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Sabatini, Raphael.

"It is not human to be wise," said Blood.

Captain Blood (HK221, Triangle Bks, 1946; 1922), p. 116.

WISDOM

19840200

An intelligent observation of the facts of human existence will reveal to shallow-minded folk who sneer at the use of coincidence in the arts of fiction and drama that life itself is little more than a series of coincidences.

Captain Blood (HK227, Blakiston, 1946, 1922), p. 172.

COINCIDENCES

19840200

There was a great historian lost in Wolverstone.  He had the right imagination that knows just how far it is safe to stray from the truth and just how far to colour it so as to change its shape for his own purposes.

Captain Blood (HK227, Blakiston, 1946, 1922), p. 255.

HISTORIANS

19840200

Saberhagen, Fred.

Under the weariness and grief he still had his tremendous assurance--not of being right...but of being committed to right.

"Stone Place" (1967) in The Beserker Wars (PP027 1981), p. 91.

RIGHTNESS; RIGHTEOUSNESS; FAITH

19990406

Samuelson, Robert J.

We Americans are great optimists.  No one has yet devised a preventative for death, but we keep looking.

"The Great Cereal Wars";  in:  Newsweek (PP027 1981), p. 49.

AMERICAN CULTURE - DEATH; DEATH; IMMORTALITY; OPTIMISM

19870903

Sansom, George.

Here [in the legend of Yamato-dake] are all the elements that were to stir Japanese emotions in later times: the handsome young fighting man, the queller of evil, combining bravery with wily strategems; the loyal mistress; the magic sword; the wicked deities in animal disguise; the suffering, the self-sacrifice, and the pathetic early death.

A History of Japan to 1334 (PK032 1958), p. 21.

JAPAN - HEROES; SELF-SACRIFICE; SUFFERING

19980717

Indeed the student of history will find that the stability of the great civilizations of Asia has depended in no small degree upon the prevalence of a coherent view of the universe. Such a view may appear, to those who do not hold it, mistaken and even absurd, but so long as it offers a plausible description of the pattern of existence a man who adopts it is free from the pains of doubt and uncertainty. He can accept with equanimity or resignation his place in the grand order of nature.

A History of Japan to 1334 (PK032 1958), p. 108.

COSMOLOGY; DOUBT; ORDER; ASIA

19980726

...because a military society is bound to seek military solutions to its problems. That is its curse.

A History of Japan, 1334-1615 (PJ273, 1961), p. 212.

MILITARY GOVERNMENT

19990724

The complex social hierarchy demanded a strict etiquette in social relations, which was burdensome but had the merit of encouraging courteous behaviour.

A History of Japan 1615-1867 (PK044, 1963), p. 31.

COURTESY; ETIQUETTE - JAPAN; JAPAN - SOCIAL ORDER; SOCIAL ORDER - JAPAN

19990911

Sayers, Dorothy. 

"Must have facts," said Lord Peter, "facts.  When I was a small boy I always hated facts.  Thought of 'em as nasty, hard things, all knobs. Uncompromisin'."

Clouds of Witness (HM#, ), p. 63.

FACTS

19860728

"Yes, my lord.  My old mother..../always says...that facts are like cows.  If you look them in the face hard enough they generally run away.  She is a very courageous woman, my lord."

Clouds of Witness (HM#, ), pp. 63-4.

COWS; FACTS

19860728

But peace is in the mind, and not in the streets, however old and beautiful.

Gaudy Night.  (PJ121, Avon, 1968), p. 229.

BEAUTY; MIND;PEACE; STREETS

19840100

The only Christian work is good work well done.

In:  Mary Brian Durkin.  Dorothy L. Sayers (1980), p. 178.

CHRISTIAN; QUALITY; WORK

19850628

The only fruitful line of thought to follow is, I think, to bear in mind that forgiveness has no necessary concern with payment or non-payment of reparations; its aim is the establishment of a free relationship.

"Forgiveness";

In her:  Unpopular Opinions (FIUL, Harcourt Brace, 1957), p. 15.

FORGIVENESS; FREEDOM; RELATIONSHIPS, PERSONAL; REPARATIONS

19841117

The Church as a body has never made up her mind about the Arts, and it is hardly too much to say that she has never tried.

"Towards a Christian Aesthetic";

In her:  Unpopular Opinions (FIUL, Harcourt Brace, 1957), p. 29.

ART & RELIGION; CHRISTIANITY - THE ARTS

19841117

The English are probably the only people in the world who actually make a boast of mongrel ancestry.

"Dr. Watson's Christian Name";

In her:  Unpopular Opinions (FIUL, Harcourt Brace, 1957), p. 150.

ANCESTRY; ENGLISH [NATIONALITY]

19841117

Somehow or other, and with the best intentions, we have shown the world the typical Christian in the likeness of a crashing and rather ill-natured bore--and this in the name of one who assuredly never bored a soul in those thirty-three years during which he passed through the world like a flame.

The Whimsical Christian (PM198, Macmillan, 1987, 1978), p. 27.

