Reconceiving Quotes

#1. A revolution that leaves our conceptualization of self and world intact cannot bring other than temporary, superficial change. Only a much deeper revolution, a reconceiving of who we are, can reverse the crises of our age.

Charles Eisenstein

#2. Let me repeat that: Our civilization is constitutionally incapable of reversing the annihilation of natural capital, or even slowing it down. Get used to that. When we really understand that, the project of reconceiving civilization itself will gain powerful impetus.

Charles Eisenstein

#3. Embrace your grief. For there, your soul will grow.

Carl Jung

#4. I much prefer a plotted novel to a novel that is really conceptual.

Eleanor Catton

#5. I wanna have sex, Ayd. Lots and lots of sex ... with you and only you.

Jay Crownover

#6. Over time, you'll find that the more you trust your intuition and allow it to set your direction, the more you build that trust. Develop a habit of continually checking in with your intuition by asking yourself: Does this feel right to me?

Lauren Mackler

#7. Can a geology teacher blithely tell his students that the earth is flat, or a European history professor that the Holocaust didn't happen? That's not academic freedom, but dereliction of duty.

Jerry A. Coyne

#8. I'm going to strip my way through plumber's school. What do you think of the stage name Fine-Ass Frankie?

Rebecca Murphy

#9. You're beautiful, he said bluntly, and I didn't expect you to be.

Dianne K. Salerni

#10. As for the tank, not only is it unAmerican and probably subversive to eat without watching stereo but also the racket from it would interfere even with a directional mike aimed at us from a distance . . .

Robert A. Heinlein

#11. Prison for the crime of puberty
that was how secondary school had seemed.

David Brin

#12. Unless the great majority of Americans not only have, but believe they have, a fair chance, the better American future will be dangerously compromised.

Herbert Croly

#13. I think even though the court is moving toward trying to translate the Constitution into a digital age, there was that wonderful unanimous decision that Chief Justice Roberts wrote saying you can't search a cellphone on arrest without a warrant.

Jeffrey Rosen

#14. Life's funny that way, kind of like a dad who thinks it's hilarious to tie his kid up in a dark closet and leave him there for the weekend. Yeah,

Patrick Thomas