#thou

Let's suppose somebody abused you sexually. You still had a choice, though not a good one, about what to tell yourself about the abuse. ↗

— Albert Ellis

#abuse #choice #good #had #sexually

No, we always had something to do because I did all the wave runners and jet skis and boats approaching the atolls and stuff like that, so you could do that without showing the actual atoll or the set that you're going towards, but detailing all those guys racing towards it. ↗

— David R. Ellis

#always #approaching #because #boats #could

The work itself has a complete circle of meaning and counterpoint. And without your involvement as a viewer, there is no story. ↗

— Anish Kapoor

#complete #counterpoint #involvement #itself #meaning

I know that I'm inadequate, but I never thought that at seventeen. I thought I was doing the best I could. I thought I was being idealistic. ↗

— Eric Bogosian

#best #could #doing #i #idealistic

There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers; we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness. ↗

— William Godwin

#apprehend #conceive #exercise #imagination #must

Similarly, thought is a system. That system not only includes thought and feelings, but it includes the state of the body; it includes the whole of society - as thought is passing back and forth between people in a process by which thought evolved from ancient times. ↗

— David Bohm

#ancient times #back #between #body #evolved

Thought has been constantly evolving and we can't say when that system began. ↗

— David Bohm

#began #constantly #evolving #say #system

As much as I transferred my mother to Elizabeth Shore of The Black Dahlia, as much as her dad mutated into an obsession with crime in general, well, I have thought about other things throughout the years. ↗

— James Ellroy

#black #crime #dad #elizabeth #general

And thought struggles against the results, trying to avoid those unpleasant results while keeping on with that way of thinking. That is what I call 'sustained incoherence. ↗

— David Bohm

#avoid #call #i #keeping #results

Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others and without distortion and self-deception. Would this not constitute a real revolution in culture. ↗

— David Bohm

#compulsive #conform #constitute #culture #distortion