CHRISTIANS - STEREOTYPES; CHRISTIANITY; JESUS THE CHRIST

19880220

At this point...we shall do well to reply boldly that a faith is not primarily a comfort, but a truth about ourselves.  What we in fact believe is not necessarily the theory we most desire or admire.  It is the thing that, consciously or unconsciously, we take for granted and act on.

The Whimsical Christian (PM198, Macmillan, 1987, 1978), p. 30.

COMFORT; FAITH - DEFINITIONS; TRUTH

19880220

Schmidt, Thomas.

Love offers to suffer, it noes not require suffering from others.

A Scandalous Beauty.  (HR083, Brazos Pr, 2002), p. 55.

LOVE; SUFFERING

20071117

The words of Jesus and the thoughts behind them are too grisly and too deep and too unsafe for a disciple to invent.

A Scandalous Beauty.  (HR083, Brazos Pr, 2002), p. 98.

DISCIPLES; GRISLY; JESUS THE CHRIST - MESSAGE; SAFETY; WORDS

20071201

Certain recent historical developments, however, have led many Christians to forget that God loves not only with substance but also with style.

A Scandalous Beauty.  (HR083, Brazos Pr, 2002), p. 112.

CHRISTIANS; GOD - COMMUNICATION; GOD - LOVE; LOVE; STYLE & STYLISH

20071208

Schulz, Charles M.

I preach in these cartoons, and I reserve the same right to say what I want to say as the minister in the pulpit.

Writer's Yearbook (1965), p. 46.

ART, CHRISTIAN; CARTOONS - MESSAGE & MEANING; PREACHING; WORK

19740000

If we are all members of the priesthood, why cannot a cartoonist preach in the same manner as a minister, or anyone else?

In:  Short, Robert.  The Parables of Peanuts (PB252, Fawcett, 1968), p. 21.

CARTOONISTS; EVANGELISM; MINISTERS; PREACHING; PRIESTS

19770000

Schwarzwalder, Robert.

If we as a profession continue on our present course, we will abandon the most promising futures open to us, and abandon those of our colleagues in non-traditional roles to stagnation and decline.

"The Technophile,"

in:  E Content (Feb-March, 2000) p. 60.

LIBRARIANS - CAREERS; LIBRARIES

20010804

What distinguishes the successful corporate information centers from their dismantled counterparts is a focus on customer requirements.

"The Technophile,"

in:  E Content (Feb-March, 2000) p. 61.

INFORMATION CENTERS, CORPORATE; LIBRARIES; SUCCESS

20010804

Schweitzer, Albert.

A heavy guilt rests upon us for what the whites of all nations have done to the colored peoples.  When we do good to them, it is not benevolence--it is attonement.

In:  O'Brien, Rev. John A.  "God's Eager Fool,"

Originally published in Reader's Diges, March, 1946;

In  The 30th Anniversary Reader's Digest Reader (HH142, Readers Digest, 19??), p. 100.

ATTONEMENT; AFRICAN-WHITE RELATIONS; RACE

19840730

Scogginsr, B. Elmo.

There is only one generation between faith and paganism.

"Micah,"

In  The Broadman Bible Commentary, vol. 7.  (HH55, Broadman Pr., 1972), p. 200.

CHANGE; FAITH; PAGANISM; RELIGION - GENERATIONS

19850518

Seattle.

When the last red man shall have perished, and the memory of my tribe shall have become a myth among the white men, these shores will swarm with the invisible dead of my tribe.... The white man will never be along.  Let him be just and deal kindly with my people, for the dead are not powerless.

In:  Grosvenor, Gilbert M.  "Forward,"

The World of the American Indian (HJ065, National Geographic Society, ), p. 9.

DEAD, THE; INDIANS, AMERICAN; WHITE MEN

19840420

Segler, Franklin M.

Christians should neither be afraid of ecstasy nor yet rely too much upon it.

A Pailful of Stars (HH92, Broadman Pr, 1972), p. 28.

CHRISTIANS; ECSTASY

19770000

God's visitation of power and grace is his gift and not our achievement.  To praise him and to learn truth from him is our business.  The giving of power and ecstasy is his business.

A Pailful of Stars (HH92, Broadman Pr, 1972), p. 28.

CHRISTIANS; ECSTASY; GOD'S PRESENCE; GIFTS; POWER; PRAISE; TRUTH

19770000

Seife, Charles.

Zero is powerful because it is infinity's twin.  They are equal and opposite, yin and yang.  They are equally paradoxical and troubling.

Zero:  The Biography of a Dangerous Idea.  (FIUGL, Viking, 2000), p. 2.

INFINITY; OPPOSITES; PARADOXES; ZEROES

20050718

Worst of all, if you wantonly divide by zero, you can destroy the entire foundation of logic and mathematics.  Dividing by zero once--just one time--allows you to prove, mathematically, anything at all in the universe.

Zero:  The Biography of a Dangerous Idea.  (FIUGL, Viking, 2000), p. 23.

DIVISION; LOGIC; MATHEMATICS; PROOFS; ZEROES

20050718

Selden, John.

