Human Projection Quotes

#1. Cats are autocrats of naked self-interest. They are both amoral and immoral, consciously breaking rules. Their 'evil' look at such times is no human projection: the cat may be the only animal who savors the perverse or reflects upon it

Camille Paglia

#2. The love of God is no human projection, but the wrath of God is. In fact, what we call the wrath of God is really the love of God experienced by a fool.

Peter Kreeft

#3. Mechanism as a philosophic doctrine might be defined as the belief that the last machine which human ingenuity has created gives us the final form of reality.

William Barrett

#4. Religions are institutions that push you up the mountain and then they have their fantasies about the spirit. I mean they try to make God like the human psyche and it's wrong. I mean it's a projection of the mind, and you can use it to get a start and then you must leave it behind.

Ram Dass

#5. Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.

Karl Popper

#6. The modern mind dislikes gold because it blurts out unpleasant truths.

Joseph A. Schumpeter

#7. In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.

Maxim Gorky

#8. The cheapest, most effective way to connect with others is to look them in the eye.

Nicholas Boothman

#9. And no wonder; for the new technique of "subliminal projection," as it was called, was intimately associated with mass entertainment, and in the life of civilized human beings massed entertainment now plays a part comparable to that played in the Middle Ages be religion.

Aldous Huxley

#10. Lisp is worth learning for the profound enlightenment experience you will have when you finally get it; that experience will make you a better programmer for the rest of your days, even if you never actually use Lisp itself a lot.

Eric S. Raymond

#11. Broken Wind believed that we are traumatized as babies by intestinal gas or colic. The great shaman invented a technique called "gastral projection" to help release these traumas. His philosophy was simple: "To air is human ... but to really cut one loose is divine.

Swami Beyondananda

#12. It seems obvious to me that the notion of God has never been anything but a kind of ideal projection, a reflection upward of the human personality, and that theology never has been and never can be anything but a more and more purified mythology.

Alfred Loisy

#13. Leaving aside the mysteries and the inequities of human talent, brains, taste, and reputations, the matter of art in photography may come down to this: it is the capture and projection of the delights of seeing; it is the defining of observation full and felt.

Walker Evans

#14. I'm just here to remind you that every human life is a bold and delicate projection of the eternal into the temporal.

Paul Kijinski

#15. In all its manifestations, religion constitutes an immense projection of human meanings into the empty vastness of the universe-a projection, to be sure, which comes back as an alien reality to haunt its producers.' - p.100, 'The Sacred Canopy

Peter Berger

#16. The self-judging person will always judge others. The rubric we develop for ourselves, the measuring stick we put against our own mind and body, generalizes to every other human being.

Vironika Tugaleva

#17. I think we have the attention span of a gnat. You know, with cell phones and Twitter.

Jeff Daniels

#18. God and Satan alike are essentially human figures, the one a projection of ourselves, the other of our enemies.

Bertrand Russell

#19. I who have nothing may have nothing, but I'll always have something that you don't. And that's respect.

Roberto Flores