#ration

Symptoms, those you believe you recognize, seem to you irrational because you take them in an isolated manner, and you want to interpret them directly. ↗

— Jacques Lacan

#believe #directly #interpret #irrational #isolated

Despair and frustration will not shake our belief that the resistance is the only way of liberation. ↗

— Emile Lahud

#despair #frustration #liberation #only #our

Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death. ↗

— R. D. Laing

#breakdown #death #enslavement #existential #liberation

It would be wrong to assume that one must stay with a research programme until it has exhausted all its heuristic power, that one must not introduce a rival programme before everybody agrees that the point of degeneration has probably been reached. ↗

— Imre Lakatos

#been #before #degeneration #everybody #exhausted

Our nation stands at the crossroads of liberty. Crushing national debt, rampant illegal immigration, insane business regulations and staggering national unemployment are pushing our nation into unchartered territory. ↗

— James Lankford

#crossroads #crushing #debt #illegal #illegal immigration

Despite its enormous power and wealth, China's ruling elite remains absolutely petrified that the free flow of information will undermine its political legitimacy, particularly among China's younger generation. ↗

— Tom Lantos

#among #china #despite #elite #enormous

– Вы сами изволите знать, – продолжает доктор тихо и с расстановкой, – что на этом свете все незначительно и неинтересно, кроме высших духовных проявлений человеческого ума. Ум проводит резкую грань между животным и человеком, намекает на божественность последнего и в некоторой степени даже заменяет ему бессмертие, которого нет. Исходя из этого, ум служит единственно возможным источником наслаждения. Мы же не видим и не слышим около себя ума, – значит, мы лишены наслаждения. Правда, у нас есть книги, но это совсем не то, что живая беседа и общение. Если позволите сделать не совсем удачное сравнение, то книги – это ноты, а беседа – пение. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

#inspirational

Christs Purchasaed Possession Precious is His purchased Possession. Great is His ownership of life. He paid the price in sacrifice For those who believe in Him. Great is His love for His own. Simply to the Lord Jesus Christ I cling Precious is His purchased possession Great is His ownership of life. ↗

— Esther Thornburg

#inspirational

The sixties began what many admirers of Eliot would consider a bleak period. The anxiety of influence of the profession at large seemed to inspire quick and increasingly uninformed dismissals of Eliot, and these repeated denigrations produced, predictably, a generation of students with vague and inaccurate impressions about his poetry and ideas. But there is a bright side to Eliot studies of the last quarter century. The general retreat from Eliot coincided with the beginning of basic and important work on his ideas, especially on his early philosophical writings. ↗

— Jewel Spears Brooker

#inspirational

I love that you get cold when it's 71 degrees out. I love that it takes you an hour and a half to order a sandwich. I love that you get a little crinkle above your nose when you're looking at me like I'm nuts. I love that after I spend the day with you, I can still smell your perfume on my clothes. And I love that you are the last person I want to talk to before I go to sleep at night. And it's not because I'm lonely, and it's not because it's New Year's Eve. I came here tonight because when you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible. ↗

— Nora Ephron

#declarations-of-love #foibles #future #harry-burns #in-love