Rollo May and visions

Rollo May (1909-1994) was an American psychologist. There are 3 quotes listed below.

1. "The rebel is committed to giving a form and pattern to the world. It is a pattern born of the indomitable thrust of the human mind, the mind which makes out the mass of meaningless data in the world an order and a form." (Power and Innocence, 1972)

2. "Artists are generally soft-spoken persons who are concerned with their innervisions and images. But that is precisely what makes them feared by any coercive society. Forever unsatisfied with the mundane, the apathetic, the conventional, they always push on to newer worlds." (The Courage to Create, 1975)

3. "Poets often have a conscious awareness that they are struggling with the daimonic, and that the issue is their working something through from the depths which push the self to a new plane." (Love and Will, 1969)

Allen Ginsberg and poetry

Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) was an American writer. There are 4 quotes listed below.

1. "The war is language, language abused for entertainment, language used like magic for power on the planet." (Wichita Vortex Sutra, 1966)

2. "The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does. By poetry I mean the imagining of what has been lost and what can be found - the imagining of who we are and the slow realization of it." (Quoted in Poems by C. F. Main and Peter J. Seng)

3. "When you notice something clearly and see it vividly, it then becomes sacred." (AZQuotes.com)

4. "I believe that we are put here in human form to decipher the hieroglyphs of love and suffering." (AZQuotes.com)

G. K. Chesterton and knowledge

G. K. Chesterton (1874-11936) was an English writer. There are 10 quotes listed below.

1. "...the corruption of the priesthood occurred at the precise moment in which it changed from a minority organized to impart knowledge into a minority organized to withhold it. The great danger of decadence in journalism is almost exactly the same." (The New Priests, 1901)

2. "There is a certain poetic value, and that a genuine one, in this sense of having missed the full meaning of things. There is beauty, not only in wisdom but in this dazed and dramatic ignorance." (Robert Browning, 1903)

3. "In the moon, and from the beginning of time, mysticism has kept men sane. The thing that has driven them mad was logic... The only thing that has kept the race of men from the mad extremes of the convent and the pirate galley, the night-club and the lethal chamber, has been mysticism - the belief that logic is misleading , and that things are not what they seem." (Tolstoy, 1903)

4."The center of every man's existence is a dream." (Twelve Types, 1903)

5. "The simplification of anything is always sensational." (Varied Types, 1903)

6. "I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder." (A Short History of England, 1917)

7. "Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously." (Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton: The Illustrated London News, 1905-1907)

8. "Every one of the great revolutionist, from Isiah to Shelly, have been optimists. They have been indignant, not about the badness of existence, but about the slowness of men in realizing tis goodness." (The Defendant, 1901)

9. "Humility is the luxurious art of reducing ourselves to a point, not to a small thing or a large one, but to a thing with no size at all, so that to it all the cosmic things are what they really are - of immeasurable stature." (The Defendant, 1901)

10. "Dogma does not mean the absence of thought but the end of thought." (The Victorian Age of Literature, 1913)

Thomas Paine and democracy

Thomas Paine (1737-1809) was a British-American philosopher. There are 3 quotes listed below.

1. "The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind." (Common Sense, 1776)

2. "The right of voting for representatives is the primary right by which other rights are protected. To take away this right is to reduce a man to slavery, for slavery consists in being subject to the will of another, and he that has not a vote in the election of representatives is in this case." (First Principles of Government, 1795)

3. "...we still find the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry, and grasping the spoil of the multitude." (Rights of Man, 1791)