Few men make themselves masters of the things they write or speak.

Learning;

In:  DiGaetani, John L., et al.  Writing Out Loud. (FIUL, Dow Jones-Irwin, 1983), p. 57.

EXPERTISE; MASTERY; SPEAKING; WRITING

19870526

Seneca, Lucius Annaeus.

Praise and imitate that man to whom, while life is pleasing, death is not grievous.

Ep. liv,

In:  Lewis, C.S.  The Abolition of Man. (PH171, Macmillan, 1965), p. 118.

LIFE & DEATH; ROLE MODELS

n.d.

Sennsert III, Pharoah.

To take no notice of a violent attack is to strengthen the heart of an enemy.  Vigour [sic] is valiant, but cowardice is vile.

In:  Hall, H.R.  Ancient History of the Near East, p. 161.

In:  Lewis, C.S.  The Abolition of Man (PH171, Macmillan, 1965), pp. 117-8.

ATTACKS; COWARDICE; ENEMIES; VIGOR; VIOLENCE

n.d.

Service, Robert W.

And somehow you're sick of the highway, with its noise and its easy needs,
And you seek the risk of the by-way, and you reck not where it leads.

"The Lone Trail," in The Spell of the Yukon (HK166, 1916), p. 46.

ADVENTURE; HIGHWAYS; EASE; RISK

19831200

Shaw, George Bernard.

Today's man is a man who knows more and more about less and less.

In:  The Faith Letters (HJ045, Word, 1978), p. 45.

KNOWLEDGE - GROWTH; MAN, MODERN; SCIENTIFIC EXPLORATION

19830500

Sheckley, Robert.

And Blaine brooded over the disadvantages inherent in all advantages.

Immortality, Inc., (1958)

In:   Dimensions of Sheckley (HQ169, NESFA Press, 2002), p. 59.

ADVANTAGES; DISADVANTAGES; PROGRESS

20030505

Sheen, Fulton (Bishop).

Ecological garbage is only the outward sign of moral garbage piled up in the hearts of men.

Those Mysterious Priests (1974),

in: "Reflections," Christianity Today (November 11, 1989), p. 34.

ECOLOGY; GARBAGE; MORALITY

19891108

Sheler, Jeffrey L..

Rather than suggesting a direct relationship between Christianity and the Judaism of Qumran, however, these similarities serve as a vivid reminder that these two contemporaneous movements sprouted from the same religious soil. ¶ For some scholars, that realization not only underscores the Jewish roots of Christianity but adds weight for the early dating and authenticity of the gospels--particularly for the frequently assailed gospel of John.

Is the Bible True?   (RP, Harper SF, 1999), p. 166.

CHRISTIANITY - ORIGINS; DEAD SEA SCROLLS; GOSPELS - DATING;GOSPEL OF JOHN; JUDAISM; QUMRAN

20030415

Short, Robert L.

The heart's basic devotion is blind; it can see no other master....  The heart cannot choose another master because choice is always made on the basis of an ultimate criterion or standard that is so twisted.

The Parables of Peanuts (PB252, Fawcett, 1968), p. 87.

CHOICE; DEVOTION; MASTERS

1970??00

Ecclesiastes is in perfect agreement with all the rest of the Bible that without radically new help from outside, man's situation is radically desperate and hopeless.

A Time to Be Born--A Time to Die (????), p. 103.

ECCLESIASTES; MAN'S SITUATION; SIN

19760000

Sienkewicz, Thomas J.

So the discussion of myth is no frivolous matter.  It confronts us not only with history but with deity, forcing us to rethink our views of truth and religion.

World Mythology.  (FIUGL, Scarecrow Pr, 1996), p. 7.

GOD; HISTORY; MYTHS; RELIGIONS; TRUTH

20050811

Simon, Paul.

My words trickle down
From a wound that I have no intention to heal...."

"Blessed",

In the albumn   Simon and Garfunkle.  Sounds of Silence.

DESPAIR; HURT

197300000

Smart, James D.

The Bible cannot be left in an ancient setting; it has to be focused upon the actualities of the modern world.

The Teaching Ministry of the Church. (PG133, Westminster, 1954), p. 152.

BIBLE, HOLY; MODERN WORLD

20030904

Smith, Alexander.

Memorable sentences are memorable on account of some single irradiating word.

On the Writing of Essays,

in:  DiGaetani, John L., et al., Writing Out Loud (FIU, Dow Jones Irwin, 1983), p. 109.

MEMORY; SENTENCE; WRITING

19870526

Smith, Bradley F.

As the C.I.A.'s David Phillips recently remarked, the major tool of the intelligence trade is the 3 by 5 index card, not the gun or the knife, for only through the organization and study of individual pieces of information does an agency learn anything worth knowing.

The Shadow Warriors (HK240, ), p. 361.

ESPIONAGE; INDEX CARDS; INFORMATION; INTELLIGENCE SERVICES; ORGANIZATION; WEAPONS

19871100

Smith, Opal.

