1972 Quotes

“The LSD phenomenon, on the other hand, is—to me at least—more interesting. It is an intentionally achieved schizophrenia, with the expectation of a spontaneous remission—which, however, does not always follow. Yoga, too, is intentional schizophrenia: one breaks away from the world, plunging inward, and the ranges of vision experienced are in fact the same as those of a psychosis. But what, then, is the difference? What is the difference between a psychotic or LSD experience and a yogic, or a mystical? The plunges are all into the same deep inward sea; of that there can be no doubt. The symbolic figures encountered are in many instances identical (and I shall have something more to say about those in a moment). But there is an important difference. The difference—to put it sharply—is equivalent simply to that between a diver who can swim and one who cannot. The mystic, endowed with native talents for this sort of thing and following, stage by stage, the instruction of a master, enters the waters and finds he can swim; whereas the schizophrenic, unprepared, unguided, and ungifted, has fallen or has intentionally plunged, and is drowning.”
― Joseph Campbell, Myths to Live By

“Women have another option. They can aspire to be wise, not merely nice; to be competent, not merely helpful; to be strong, not merely graceful; to be ambitious for themselves, not merely for themselves in relation to men and children. They can let themselves age naturally and without embarrassment, actively protesting and disobeying the conventions that stem from this society's double standard about aging. Instead of being girls, girls as long as possible who then age humiliatingly into middle-aged women and then obscenely into old women, they can become women much earlier -- and remain active adults, enjoying the long, erotic career of which women are capable, far longer. Women should allow their faces to show the lives they have lived. Women should tell the truth.”
― Susan Sontag

“Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.”
― Lester B. Pearson

“Vents were added to the rear bonnet in 1972 and resulted in wet engines and starting problems, and then extra drip-trays to compensate. From 1968 the Beetle got the right side fuel flap that dodgy people used to break open to steal your gas – or your fuel cap – another hard to find item if lost!”
― Christina Engela, Bugspray

“Aber das ist eine andere Geschichte und soll ein andermal erzählt werden. Michael Andreas Helmut Ende, Die unendliche Geschichte, Seite 255.”
― Petra Hermans

“Bastian, Atreyu and the Empress in the Ivory Tower are One.”
― Petra Hermans

“When beset with doubt in troubled times, and those about you will understand if you come unglued, stay the ground, and face the challenge. For when you stand alone to confront life's highest mountains, the next shall be easier to climb.”
― R.J. Intindola

“The wise quickly dispense gossip, and truth leads it to perish.”
― R.J. Intindola

“If history is like the falling tree in the forest? If nobody remembers, did it still happen?”
― Frank A. Wood, Last Gunship USS Mullinnix DD-944 1972: A 1972 Vietnam War Destroyer Gunline Memoir of a Fire Control Technician

“If you were there, no words are necessary. If you were NOT there no words can explain.”
― Frank A. Wood, Last Gunship USS Mullinnix DD-944 1972: A 1972 Vietnam War Destroyer Gunline Memoir of a Fire Control Technician

“The mind of Homo sapiens was in a perpetual state of uneasy balance between total emotionalism and computerlike control. When the vestiges of the latter, both natural and artificial, were removed, man reverted to a kind of controlled animalism. He became the universe's most astute and efficient killing machine. If the reverse was induced he turned into a vegetable. No use had been found for that state, but for the former.... [from: Tar Aiym Krang (1972), Alan Dean Foster]”
― Alan Dean Foster

“The real relevance of the above observations to our inquiry into belief is the realization that words are not only complex, and also very often misleading, but that they are actually inadequate to the precise expression of our ideas. As instruments of thought they are commonly serviceable enough, but some of the handier ones have been so much battered and blunted, by being continually put to one use after another, that they are no longer fit for accurate work. The verbal concept of belief is very much in this condition, and it is not apt to the expression of those humane concerns to which it pre-eminently has been though rightly adapted. Much the same applies, also, to the words by which in English, at one or more removes, we usually explicate the notion of belief; and then again to the constantly manipulated vocabularies to which we resort when we try to analyse the psychological concepts of other traditions. Far from being able to rely on the simple and definite terms of an ideal or universal language, or on a stock of thoughts […] common to all languages, we have to conduct our comparative analyses by means of words that are likely to fail us at every point. And in seeking to translate alien concepts, moreover, we have to appreciate that the foreign words in question are themselves words that may be in the same state as our own; so when the members of a strange society try, in their own language, to explain to us the meanings of these words, they too must be assumed to be the victims of just such linguistic defects, traps, and diversions as we ourselves when we formulate our own thoughts.”
― Rodney Needham, Belief, Language and Experience