Monist Quotes

#1. The principal barrier to a general acceptance of the monist position is that it is counterintuitive.

Michael Shermer

#2. Animism is a monist metaphysical stance, based upon the idea that mind and matter are not distinct and separate substances but an integrated reality, rooted in nature.

Emma Restall Orr

#3. I was never a monist - always a diversitarian.

M.H. Abrams

#4. Declining to go to church with my parents in the morning, I would ostentatiously set out for the Monist Society in the afternoon, down an obscure street which it seemed a little improper to be walking on, as everything was closed for Sunday, upstairs through a sort of side entrance over a saloon.

Susan Glaspell

#5. On the question of marriage, as in all other respects, Lutheranism is a compromise, a bridge between two logical views of the universe: the Catholic-Christian and the Individualistic Monist. And bridges are made to go over, not to stand upon.

Ellen Key

#6. Because I loved him so and am in the habit of loving him and that love must take the form of fussing and worry and doing. Only

George Saunders

#7. Genius and madness have something in common: both live in a world that is different from that which exists for everyone else.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#8. These days, only the heat of anger gave him the strength to keep moving.

Robert Jordan

#9. When your mind doesn't stir inside, the world doesn't arise outside. When the world and the mind are both transparent, this is true vision. And such understanding is true understanding.

Bodhidharma

#10. Accounting is the language of business.

Warren Buffett

#11. I have not changed; I am still the same girl I was fifty years ago and the same young woman I was in the seventies. I still lust for life, I am still ferociously independent, I still crave justice, and I fall madly in love easily.

Isabel Allende

#12. You're not fifteen any more. You're not the idealistic kid who thought that, deep down, somewhere, somehow, in some way, life had to be fair.
- Callum McGregor

Malorie Blackman

#13. I never know which is worse: the sorrow when you hit the bird or the shame when you miss it.

Julian Fellowes

#14. You think we're a family,' Cody said, turning back. 'You think we're some jolly, situation-comedy family when we're in particles, torn apart, torn all over the place, and our mother was a witch.

Anne Tyler

#15. One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.

Sallust

#16. People shouldn't lie to each other to begin with. People shouldn't have to fear hell in order to tell the truth. They should fear that their lies will ruin relationships or get them in trouble, here now, on Earth, with the people they love.

Renee Carlino

#17. My older brother Billy was really into video games, and of course I followed suit. I was such a dork - I was so geeky!

Ciara Renee