The best safety device in a car is a rear-view mirror with a policeman in it.

in:  The Courier Journal Magazine (June 17, 1984), p. 22.

AUTOMOBILES - SAFETY; POLICE

19740000

Sommer, Theo.

It was the acceptance of defeat that made them free for the task of reconstruction and the admission of past guilt that allowed them to face the future.

"A View from Germany,"

in:  Newsweek (May 6, 1985), p. 22.

DEFEAT; FUTURE, FACING THE; GUILT; RECONSTRUCTION

19850501

Sommerfelt, Alf.

It is not only that formal time-units are different in different societyies, it is the concept of time itself and its importance in social life that differ.

Diachronic and Synchronic Aspects of Language.  (the Hague, s.p., 1962), p. 122;

In:  Wilder, Amos N.  Jesus' Parables and the War of Myths, ed. James Breech. (Bapt. College of Florida, Fortress Press, 1982), p. 125.

CONCEPTS; DIFFERENCES; SOCIAL ATTITUDES; SOCIETIES; TIME

20070618

Sonden, David.

In a materialistic world, trade is seen as an economic fact of life; but trade and exchange among many peoples is just as much a way of establishing and cementing social relations, or expressing political superiority or inferiority.

Stonehenge Revealed (HP181 1997), p. 108.

TRADE; EXCHANGE; ECONOMICS; SOCIAL RELATIONS

19980121

Spangler, Ann.

To oppose God is to encounter him ultimately as a terror,....

Praying the Names of God.  (HQ461, Zondervan, 2004), p. 125.

GOD; OPPOSITION; TERRORS

20060401

Spooner, John D.

The stock market is an Alice-in-Wonderland business.  It really has nothing at all to do with housing starts, money supply, auto sales or interest rates.  It has to do with emotions...fear and greed.

Miami News. (April 8, 1985), p. 1.

EMOTIONS; FEAR; GREED; INVESTING; STOCK MARKETS

19850408

Stasheff, Christopher.

Faith!  When all reasoning was stripped away, and a man had to confront himself, his gut response gave the truth of what he believed.

Her Majesty's Wizard.  (PQ503, Del Rey/Ballantine, 1986), p. 271.

BELIEF; FAITH - DEFINITIONS; REASON

20050621

Steere, Douglas, V.

...his function as a writer [is] to strip men of their disguises, to compel them to see evasions for what they are, to label blind alleys, to cut off men's retreats, to tear down the niggardly roofs they continued to build over their precious sundials, to isolate men from the crowd, to enforce self-examination, and to bring them solitary and alone before the Eternal.  Here he left them.  For here that in man which makes him a responsible individual must itself actor it must take flight.  No other can make this decision.  Only when man is along can he fact the Eternal.

"Translator's Preface,"

Kierkegaard, Søren.  Purity of Heart Is to Will One Thing. (PF11, Harper, 1956), p. 16.

DECISIONS; GOD & MAN; KIERKEGAARD, SØREN

19730000

Steele, Richard.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

Letters to His Wife.

In:  Di Gaetani, John L., DiGaetani, Jane Boisseau, Harbert, Earl N. Writing Out Loud. (FIUGL, Dow Jones-Irwin, c1983)

EXERCISE; MIND; READING

19870526

Steinsaltz, Adin.

Egalitarian ideas are not supported by any evidence.  The inequality of man is blatantly apparent.  The only way one can find any support for the idea of equality is in a very difficulty religious concept:  the concept that people are born in the image of the Lord and are therefore equal.

"Becoming Unstable/Hierachy & Evolution:  An Interview with Adin Steinsaltz,"

In:  Parabola, (IX:1; Winter 1984), p. 8.

BIRTHS; EQUALITY; INEQUALITY; IMAGES OF GOD

20050801

On one level my mind is made up about whether it wants to be for or against something.  Then it creates the network and the building blocks for my basic attitude.  Later, some kind of appropriate emotion arises.  Because emotion is secondary, in order to develop it needs something to build upon.  If I don't have any picture of whatever it is, I cannot have any emotion—love or hatred—or even reverence.

"Becoming Unstable/Hierachy & Evolution:  An Interview with Adin Steinsaltz,"

In:  Parabola, (IX:1; Winter 1984), p. 10.

ATTITUDE--DEVELOPMENT; DECISIONS; EMOTIONS--DEVELOPMENT; INTELLECT; VALUES

20050801

Free will is an element of disorder.  It is also the only element of advancement.

"Becoming Unstable/Hierachy & Evolution:  An Interview with Adin Steinsaltz,"

In:  Parabola, (IX:1; Winter 1984), p. 12.

CHAOS; DISORDERS; FREE WILL; PROGRESS

20050801

Advance is not in terms of "fitness"; if evolution is simply a matter of the survival of the fittest, it would have stopped at the cockroach.  But there is a different striving, for more consciousness; and in this way we may say we have something above the cockroach.

"Becoming Unstable/Hierachy & Evolution:  An Interview with Adin Steinsaltz,"

In:  Parabola, (IX:1; Winter 1984), p. 15.

