Lars Svendsen Quotes

#1. Be yourself, build meaningful relationships, follow your dreams.

Ray William Johnson

#2. God, guide and protect us. When we're wrong, please correct us.

Bob Marley

#3. At fancy and expensive restaurants (say, $50 and up for a dinner), you can follow a simple procedure to choose the best meal. Look at the menu and ask yourself: 'Which of these items do I least want to order?' Or: 'Which one sounds the least appetizing?' Then order that item.

Tyler Cowen

#4. He that slayeth an ox is as he that killeth a human.

Isaiah

#5. We spontaneously relate to ourselves and the world by means of the technical object.

Lars Fr. H. Svendsen

#6. The difference between imaginary and real object creates a continuos desire

Lars Fr. H. Svendsen

#7. Christ exposed Himself not only to the unbridled hostility of angry men, but, more significantly, to the unmitigated wrath of God.

R.C. Sproul

#8. Success is survival.

Leonard Cohen

#9. Traditions brings continuity to one's existence, but this sort of continuity is precisely what has been increasingly lost
throughout modernity.

Lars Fr. H. Svendsen

#10. I looked to animal and insect imagery to develop the lack of substance and wasted motion that my Terminator has. I tried to tap into the killer instinct inherent in animals, where they are locked onto a target and will walk through anything that gets between them and their intended target

Robert Patrick

#11. Anthropocentrism gave rise to boredom, and when anthropomorphism was replaced by technocentrism, boredom became even more profound.

Lars Fr. H. Svendsen

#12. Animals can be understimulated, but hardly bored.

Lars Fr. H. Svendsen

#13. A utopia cannot, by definition, include boredom, but the 'utopia' we are living in is boring.

Lars Fr. H. Svendsen

#14. Traditions have been replaced by lifestyles.

Lars Fr. H. Svendsen

#15. Every Harry Potter film features Lord Voldemort, who stereotypes evil. And movies that discriminate against evil have no place on campus, because evil has feelings, too. Terrorists cry during commercials and mad bombers enjoy long walks and campfires, too.

Jedediah Bila

#16. Today it [high fructose corn syrup] is the most valuable food product refined from corn, accounting for 530 million bushels every year. (A bushel of corn yields 33 pounds of fructose)

Michael Pollan

#17. For Heidegger, boredom is a privileged fundamental mood because it leads us directly into the very problem complex of being and time.

Lars Fr. H. Svendsen

#18. Hearts can be treacherous, but the best way to keep them from fooling you is to listen to them intently

Paulo Coelho

#19. Love is a magical power. If love is not a living magic, then what is?

Debasish Mridha

#20. The pain of life overrides the joy to the point that joy does not exist.

Kevin Carter

#21. One mood can be replaced by another, but it is impossible to leave attunement altogether. However, profound boredom brings us as close to a state of un-attunement as we can come.

Lars Fr. H. Svendsen

#22. Heidegger's concept for the kind of being we ourselves are is Dasein. Literally it means 'being-there'.We are the sort of beings who are there, in the world. What characterizes Dasein is that its existence is a concern for it in its existence.

Lars Fr. H. Svendsen

#23. Self-identity is inextricably bound up with the identity of the surroundings.

Lars Fr. H. Svendsen

#24. The art of coalition command - whether it is here in Afghanistan, whether it was in Iraq or in Bosnia or in Haiti - is to take the resources you are provided with, understand what the strengths and weaknesses are and to employ them to the best overall effect.

David Petraeus