Quotes About Roszak

#1. Roszak argued that modern psychology has split the inner life from the outer life, and that we have repressed our "ecological unconscious" that provides "our connection to our evolution on earth.

Richard Louv

#2. It may, after all, be the bad habit of creative talents to invest themselves in pathological extremes that yield remarkable insights but no durable way of life for those who cannot translate their psychic wounds into significant art or thought.

Theodore Roszak

#3. Comedy pays the bills if I can't find a film.

Robin Williams

#4. We are nothing if we are not the sum total of our physique and the history of the actions of our physique
that we carry with us in body and in memory. (Body - Michael McClure)

Theodore Roszak

#5. I don't force it. If you don't have an idea and you don't hear anything going over and over in your head, don't sit down and try to write a song. You know, go mow the lawn ... My songs speak for themselves.

Neil Young

#6. That children shall be compelled to receive religious instruction which is in antagonism to the wishes of their parents, is what no man with say sense of justice would suggest.

Charles Tupper

#7. Nature composes some of her loveliest poems for the microscope and the telescope.

Theodore Roszak

#8. Nothing we ever imagined is beyond our powers, only beyond our present self-knowledge.

Theodore Roszak

#9. Even if we don't believe in church or God, we still believe in things that are bigger than ourselves. We need to believe in those things because if we can't be open to what we don't know, there's no hope for any of us.

Rachel Joyce

#10. The blood is our strength, for it is the power of the heavens and the Earth within us

Theodore Roszak

#11. Good magic opens the mysteries to all; bad magic seeks simply to mystify.

Theodore Roszak

#12. The art of cinema begins with scraping the chewing gum off the seats.

Theodore Roszak

#13. Meanwhile, as the party ascended to ever dizzier alcoholic altitudes ...

Theodore Roszak

#14. Found objects, chance creations, ready-mades (mass-produced items promoted into art objects, such as Duchamp's "Fountain"-urinal as sculpture) abolish the separation between art and life. The commonplace is miraculous if rightly seen.

Charles Simic

#15. Honor is venerable to us because it is no ephemeris. It is always ancient virtue. We worship it today because it is not of today.

Ralph Waldo Emerson