COCKROACHES; CONSCIOUSNESS; EVOLUTION; STRIVING; SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST

20050801

Stephens, James.

As the day packed its load of strength into his frame, so it added its store of knowledge to his mind, and each night sealed the twain, for it is in the night that we make secure what we have gathered in the day.

"The Salmon of Knowledge,"

In:  Irish Fairy Tales.  (The Macmillan Co., 1945),

In:  Parabola, (IX:4; Winter, 1984), p. 82.

KNOWLEDGE; NIGHT; STRENGTH

20050803

Stephenson, Neal.

Crying loudly is childish, in that it reflects a belief, on the cryer's part, that someone is around to hear the noise, and come a-running to make it all better.  Crying in absolute silence, as Daniel does this morning, is the mark of the mature sufferer who no longer nurses, nor is nursed by, any such comfortable delusions.

Quicksilver.  (PR200, Harper Torch, 2006, 2003), p. 205.

ADULTS; BELIEFS; CHILDREN; DELUSIONS; WEEPING & CRYING

20070607

Stevens, Anthony.

All symbols, even the most ancient of them, are experienced in a manner unique to the person who produces them;....

Ariadne's Clue:  A Guide to the Symbols of Humankind.  (FIUGL, Princeton University Pr., 1999), p. xi.

SYMBOLS - PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; SYMBOLS - UNIQUENESS

20070330

So a distinction has to be made between a thing and its symbolic value.  A thing is a thing.  Its symbolic value is derived from the / meanings it evokes in us.  In other words, a thing becomes a symbol when something has been added to it....it loads it with an increased weight of meaning.

Ariadne's Clue:  A Guide to the Symbols of Humankind.  (FIUGL, Princeton University Pr., 1999), p. 6.

MEANING; SYMBOLS - DEFINITIONS; THINGS; VALUES, SYMBOLIC

20070515

This obsolete view [the human mind as tabla rasa] is now crumbling before the onslaught of evolutionary psychologists...and evolutionary psychiatrists,...who hold that the human mind evolved the capacity to think, use symbols, develop explanations, and create myths as the result of selection pressure encountered by our species in the course of its evolutionary history.

Ariadne's Clue:  A Guide to the Symbols of Humankind.  (FIUGL, Princeton University Pr., 1999), p. 10.

EVOLUTION, HUMAN; EXPLANATIONS; MIND - DEVELOPMENT; MYTHS - ORIGINS; PSYCHOLOGISTS & PSYCHIATRISTS; SYMBOLS; TABLA RASA; THINKING

20070515

To accept Eliade's term 'the logic of symbols' is not to imply / that symbol-creation is a rational exercise, in the sense of science, mathematics, or deductive logic, but merely that the symbol-forming psyche, like the heart, has its reasons—archetypal reasons—which are, au fond, biological and adaptive, though we experience the consequences as spirtitual, emotional, and intuitive.

Ariadne's Clue:  A Guide to the Symbols of Humankind.  (FIUGL, Princeton University Pr., 1999), pp. 15-16.

ADAPTATIONS - PSYCHOLOGICAL; ARCHETYPES; BIOLOGY; EMOTIONS; "LOGIC OF SYMBOLS"; MIND & BODY; PSYCHE; REASONS; SPIRITUAL LIFE; SYMBOLS - CREATION

20070705

Like all psychobiological capacities, symbol formation has an adaptive function:  it promotes our grasp on reality.  It enables us not just to adapt passively to reality but to master it, to adjust reality to our needs.

(Compare with Roger Zelazny, ZELAZRJS105.)

Ariadne's Clue:  A Guide to the Symbols of Humankind.  (FIUGL, Princeton University Pr., 1999), p. 16.

ADAPTATIONS; MIND & BODY; NEEDS; REALITY; SYMBOLS - CREATION

20070705

What the dictionaries and encyclopaedias of symbols have hitherto failed to recognize is that symbolism has its roots in neurology and the evolutionary history of our species as much as in the ancient religious and artistic traditions of human culture.

Ariadne's Clue:  A Guide to the Symbols of Humankind.  (FIUGL, Princeton University Pr., 1999), p. 28.

ART - SYMBOLS; CULTURE - SYMBOLS; EVOLUTION, HUMAN; NEUROLOGY - SYMBOLS; RELIGION - SYMBOLS; SYMBOLS - ORIGINS

20070330

Both enable us to formulate and communicate our thoughts and feelings, but symbols can combine many disparate elements into a unitary expression, while numerous words are needed to deal with one thought at a time.  Symbols tolerate paradox and can combine contradictory ideas; words are about one thing or another.  Symbols awake intimations; words explain.

Ariadne's Clue:  A Guide to the Symbols of Humankind.  (FIUGL, Princeton University Pr., 1999), p. 29.

COMMUNICATION; CONTRADICTIONS; EMOTIONS; EXPLANATIONS; INTIMATIONS; PARADOXES; SYMBOLS - QUALITIES; THOUGHTS; WORDS - QUALITIES

20070330

Every symbol has an aesthetic quality; its meaning is felt as well as understood.  As a result we experience symbols as powers as well as communications.

