Chthonian Quotes

#1. The female body is a chthonian machine, indifferent to the spirit who inhabits it.

Camille Paglia

#2. In this chthonian world the only thing of importance is orthography and punctuation. It doesn't matter what the nature of the calamity is, only whether it is spelled right.

Henry Miller

#3. Immigrants use the library often. A lot of them don't have access to books and Internet at home. They seem so disconnected to the city.

Rabindranath Maharaj

#4. Like most kids, I grew up singing 'This Land Is Your Land' in grammar school, but with the most radical verses neatly removed. This was before I knew it was a Woody Guthrie song.

Steve Earle

#5. We don't have to be good, you know? No one's telling us that we have to do good things, but we do them because we know it makes other people feel good and it makes us feel good.

Michael Franti

#6. I take photographs with love, so I try to make them art objects. But I make them for myself first and foremost - that is important.

Jacques-Henri Lartigue

#7. When you learn to love yourself, you will no longer tolerate mistreatment of any kind. Not from him. Not from her. And not from YOU.

Karen Michelle Miller

#8. Science is not there for you to cherry pick ... You can decide whether or not to believe in it but that doesn't change the reality of an emergent scientific truth.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#9. He sailed through American history like a steel ship loaded with monoliths of granite.

H.L. Mencken

#10. Lack of courage often hinders us from accomplishing the positive things that we would like to do.

Gary Chapman

#11. To be free from false identity and the hypnosis of conditioning is the biggest smile and joy you are going to feel in your life.

Mooji

#12. The author says that one of the difficulties of modern parenting is the uncertainty of what parents are preparing children for. In traditional societies this was clear, as parents prepared children for a society and for roles much like their own. She writes, There is no folk wisdom.

Jennifer Senior