Tom Robbins
Related This is too much reality for a Friday. AS GOOD AS IT GETS KAZUO ISHIGURO I’m strangely comforted when I hear from scientists that human beings are the most complex creatur... KRISTA TIPPETT He loved the beauty of the sea for its own sake and asked nothing more of it. THOMAS STEINBECK LYTTON STRACHEY H.L. MENCKEN EDWARD BOND RABINDRANATH TAGORE RABINDRANATH TAGORE Humor is the one great counter to trouble, as well as its child. AARON SANTOS One human could simply withhold its feelings and intentions from another human by failing to audibil... ROBERT BUETTNER It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it ... ALBERT J. NOCK GEORGES BATAILLE ROLLO MAY ZYGMUNT BAUMAN CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS MARIO VARGAS LLOSA I love to see lack of clarity in a performance as well as clarity, as well as trust, as well as the ... MARTIN LANDAU Realists see the world as it really is in all of its beauty and all if its horror. TERENCE T. GORSKI ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH Architects create spaces that accommodate human activity. As opposed to many of its contemporary cou... MAGNUS LARSSON OSCAR WILDE RABINDRANATH TAGORE Have no fear of change as such and, on the other hand, no liking for it merely for its own sake ROBERT MOSES POPE BENEDICT XVI The Vikings themselves are fascinating creatures. They're human beings, of course, but their eth... LINUS ROACHE HENRY BESTON C. S. LEWIS Algeria is very important, as it is a country that has a well defined infrastructure investment plan... CLOVIS MARTINES JOHN CAGE HENRY FORD ROLLO MAY It's a city of its own and has its own sound. I think what makes it different is the drama; you ... BILLY PAUL M. SCOTT PECK PHILIPPE COUSTEAU, JR. CHRISTINA ENGELA Its one of those 'Catch-22' things. It will take on its own personality and its own growth from here... JUANITA HAYES PICO IYER What I like about the 'Underworld' thing is that it's a mix of cool genres, as well as c... THEO JAMES PAUL RAND MARGARET THATCHER SOURCE UNKNOWN I think most people see drawing as subservient to the subject, a sort of meditation, a studying, a s... PETER WRIGHT Flowers reconnect us to our own beautiful and unique essence as human beings. They wake up our posit... KATIE HESS EMILE DURKHEIM It is what it is, it is what you make it. JAMES DURBIN Let us remember that animals are not mere resources for human consumption. They are splendid beings ... MARC BEKOFF ANNE RICE THOMM QUACKENBUSH ALDOUS HUXLEY ALDOUS HUXLEY MARCUS AURELIUS The king may rule the kingdom, but it's the queen who moves the board. D.M. TIMNEY VICTOR HUGO RON HOWARD MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA What is the real origin of my own anger? Is it the ego defending its territory, or is it something t... JEAN-YVES LELOUP DIAN FOSSEY OSCAR A. ROMERO COLM TOIBIN MATT GROENING Whether one agrees or disagrees with the tactics of the Occupy Wall Street movement, it's easy t... ERIC ALTERMAN [W]e need not become fixated upon our own suffering, whatever its origin. We offer it up, thus parti... JEAN-YVES LELOUP HELEN HUNT JACKSON HENRY FORD The new expanded spirituality is all inclusive. It is inclusive, because it comes from unconditional... RAPHAEL ZERNOFF VICTOR HUGO ELLEN TERRY ELLEN TERRY I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU PYTHAGORAS GREGORY MAGUIRE GEORGE MACDONALD If you are still looking for Charming boys or girls to date them, you'll end up dating Photoshopped ... GOLDEN MASHEGO Sometimes it takes falling apart to see exactly how or what loosened the mortar. Sometimes we find w... COLLEEN TRUSCOTT FRY The only beauty I can own its art...the rest only with my imagination. PANOS TRIVOULIDES ANNE RICE One of the reasons for Princeton's lower rank could be that it is a smaller school. Plus, it raises ... ANN KAPLAN CHARLES DICKENS Science and Spirituality are two sides of the same coin and we cannot separate one from the other. S... THOMAS VAZHAKUNNATHU JOE GARAGIOLA Always Be Ready For Anything that Comes: Bananas, Chips, College, an Opportunity, so when it does yo... DANIEL OJEDA CRAIG GROESCHEL WENDELL BERRY DAVID CROSBY There may be hostility and ambivalence, there may even be no responses and those are the worst becau... LEVIAK B. KELLY Deliberately to pursue happinesss is not the surest way of achieving it. Seek it for its own sake an... ROBERT J. MCCRACKEN LUCY LARCOM STING Love, as wonderful and horrible as it is, has at its center a kind of pitiful humor. TIM O'BRIEN THOMAS JEFFERSON TED DEKKER E. O. WILSON By enriching the carbon-dioxide content of the atmosphere from its impoverished pre-industrial level... ROBERT ZUBRIN JOHN D. MACDONALD DIANE DUANE ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
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What is pertinent is the calmness of beauty, its sense of restraint. It is as though the land knows ... 