Ariadne's Clue:  A Guide to the Symbols of Humankind.  (FIUGL, Princeton University Pr., 1999), p. 30.

AESTHETICS - SYMBOLS; COMMUNICATON; FEELING; POWER; SYMBOLS - QUALITIES; UNDERSTANDING

20070330

Although we know little of the neurophysiology of symbol creation, the psychic processes involved are better understood.  Essentially, these involve three principles:  resemblance, condensation, and the microcosmic principle.

Ariadne's Clue:  A Guide to the Symbols of Humankind.  (FIU, Princeton University Pr., 1999), p. 37.

CONDENSATION; MICROCOSMIC PRINCIPLE; RESEMBLANCE; SYMBOLS - CREATION

20070723

Even the most widely dispersed, most indestructible symbols will have different shades of meaning for each psyche in which they appear, for symbols, like dreams of which they are part, are polyvalent:  they have more than one meaning.

Ariadne's Clue:  A Guide to the Symbols of Humankind.  (FIUGL, Princeton University Pr., 1999), p. 39.

ARCHETYPES; DREAMS - MEANINGS; POLYVALENCE; SYMBOLS - MEANINGS

20070723

As one reads of ancient cosmologies, one realizes that the latest scientific theories of the origins of the universe are primordial religious ideas in modern dress.

Ariadne's Clue:  A Guide to the Symbols of Humankind.  (FIUGL, Princeton University Pr., 1999), p. 73.

[Compare with Fred Alan Wolf's quotation:  WOLFFATQL06, as well as Steven's STEVEAAC195.]

CLOTHING; COSMOLOGIES, ANCIENT; MODERN WORLD; RELIGION; UNIVERSE - ORIGINS

20070323

To feel the power of a symbol is to enter a world of make-believe.

Ariadne's Clue:  A Guide to the Symbols of Humankind.  (FIUGL, Princeton University Pr., 1999), p. 76.

MAKE-BELIEVE; POWER; SYMBOLS - POWER

20070330

It was Jung's empirical discovery that 'living the symbolic life'—that is, being constantly alive to the symbolic meaning of events both / in waking and dreaming reality—greatly enhances realization of the Self.

Ariadne's Clue:  A Guide to the Symbols of Humankind.  (FIUGL, Princeton University Pr., 1999), pp. 77-8.

EVENTS; JUNG, C. G.; LIFE; REALITIES; SELF, THE; SYMBOLS - MEANING

20070330

Therapy, [C.G. Jung] said, is less a matter of treatment than of developing the creative, symbolic talents latent in the patient.  Creative vitality, he discovered, was best served when the patient's symbols were amplified through the discovery of cultural and archetypal parallels, rarther than analysing them reductively in the Freudian manner and attributing them to already experienced events.

Ariadne's Clue:  A Guide to the Symbols of Humankind.  (FIUGL, Princeton University Pr., 1999), p. 81.

ANALYTICAL PSYCHOLOGY; CREATIVITY; FREUD, SIGMUND; JUNG, C. G.; PSYCHOANALYSIS; SYMBOLS - INTERPRETATION; TALENTS; THERAPY, PSYCHOLOGICAL

20070330

Archetypal symbols are products of biocultural evolution—an evolutionary process in which genes and culture interact.  The thesis of gene encounters the antithesis of culture to produce the synthesis of archetypal symbolism.

[Quote continued by next quote, STEVEAAC81z.]

Ariadne's Clue:  A Guide to the Symbols of Humankind.  (FIUGL, Princeton University Pr., 1999), p. 81.

ARCHETYPES; CULTURE; EVOLUTION; GENES; SYMBOLS - ORIGINS; THESIS-ANTITHESIS

20070323

The prevailing prejudice for most of this century has insisted that symbols are simply manifestations of the culture / generating them, but this one-sided view is both misguided and outdated.  Like language and religion, symbols are a hybrid of culture and genes. 

Ariadne's Clue:  A Guide to the Symbols of Humankind.  (FIUGL, Princeton University Pr., 1999), pp. 81-2.

[Quote continues above quote, STEVEAAC81b.]

CULTURE; GENES; LANGUAGE; RELIGION; SYMBOLS - ORIGINS

20070323

In human beings culture does what instinct does for less advanced creatures:  culture is the memory store which exists outside the human brain.  It represents an accumulated treasury / of tested experience; and it is a gift which each generation has to acquire, earn and deserve.

Ariadne's Clue:  A Guide to the Symbols of Humankind.  (FIUGL, Princeton University Pr., 1999), p. 83.

CULTURE; EXPERIENCE; SYMBOLS - ORIGINS; GENERATIONS; HUMANS; INSTINCT; MEMORY

20070826

There is a sense in which we are never more truly ourselves than when we are travelling, and this would explain why we spend so much time, ingenuity and money in devising, developing, and using ever more efficient means of transport.

