where competence is a turn-on.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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-….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.
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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.
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Freedom's enemies are waste, lethargy, indifference, immorality, and the insidious attitude of something for nothing.
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Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.
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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.
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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.
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A raft needed to cross the river is discarded when the other shore is reached, not carried about on one's head.
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The universe was a vast machine yesterday, it is a hologram today. Who knows what intellectual rattle we'll be shaking tomorrow.
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It's a curious thing, this thing we call civilization...we think it is an affair of epochs, and nations. It's really an affair of individuals. One brother will be civilized and the other a barbarian...All civilization comes through literature now, especially in our country. A Greek got his civilization by talking and looking, and in some measure a Parisian may still do it. But we, who live remote from history and monuments, we must read or we must barbarise.
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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.
