Ken Wilber Quotes
The Enlightenment was an attempt to liberate myth and base truth claims on evidence, not just dogma. But when science threw out the church, they threw out the baby with the bath water.
Quotes to Explore
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Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of Hegel, Marx, and Freud. I don't see any way of getting beyond those prophecies.
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Karaoke is something that's near and dear and very close to my heart. I was a karaoke host when I was working my way through university. I was a full-time student and karaoke was my night job.
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Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.
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I've had the experience of having a book praised but then it doesn't sell. Or not praised but then it sells.
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Corruption is not the sole test of your worthiness to form the government.
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America's fine, nice, nice hiking near L.A. But I am European. I love London and Paris. Friends and intellect, big thought, why not?
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People often ask me whether I believe in God. I haven't seen God. But I think that one's beliefs are one's God - and, in those terms, yes, God is there.
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Congress is attempting to eviscerate women's health care. Like many women across America, I am outraged.
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I love literature deeply. I view books as sacred things, and in writing my story, I'm going to do my best to honor the form that has played such a huge part in shaping who I am.
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There is no way to peace; peace is the way.
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With modeling, you are the client and you give them what they want... with music, it is all about you, people are buying into you as a person.
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In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
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Small lending institutions lack the capability of their larger counterparts to hire the additional manpower necessary to deal with the hundreds of additional regulations created by Dodd-Frank.
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Sometimes I feel like there are just too many things weighing on my mind at once, and I can't control my thoughts or even my body at times.
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I do not want to be bored listening to music that is muffled and known only to the poet himself.
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The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century.
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We are never racist against somebody who is very far away. I don't know any racism against the Eskimos. To have a racist feeling, there must be an other who is slightly different from us - but is living close to us.
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Do you agree that the European Union should be able to prescribe the mandatory settlement of non-Hungarian citizens in Hungary without the consent of parliament?
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We're going to do tax reform to let people keep more of what they earn, grow an economy, and be able to save for your children's future and buy a new house.
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I have fun when I'm making music, and I want people to have fun when they listen to it.
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It's a lovely thing to be able to sing.
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I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.
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In elementary school, I did well in science, but I was a poor writer. When I got to high school, I failed all my courses.
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The Enlightenment was an attempt to liberate myth and base truth claims on evidence, not just dogma. But when science threw out the church, they threw out the baby with the bath water.