Ariadne's Clue:  A Guide to the Symbols of Humankind.  (FIUGL, Princeton University Pr., 1999), p. 155.

HUMANS - DEFINITIONS; INNOVATIONS; TRANSPORTATION - INNOVATIONS; TRAVELLING

20071018

Where did we come from?  How did the cosmos begin?  ... When all these mythic and scientific explanations are compared, a profoundly interesting fact emerges; they often overlap in such a way as to suggest that the primordial mind and the modern mind have been working along similar lines.

[Compare with Fred Alan Wolf's quotation:  WOLFFATQL06, as well as Steven's STEVEAAC73.]

Ariadne's Clue:  A Guide to the Symbols of Humankind.  (FIUGL, Princeton University Pr., 1999), p. 195.

EXPLANATIONS; MIND; MYTHS; ORIGINS; SCIENCE; UNIVERSE - ORIGINS

20071031

Heroes are the products of archetypal propensities and historical events.

Ariadne's Clue:  A Guide to the Symbols of Humankind.  (FIUGL, Princeton University Pr., 1999), p. 208.

ARCHETYPES; EVENTS; HEROES; HISTORY

20071101

While all heroes embody within themselves both divine and human elements, not all of them are dragon-slayers.  An alternative kind of hero emerges whose struggle is fought entirely on the spiritual plane.  He is the DIVINE MAN, the prophet, the saviour, the sacred king,..../But dragon-slayers are much more common.

Ariadne's Clue:  A Guide to the Symbols of Humankind.  (FIUGL, Princeton University Pr., 1999), pp. 210-11.

DIVINE MAN; DRAGON-SLAYERS; HEROES - TYPES; KINGS, SACRED; PROPHETS; SAVIORS; SPIRITUAL HEROES

20071101

If psychological experience and conscious choice were unimportant, and if all behaviour were determined by the imperative to get one's genes into the next generation, men would have no time to engage in cultural activities since they would all be too busy seducing sexual partners for one-night stands and queuing up outside sperm banks.

Ariadne's Clue:  A Guide to the Symbols of Humankind.  (FIUGL, Princeton University Pr., 1999), P. 264.

BEHAVIOR; CHOICES; CULTURE; DETERMINISM; GENES; PSYCHOLOGY; SEDUCTION; SEX; SPERM BANKS

20070321

Stevens, Cat.

You know you're not alone;
It's only 'cause you're not at home
That you feel so out of place.

"Home",

On the album, Numbers (1975).

HOME; OUT OF PLACE

19780000

Stevenson, Robert Louis.

I am told there are people who do not care for maps, and find it hard to believe.

"How this Book Came to Be",

Treasure Island.  (LQ240, Easton Pr, 1977). P. xiv.

MAPS

20040426

Stevenson, R.L., continued:

That is not lost which is not regretted.

An Inland Voyage.  (HQ350, Folio Society, ). P. 11.

LOST; MEMORIES; PAST, THE; REGRETS

20051013

We never know where we are to end, if once we begin following words or doctors.

An Inland Voyage.  (HQ350, Folio Society, ). P. 83.

DOCTORS; ENDINGS; FOLLOWING; WORDS

20051022

No one should have any correspondence on a journey; it is bad enough to have to write, but the receipt of letters is the death of all holiday feeling.

An Inland Voyage.  (HQ350, Folio Society, ). P. 113.

CORRESPONDENCE; FEELING; MAIL; VACATIONS

20051026

The true ignorance is when a man does not know that he has received a good gift, or begins to imagine that he has got it for himself.  The self-made man is the funniest wind-bag after all!

An Inland Voyage.  (HQ350, Folio Society, ). P. 126.

GIFTS; IGNORANCE; MAN, SELF-MADE; WINDBAGS

20051106

Stevenson, R.L., continued:

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go.

Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes (HQ263, Folio Soc., 1967) p. 50.

DESTINATIONS; TRAVEL

20040505

And when the present is so exacting, who can annoy himself about the future?

Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes (HQ263, Folio Soc., 1967) p. 51.

ANNOYANCES; FUTURE, THE; TODAY, THE PRESENT

20040511

For there is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.

Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes (HQ263, Folio Soc., 1967) p. 84.

FELLOWSHIP; QUIET; SOLITUDE

20040511

It is not a basketful of law-papers, nor the hoofs and pistol-butts of a regiment of horse, that can change one tittle of a ploughman's thoughts.  Outdoors rustic people have not many ideas, but such as they have are hardy plants, and thrive flourishingly in persecution.

Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes (HQ263, Folio Soc., 1967) p. 119.

ARMIES; CHANGE; COUNTRY FOLK; IDEAS; LAWS; PERSECUTION

20040521

Life itself, I submitted, was a far too risky business as a whole to make each additional particular of danger worth regard.

Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes (HQ263, Folio Soc., 1967) p. 124.

DANGER; LIFE

20040521

Stewart, Mary.

The gods do not visit you to remind you what you know already.

The Crystal Cave. (HJ176, ), p. 365.

ANSWERS; GODS; PRAYERS

19800000

Stewart, William.

