Cosmic Law of Satisfaction – Quote by Georges I. Gurdjieff
“There is a cosmic law which says that every satisfaction must be paid for with a dissatisfaction.”
Georges I. Gurdjieff
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Without Struggle No Progress – Quote by Georges I. Gurdjieff
“Without struggle, no progress and no result. Every breaking of habit produces a change in the machine.”
Georges I. Gurdjieff
Quote by Fred Hoyle on Superintelligence and Natural Laws
“A commonsense interpretation of the facts suggests that a superintellect has monkeyed with physics, as well as with chemistry and biology, and that there are no blind forces worth speaking about in nature. The numbers one calculates from the facts seem to me so overwhelming as to put this conclusion almost beyond question.”
Fred Hoyle
Only Passions Can Elevate the Soul to Great Things – Denis Diderot Quote
“Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.”
Denis Diderot
Quote by Alicia Silverstone on True Lightness
“I think lightness has to come from a very deep place if it’s true lightness.”
Alicia Silverstone
Quote by Alicia Silverstone on Dogs, Joy and Love
“We always had dogs,so I understood all the joy and the love animals are capable of giving. It’s crazy to me that some people have dogs in thier homes, but they treat them more like furniture.”
Alicia Silverstone
Quote by Oswald Spengler on Socialism and Capitalism
“Every Socialist outbreak only blazes new paths for Capitalism.”
Oswald Spengler
Quote by Oswald Spengler on Philosophy, Psychology and Practical Professions
“I maintain that to-day many an inventor, many a diplomat, many a financier is a sounder philosopher than all those who practise the dull craft of experimental psychology.”
Oswald Spengler
Quote by Oswald Spengler on Nature Knowledge and Human Understanding
“Critical (i.e., separating) methods apply only to the world-as-nature. It would be easier to break up a theme of Beethoven with dissecting knife or acid than to break up the soul by methods of abstract thought . Nature-knowledge and man-knowledge have neither ways nor aims in common.”
Oswald Spengler
Quote by Alicia Silverstone on Daily Commitment and Making a Difference
“It’s important to see what we can do to make a difference, but it’s more important to me to do it every single day.”
Alicia Silverstone