#gm

If an imaginative boy has a sufficiently rich mother who has intelligence, personal grace, dignity of character without harshness, and a cultivated sense of the best art of her time to enable her to make her house beautiful, she sets a standard for him against which very few women can struggle, besides effecting for him a disengagement of his affections, his sense of beauty, and his idealism from his specifically sexual impulses. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#motherhood #pygmalion #shaw #imagination

Let go of the mistakes and the sins of others. You'll have plenty of time to make your own mistakes, the rest of your life to commit your own sins. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#dont-be-judgmental #life-and-living #mistakes #sins #life

If it is true that we need a degree of certainty to get by, it is also true that too much of the stuff can be lethal. ↗

— Terry Eagleton

#dogmatism #life #life

God has judged me all my life. But that is God's privilege, my lady. Not yours. ↗

— Barbara Hambly

#religion #life

It would be very nice if there were a God who created the world and was a benevolent providence, and if there were a moral order in the universe and an after-life; but it is a very striking fact that all this is exactly as we are bound to wish it to be. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#religion #sigmund-freud #life

Ideas that require people to reorganize their picture of the world provoke hostility. ↗

— James Gleick

#chaos-theory #life #mathematics #paradigm #paradigm-shift

Being stigmatied by sex is being marked by its meaning in a human life of loneliness and imperfection, where some pain is indelible. ↗

— Andrea Dworkin

#misogyny #passion #sex #stigma #life

Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive. ↗

— George Eliot

#dogma #mistake #science #life

Tragic heroes are failed pragmatists. Their ends are unrealistic and their means are impractical. ↗

— Adam Phillips

#pragmatism #life

We acknowledge that being the person God made you cannot separate you from God's love. ↗

— John Green

#love