Creativity develops within a psychologically save environment in which there is acceptance, a non-judgmental attitude and freedom to think and feel, where we are not undly swayed by criticism or praise.

Imagery and Symbolism in Counselling. (UNF; London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 1996), p. 89.

CREATIVE ORGANIZATIONS; CREATIVITY - DEVELOPMENT; FREEDOMS

20050417

Creative people are exceptional only in that they have learned to pay attention to, rather than ignore, their insights, visions, and altered states of consciousness.  At the same time, they subject their visions, insights, and intuitions to the most rigorous testing and evaluation.  The key to true creativity lies in a balance between the two hemispheres, rather than dominance by one over the other.

Imagery and Symbolism in Counselling. (UNF; London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 1996), p. 94.

CONSCIOUSNESS; CREATIVITY; EVALUATIONS; INSIGHTS; INTUITION; LEFT BRAIN (HEMISPHERE); RIGHT BRAIN (HEMISPHERE); VISION

20050417

Stockdale, James B.

A liberally educated person meets new ideas with curiosity and fascination.  An illiberally educated person meets new ideas with fear.

August, 1980;

as reported in:  Newsweek (19800901), p. 83.

CURIOSITY; EDUCATION; FASCINATION; FEARS; IDEAS

19800830

Stoddard, James.

Evil is no less so for appearing civilized.

The High House (HP264, 1998), p. 297.

EVIL; CIVILIZED MANNERS; APPEARANCE; VALUES

19990612

And as a boy I observed many things unfathomable to a child; could that not also occur as an adult? (spoken by Mr. Hope.)

The High House (HP264, 1998), p. 44.

UNDERSTANDING; FAITH; ADULTS; MYSTERIOUS THINGS

19990608

Now, as I gobble them, I catch their passing thoughts, the screams of scientific men:  'how odd,' 'most interesting,' 'why, this is impossible'; logical minds too analytical to fear the Supernatural, since the Natural has become their deity.

"Jormungand" the dragon, in The False House (PP355, 2000), p. 100.

SCIENCE; NATURE; SUPERNATURAL; PRIMAL FEAR; GODS

20001112

Sulzberge, C. L..

Winston Churchill once complained that democracy is the worst system of government--except for all the others.

The American Heritage Picture History of World War II (SJM, ?), p. 97.

CHURCHILL, WINSTON; DEMOCRACY; GOVERNMENTS

19841007

Sutherland, Duncan B., Jr.

The obstacle that most often stands in the way of progress is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.

"Rethinking the Office",

in:  PC/Computing (February, 1989), p. 198.

IGNORANCE; ILLUSIONS; KNOWLEDGE; PROGRESS

19890406

...automating the office was an attempt to solve the wrong problem. The analogy was inappropriate. Offices are not like factories and farms.... While consultants prattle about the "flow" of office work and the "productivity" of white-collar workers, an office is not an information factory or, in fact, a factory of any sort. The strategies that worked so well in the fields and on the shop floor become largely irrelevant when transferred to the office.

"Rethinking the Office",

in:  PC/Computing (February, 1989), p. 200.

AUTOMATION; FACTORIES; FARMS; OFFICES; PRODUCTIVITY; WORK FLOW

19890407

As an intellectual rather than a technocratic enterprise, the purpose of the office is not to produce "information" but to acquire new knowledge that can help the organization accomplish it s physical goals. The office is an expansion of the mind, not the body. Like the mind, it is, in effect, a knowledge machine: it does not produce anything itself, but controls and supports actions that take place elsewhere.

"Rethinking the Office",

in:  PC/Computing (February, 1989), p. 202.

BODIES; CONTROL; INFORMATION; KNOWLEDGE; MINDS; OFFICES; PRODUCTION

19890407

Sutherland, George.

The public policy of one generation may not, under changed conditions, be the public policy of another.

Funk v United States, 290 US 371

Quoted in:  Gerhart, Eugene C.  Quote It! (FIULref, Boardman,1969), p. 528.

CHANGE; GENERATIONS; PUBLIC POLICIES

19881028

Swahili proverbs.

He who has tasted honey will return to the honey-pot.

In:  Huxley, Elspeth.  The Mottled Lizard (FIUL, , 1962), p. 335.

HONEY; LEAVING; RETURNING

19841007

Sykes, Egerton.

Thus the function of myths may be said to give the members of a society the basis for its moral and religious conduct, to elaborate and systemize its beliefs, and provide a source of divine or supernatural energy.  When we approach a myth.... We are being given access to the world view of a people, of its understanding of itself, its society and its god or gods.

Who's Who in Non-Classical Mythology (FIUGL, Oxford University Pr, 1993), p. ix.

BELIEFS; COSMOLOGY; MORALITY; MYTHS; RELIGIONS; SOCIETIES

20050708

We may become so fascinated by the expression of the myth that we fail to see the truth that it expresses.

Who's Who in Non-Classical Mythology (FIUGL, Oxford University Pr, 1993), p. ix.

FASCINATIONS; MYTHS; TRUTH

20050708

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