Personalism's Quotes

#1. Personalism's insistence that only personality-finite and infinite-is ultimately real strengthened me in two convictions: it gave me metaphysical and philosophical grounding for the idea of a personal God, and it gave me a metaphysical basis for the dignity and worth of all human personality.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#2. It is as reasonable to represent one kind of imprisonment by another as it is to represent anything that really exists by that which exists not.

Daniel Defoe

#3. Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

Victor Hugo

#4. That's the hardest thing of all
never to become cynical, never to lose faith, never to become indifferent.

Sergei Lukyanenko

#5. A person is an entity of a sort to which the only proper and adequate way to relate is love

Pope John Paul II

#6. In a land where sport is sacred, Where the labourer is God, You must pander to the people, Make a hero of a clod.

Henry Lawson

#7. There's nothing or no one here that could possibly hurt the Fates - right, Mina?

Chanda Hahn

#8. They are the gateway for our modern esthetic development, the prophets of the new time. They are most of all, the primitives of the way they have begun; they have voiced most of all the imperative need of essential personalism, of direct expression of direct experience.

Marsden Hartley

#9. What do we mean by saying that existence precedes essence? We mean that man first of all exists, encounters himself, surges up in the world-and defines himself afterward.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#10. Pantheism identifies man with Nature. whether its visible appearance, or its abstract essence. Personalism isolates, separates him from Nature; converts him from a part into the whole, into an absolute essence by himself.

Ludwig Feuerbach

#11. Democracy is no solution - it's just 51% bossing the other 49% around. For God's sake, Hitler was democratically elected! Democracy is just mob rule dressed up in a coat and tie.

Doug Casey

#12. You are going to break your promise. I understand. And I hold my hands over the ears of my heart, so that I will not hate you.

Catherynne M Valente

#13. A lifetime of low calories has come naturally to the longest-lived people in the world ... in the Japanese archipelago of Okinawa.

S. Jay Olshansky

#14. Nothing exists except by virtue of a disequilibrium, an injustice. All existence is a theft paid for by other existences; no life flowers except on a cemetery.

Remy De Gourmont

#15. It was August 28th, 1963, and the greatest civil rights coalition in modern history had descended upon Washington. Hundreds of thousands of protesters trekked through the heat, stretching from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial.

Yvette Clarke