Adams, Douglas.

There is no problem about changing the course of history—the course of history does not change because it all fits together like a jigsaw....it all sorts itself out in the end.

The More Than Complete Hitchhiker's Guide.  (LM238, Longmeadow Pr., ,c1980, 1987), p. 213.

CHANGE; HISTORY; JIGSAW PUZZLES; TIME LINES; TIME TRAVEL

19890215

Adams, James L.

One of the better ways of covercoming such a block [the fear of taking a risk] is to realistically assess the possible negative consequences of an idea.

Conceptual Blockbusting, 2nd ed.  (PJ201, ) p. 42.

BLOCKAGES; CONSEQUENCES - NEGATIVE; FEARS; RISK TAKING

19801210

Addison, Joseph.

A man of polite imagination is let into a great many pleasures that the vulgar are not capable of receiving.  He can converse with a picture, and find an agreeable companion in a statue.  He meets with a secret refreshment in a description, and often finds a greater satisfaction in the prospect of fields and meadows, than another does in the possession.

In:  Eliot, T. S.  The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism, 2nd ed.  (FIUGL, Faber & Faber, 1964, 1933) p. 60.

COMPANIONSHIP; FIELDS; IMAGINATION; MEADOWS; PICTURES; PLEASURE; POSSESSION; STATUES

20050705

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Aeschylus.

Times there be when fear is good.

Eumenides, (Murray, Gilbert, trans.)

in:   Bultmann, Rudolf.  Primitive Christianity in its Contemporary Setting (PQ150, 1957) p. 109.

FEAR

20030117

For who that hath no fear is safe from sin?

Eumenides, (Murray, Gilbert, trans.)

in:   Bultmann, Rudolf.  Primitive Christianity in its Contemporary Setting (PQ150, 1957) p. 110.

FEAR; MOTIVATION; SIN

20030117

Albright, William Foxwell.

No stable government can coexist with blood feuds.

The Biblical Period from Abraham to Ezra (PG132, Harper, 1963), p. 52.

FEUDS; GOVERNMENT; STABILITY

19840300

Both prophets [Amos & Hosea] are horrified by the selfish luxury, the immorality and the oppression of the poor that they see around them, but neither of them ever makes the modern mistake of distinguishing sharply between individual morality and social welfare.  In that relatively simple age it was clear enough that each entailed the other; neither was possible alone.

The Biblical Period from Abraham to Ezra (PG132, Harper, 1963), p. 72.

MORALITY; SOCIETY; WELFARE, SOCIAL

19840300

Allen, Dave.

If man has a sense of humor about God then surely God must have a sense of humor about man.

"Dave Allen At Large," BBC.

Aired on Miami Channel 2, WPBT, October 18, 1984.

GOD; HUMOR; MAN

19841018

Allingham, Margery.

A great deal has been written about the forthrightness of the moderns shocking the Victorians, but there is no shock like the one which the forthrightness of the Victorians can give a modern.

Black Plumes (FIU, 1940), p. 5.

FORTHRIGHTNESS; MODERNS; SHOCKS, SOCIAL; VICTORIANS

19940303

Allport, Gordon.

Thinking creatively with symbols is something beyond responding to signals.

In:  Clift, Wallace B.  Jung and Chritianity (PK274, ), p. 52.

SIGNS &: SIGNALS; SYMBOLS; THINKING

19840916

Anderson, Neil T., and Mylander, Charles.

If we had to first become perfect before we could have a relationship with God, then we would all be doomed.  If we had to stay perfect in order to remain His children, we would likewise be doomed.

Blessed Are the Peace Makers (HQ280, Regal, n.d.), p. 31.

GOD & MAN; GOD & RECONCILIATION; PERFECTION; RELATIONSHIPS, SPIRITUAL

20040815

Anderson, Poul.

A life which included no improbable events would be the real statistical impossibility.

A Circus of Hells (PM210, 1970), p. 7.

LIFE; IMPROBABILITY; IMPOSSIBILITY, STATISTICAL

19960300

The highest interhuman art is to make it possible for others to use their arts.

The Enemy Stars (PK021, n.d.), p. 119.

ART

n.d.

The hero is the child of his times, in that his milieu gives him his motives and means.  Yet he seizes the world as he finds it and reshapes it as he will; and he remains eternally an enigma to his contemporaries and to the future.

"Captive of the Centaurianess",

In his:  The Gods Laughed (PK284, ), p. 149.

ENIGMAS; HEROES; MOTIVES

19830331

But only poets recognize myths for what they are, and who really listens to poets?

Orion Shall Rise (PL014, ), p. 200.

MYTHS; POETS

19850212

"Don't sound that smug," Chee grumbled.  "You didn't cause the event.  You are not the Omnipotent:  a fact which often reconciles me to the universe."

Satan's World (PH236, , 1969), p. 98.

GOD; MORTALS; SMUGNESS

19880428

However, Homo can truly be called sapiens when he practices his specialty of being unspecialized.  His repeated attempts to freeze himself into an all-answering pattern or culture or ideology, or whatever he has named it, have repeatedly brought ruin.  Give him the pragmatic business of making his living and he will usually do rather well.  He adapts, within broad limits.

"The Queen of Air and Darkness",

In his:  Winners (PK009, TOR, 1981), p. 203.

ADAPTABILITY; CREATIVITY; HUMANS; IDEOLOGIES; SPECIALIZATION

19810000

People who hate each other can still strike bargains.  But conflictin' loves are something else.