Human beings are too important to be treated as mere symptoms of the past. They have a value which i... 
Here is something that the psychologists have so far neglected: the love of ugliness for its own sak... 
[The ruling class] sees people in the working class as being almost animals. It sees itself as being... 
The greed of gain has no time or limit to its capaciousness. Its one object is to produce and consum... 
The greed of gain has no time or limit to its capaciousness. Its one object is to produce and consum... 
Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by... 
It is highly significant, and indeed almost a rule, that moral courage has its source in identificat... 
I suspect that one of capitalism's crucial assets derives from the fact that the imagination of ... 
A saving grace of the human condition (if I may phrase it like that) is a sense of humor. Many write... 
Eroticism has its own moral justification because it says that pleasure is enough for me; it is a st... 
That was what counted, she told herself: those unexpected moments of appreciation, unanticipated gli... 
If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beau... 
The greed of gain has no time or limit to its capaciousness. Its one object is to produce and consum... 
Every State has the primary duty to protect its own population from grave and sustained violations o... 
As well expect Nature to answer to your human values as to come into your house and sit in a chair. ... 
C. S. Lewis Centennial Holding [the Way of Affirmation], we see that every created thing is, in i... 
The grand thing about the human mind is that it can turn its own tables and see meaninglessness as u... 
If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of vie... 
It is highly significant and indeed almost a rule, that moral courage has its source in such identif... 
The overall purpose of human communication is - or should be - reconciliation. It should ultimately ... 
Phoenix is an interesting example. Drive around and see the golf courses everywhere, and you see peo... 
Imagine, if you will:
In many a piece of music, it's the pause or the rest that gives the piece its beauty and its sha... 
Any system that sees aesthetics as irrelevant, that separates the artist from his product, that frag... 
It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake. 
Understanding the limitations of human beings as well as understanding your own is the beginning of ... 
There is a collective as well as an individual humor inclining peoples to sadness or cheerfulness, m... 
There is one purpose to life and one only: to bear witness to and understand as much as possible of ... 
Though denigrated by some outside academia and research, she embraced knowledge for its own sake and... 
The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings... 
Everything in any way beautiful has its beauty of itself, inherent and self-sufficient: praise is no... 
Progress is the life-style of man. The general life of the human race is called Progress, and so is ... 
One of the great things about being a director as a life choice is that it can never be mastered. Ev... 
We human beings regard ourselves as (or compare ourselves to) animals only when it suits us. 
One of the basic steps in saving a threatened species is to learn more about it: its diet, its matin... 
For the church, the many abuses of human life, liberty, and dignity are a heartfelt suffering. The c... 
It may be enough to study history in all its nuance and ambiguity for its own sake. But there is no ... 
Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It's what separates us from the animals ... except th... 
There cannot be found in the animal kingdom a bat, or any other creature, so blind in its own range ... 
If it is the mark of the artist to love art before everything, to renounce everything for its sake, ... 
If it is the mark of the artist to love art before everything, to renounce everything for its sake, ... 
As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius -- the power... 
The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself... 
As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know heal... 
The real thing about evil," said the Witch at the doorway, "isn't any of what you said. You figure o... 
…for nothing is ever so mischievous in its own place as it is out of it; 
There is one purpose to life and one only: to bear witness to and understand as much as possible of ... 
In the moonlight which is always sad, as the light of the sun itself is--as the light called human l... 
Six of one, half dozen of another. Oh, well, half of one, six dozen of the other. 
What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act? 
Over a long time, the coming and passing of several generations, the old farm had settled into its p... 
I think music is a lifting force, I think love is the lifting force in the human condition. I think ... 
Everything in nature has its own intrinsic charm, as the work of its Creator's hand; but the chi... 
I see music as one language. If one musical form eats its own tail, it dies. So it needs to be a mon... 
It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on w... 
I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by ou... 
Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake. 
...there are people who try to look as if they are doing a good and thorough job, and then there are... 
In Life’s name and for Life’s sake, I say that I will use the Art for nothing but the service of... 
To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest mani... 
There were no mail-order catalogues in 1492. Marco Polo's journal was the wish book of Renaissance E... 
What bothers most critics of my work is the goofiness. One reviewer said I need to make up my mind i... 
If little else, the brain is an educational toy. 