Conventionalism Quotes

#1. Among the most remarkable features characterizing Zen we find these: spirituality, directness of expression, disregard of form or conventionalism, and frequently an almost wanton delight in going astray from respectability.

D.T. Suzuki

#2. Zen is the spirit of a man. Zen believes in his inner purity and goodness. Whatever is superadded or violently torn away, injures the wholesomeness of the spirit. Zen, therefore, is emphatically against all religious conventionalism.

D.T. Suzuki

#3. Vince Gilligan and AMC are really wonderful people to direct and produce for because they don't put the demands of any conventionalism on you.

Michelle MacLaren

#4. As the eye becomes blinded by fashion to positive deformity, so, through social conventionalism, the conscience becomes blinded to positive immorality.

Anna Brownell Jameson

#5. Nihilism is but the other side of conventionalism; its creed consists of negations of the current so-called positive values, to which it remains bound.

Hannah Arendt

#6. In this thatched hut there ought not to be a speck of dust of any kind; both master and visitors are expected to be on terms of absolute sincerity; no ordinary measures of proportion or etiquette or conventionalism are to be followed.

Sen No Rikyu

#7. It is no accident that the Victorian age, the heyday of conventionalism, was the cultural bloom of economic liberalism.

Gunnar Myrdal

#8. It comforted the great to deal with it and they knew, a man who could reduce any color to grey.

John Le Carre

#9. I'm glad I do not have a rebellious nature, so I am not forced to do things just because others do not want.

Luigina Sgarro

#10. When you come up with a good idea, you don't have to do a whole lot. The idea does it for you.

Don Cornelius

#11. The new disease of our age is being OK doing everything at exactly the same time.

Nigel Cumberland

#12. This box is useless," said Alliance 6-7349.
Should it be what they claim of it," said Harmony 9-2642, "then it would bring ruin to the Department of Candles.

Ayn Rand

#13. Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

Napoleon Hill

#14. I remember being married to John Barry and trying to be the best wife in the world.

Jane Birkin

#15. Dear God, I understand that if I fail to believe in you, I'll burn in hell for eternity. Thanks for being such a good sport about it.

Scott Dikkers

#16. The narrower their lives, the wider their hips.

Toni Morrison

#17. All the disadvantages of good roads: high speed, and almost total lack of that inspiring factor in travel
the welcoming hand of the interested stranger.

Robert Edison Fulton Jr.

#18. The greatest miracle is the miracle of wakefulness, to awaken from the dream of life and to see infinity everywhere, even in the finite, in the simple doings of life.

Frederick Lenz

#19. The conventional mind is passive - it consumes information and regurgitates it in familiar forms. The dimensional mind is active, transforming everything it digests into something new and original, creating instead of consuming.

Robert Greene

#20. Good-bye, Davita. Be discontented with the world. But be respectful at the same time.

Chaim Potok

#21. What differentiated us was our perception of our mutual reality, which made no difference.

Mie Hansson