Ascenders Quotes

#1. Starting with the Renaissance and running through the Enlightenment, there occurred what we might call "the great reversal." Suddenly, very suddenly, the Ascenders were out, the Descenders were in - and the transition was bloody, arguably the bloodiest cognitive transformation in European history.

Ken Wilber

#2. I usually write for the individual reader -though I would like to have many such readers. There are some poets who write for people assembled in big rooms, so they can live through something collectively. I prefer my reader to take my poem and have a one-on-one relationship with it.

Wislawa Szymborska

#3. Neurobiological research has shown that in people with chronic PTSD, both stress hormone secretion and areas of the brain connected to memory function, such as the hippocampus, appear to be affected, although exactly how and why remains controversial.

Siri Hustvedt

#4. But what was a body? Dust, dung, urine, itches. It was the light within which was important, and it was not significant if that light endured after death, or if the soul was blinded eternally in the endless night of the suspired flesh.

Taylor Caldwell

#5. Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.

Jean Genet

#6. Some men have threads of life so strong that they fray and snap those around them. Enough friends have paid for my war. This one's on me.

Pierce Brown

#7. For just once in my life, I'd like to get through a whole week without having to deal with some fool, white or black, who's got an attitude about the way I look.

Barbara Neely

#8. Man, therefore, according to the Vedanta philosophy, is the greatest being that is in the universe.

Swami Vivekananda

#9. Despite good intentions, the result is troubling: Feeding the Beast becomes the central focus.

Ed Catmull

#10. Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.

Brian Clough

#11. There will always be something scary in the world. You must choose whether or not to let it frighten you.
The Venger Breegan,
Quest for Evil: The Magic of the Key by Jenna Lindsey

Jenna Lindsey