"Hugh Valland",

In his:  World Without Stars (PM??, ), p. 98.

COMPROMISES; HATE; LOVE &: HATE

19870728

Anthony, Piers.

An adult was essentially a broken-down child.

Centaur Aisle, (PK281, n.d.), p. 9.

ADULTS; CHILDREN

n.d.

It doesn't matter that the Demon would not free me, were our positions reversed; I am not a Demon, and shall not act like one.  It only matters that a man does not stand by and allow a wrong he perceives to continue.

The Source of Magic, (PK285, ), p. 268.

ACTIONS; DEMONS; MEN; POSITIONS REVERSED; RIGHT & WRONG

19840300

What you sought in the wild oats was a shortcut--but in life there are no shortcuts.

A Spell for Chameleon, (PK002, ), p. 18.

LIFE; SHORTCUTS; WILD OATS, SOWING

19840100

Arieti, Silvano.

However, creativity is not simply originality and unlimited. freedom.  There is much more to it than that.  Creativity also imposes restrictions.  While it uses methods other than those of ordinary thinking, it must not be in disagreement with ordinary thinking--or rather, it must be something that, sooner or later, ordinary thinking will understand, accept, and appreciate.  Otherwise the result would be bizarre, not creative.

Creativity:  The Magic Synthesis, (PK002, Basic Books, 1976), p. 4.

BIZARRE; CREATIVITY; ORIGINALITY; THINKING

19840100

Whereas theologians and religious people in general believe that God's creation comes ex nihilo, from spatial and temporal nothingness, human creativity uses what is already existing and available and changes it in unpredictable ways.

Creativity:  The Magic Synthesis, (PK002, Basic Books, 1976), p. 4.

CREATION; CREATIVITY - SOURCES

19840100

Indeed, it is the perennial (and almost always unverbalized) premise of creativity, to show that the tangible, visible, and audible universe is infinitesimal in comparison to the one that awaits discovery through exploration of the external world and of the human psyche.

Creativity:  The Magic Synthesis, (PK002, Basic Books, 1976), p. 5.

CREATIVITY

19840100

The creative process is a way of fulfilling the longing or search for a new object or state of experience or existence that is not easily found or attained....Especially in aesthetic creativity, the work often represents not only the new object but this longing, this indefinite search, this sustained and yet never completed effort, which has a conscious and an unconscious motivation.

Creativity:  The Magic Synthesis, (PK002, Basic Books, 1976), p. 6.

CREATIVITY - MOTIVATIONS; LONGING; NEWNESS; SEARCHING

19840100

Aristotle.

The historian describes what happened; the poet shows what might have happened, and so poetry is a more philosophical and serious activity than historical writing.

Poetica;

In:  Herm, Gerhard.  The Celts. (HJ121, 1976), p. 274.

HISTORY; POETRY

C1980

Armstrong, Neil.

One small step for a man—one giant leap for mankind.

Broadcast from the moon, July 20, 1969.

ACHIEVEMENTS; LEAPS; MANKIND; MEN; MOON, THE; STEPS

19690720

Asimov, Isaac.

...the only people that inherited anything by right of birth were the congenital idiots.

Foundation and Empire.  P. 120.

In:  The Foundation Trilogy.  (PJ206, Avon, 1974)

BIRTHRIGHTS; IDIOTS; INHERITED STATUS

19850416

The "psychology" of scientists brought up among the axioms deduced from the observational habits of physical science has only the vaguest relationship to PSYCHOLOGY.

Second Foundation, 1953.  P. 16.

In:  The Foundation Trilogy  (PJ206, Avon, 1974).

AXIOMS; OBSERVATION; PHYSICS; PSYCHOLOGY; SCIENTISTS

19850418

Atchity, Kenneth.

The challenge of surviving as a writer lies in learning not to avoid anxiety but to cope with it and make its energy positive.

A Writer's Time. (PM003, Norton, 1986), p. 4.

ANXIETY; WRITING

19860700

That's what imagination is for:  to go in advance so action can follow.

A Writer's Time. (PM003, Norton, 1986), p. 37.

ACTIONS; IMAGINATION

19860700

Auden, W. H.

Earth, receive an honored guest;
William Yeats is laid to rest:
Let the Irish vessel lie
Emptied of it poetry.

"In Memory of W.B. Yeats,"

In:  Untermeyer, Louis, ed.  A Concise Treasury of Great Poems. (PG105, Pocket Books, 1958), p. 525.

DEATH; EARTH; EPITAPHS; GUESTS; IRELAND; POETS; YEATS, WILLIAM BUTLER

20041026

Augustine of Hippo, St.

It shames you perhaps to imitate a humble man; imitate, then, the humble God.  The Son of God came in a man and was made humble:  that teaches you to be humble, it does not teach you to make man a beast.

"Tractatus in Joannem, XXV.16,

In:  Louth, Andrew.  The Origins of the Christian Mystical Tradition. (FIUGL, Clarendon Pr., 1981), pp. 155-6.

BEASTS; HUMILITY; JESUS THE CHRIST; MAN; ROLE MODELS

20050123

Avendon, Richard.

The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer fact but an opinion. There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.

In: The Chronicle of Higher Education. (July 10, 1991), p. B2.

ACCURACY; FACTS; OPINIONS; PHOTOGRAPHS; TRUTH

19910712

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