Utopic Quotes

All my moral and intellectual being is penetrated by an invincible conviction that whatever falls under the dominion of our senses must be in nature and, however exceptional, cannot differ in its essence from all the other effects of the visible and tangible world of which we are a self-conscious part. The world of the living contains enough marvels and mysteries as it is—marvels and mysteries acting upon our emotions and intelligence in ways so inexplicable that it would almost justify the conception of life as an enchanted state. No, I am too firm in my consciousness of the marvelous to be ever fascinated by the mere supernatural which (take it any way you like) is but a manufactured article, the fabrication of minds insensitive to the intimate delicacies of our relation to the dead and to the living, in their countless multitudes; a desecration of our tenderest memories; an outrage on our dignity.

We seem to so desire certainty. An immortality. A utopic end to conflict, suffering, and misunderstanding. And yet, in the final elimination of all darkness exists light with no contrast. And where there is no contrast of light, there is no perception of light at all.

I took an ethics seminar with her as part of my postdoctorate work. There was a story we read about this beautiful, utopic land where everything was wonderful and enlightened and pleasant and good and just, except for one child who had to live in confusion and misery. One child, in exchange for paradise to everyone else.” “I know that one. Omelas.

Budući da je istina da se punoća duše ponekad može utopiti u potpunoj bljutavosti jezika, jer niko od nas nikada ne može zaista izraziti tačne mere svojih potreba, misli ili patnji; a ljudski govor je poput razbijenog lončeta, po kom udaramo grube ritmove da bi medvedi uz njih igrali, dok želimo da stvorimo muziku koja će raznežiti zvezde.

No u nekom trenutku morate uvidjeti da ne možete nikoga kontrolirati, morate se odmaknuti i biti spremni uhvatiti tu osobu kad padne. To je sve što možete učiniti. Osjećate se kao da ste se bacili u more. Odnosno, možda ne baš tako. Prije možda kao da ste u more bacili osobu koju volite i molite se da ostane plutati, znajući da bi se mogla utopiti i da ćete vi to morati gledati.

And there’s a good reason for this: we are all so resistant to ditch this seemingly simple solution because diet culture has reinforced that restriction is a form of self-control, starvation is a spiritual practice, and if we can reach utopic obedience in these ways we will have instant access to heaven, where self-esteem, validation, and worthiness are liberally doled out with fistfuls of glitter and endless praise.

Despre Transilvania, a te simți acasă și democrație: „În secolul IX ar fi părut o utopie să chemi un primar din Germania într-o comună din Alsacia, și invers. Asemenea cazuri, repet, ar fi părut o utopie. Soluția a venit din viitor. [...] Problema Transilvaniei nu este a istoricilor. Manualele istoricilor unguri și români nu vor putea fi puse niciodată de acord. Soluția pentru Transilvania nu poate veni din trecut, dar din viitor care astăzi ne pare utopic. Un ungur și un român pot să se simtă „la ei acasă”, dacă fiecare îi recunoaște dreptul celuilalt de a se simți la el acasă în aceeași măsură în care el se simte la el acasă. Niciunul nu trebuie să fie „mai la el acasă” decât celălalt. [...] Acest lucru nu e posibil decât într-o societate în care diferența e acceptată din capul locului și privită ca firească. Singura societate care creează starea de spirit a lui „a fi la tine acasă” este cea democratică, pentru că democrația este singura formă de guvernare care acceptă că ceea ce este diferit este totodată egal”.

Psychology at best tells us how things are, not how they are supposed to be! There is no utopic science.

Nebe mělo barvu očí čtrnáct dní starého utopence a slunce nad obzorem viselo jako krvavý plivanec.

Like the photographs, the stories people told were full of such significant details, and perhaps the interviewers were told to keep their eyes on those details. Thus, Annette Hersh Thorp would describe the interiors of the houses in her narratives, and Lou Sage Batchen would inscribe every detail of a remedio (herbal remedy) and its use. In her book The Preservation of the Village: New Mexico's Hispanics and the New Deal, Suzanne Forrest claims that the New Deal was a cultural invasion far more pervasive than anything Hispanic New Mexicans had yet experienced. She believes that the interviewers romanticized the work and culture of the rural villages and "cleaned up" the Mexican heritage. In so doing, they invented a romantic Spanish heritage for the state. This was the beginning of a "Spanish" revival, the creation of a "utopic" arcadia of Hispanic village culture.

Impossible? Utopic? Sure! But for how long? Can any human endeavor be eternally impossible or utopic ? A time factor should be integrated to every affirmation of utopia, or else the people affirming that would only be affirming that they are not the ones who can make it happen.

...să ne deschidem inimile și brațele unii către alții. Chiar dacă sună utopic sau naiv, eu cred din adâncul ființei mele că o Lume în care oamenii se îmbrățișează mai des, mai îndelung, mai strâns, mai sincer, devine o Lume mai Frumoasă, mai Armonioasă, mai Primitoare.

the ages. The Epicureans, he wrote, felt that suicide was justified when life became unbearable. The Stoics approved of it, too. There was that brilliant Seneca quote: “I shall not abandon old age, if old age preserves me intact for myself, and intact as regards the better part of myself; but if old age begins to shatter my mind and to pull its various faculties to pieces … I shall rush out of a house that is crumbling and tottering.” In Irwin’s chronology, it was vapid Christian theologians who pulled common sense away from this reasonable position, with their insistence that suicide was self-murder, and so a kind of murder, and so a sin. Still, there were always brave thinkers who believed otherwise. Thomas More, in his 1516 book Utopia, wrote that in a true utopic world, a man who was suffering from an “incurable but also distressing and agonizing” disease, who had become “a burden to himself, and a trouble to others,” would “free himself from this bitter life.” When he did, it would be more than an act of prudence; it would be “a pious and holy action.

Great writing makes great reading.

The second lie which has formed the basis of many movies is the idea that humans only use 10% of our brainpower. However, not even one single study or scientific finding can prove this. These are only hypotheses from sub-standard sources. Research only proves the opposite – that we use 100% of our brain capacity. Recent studies show that we maximize all our brain even during sleep. Kwik relieves the reader from this laughable utopic thought by confirming that the reader is always in full-potential mode – only if the reader decides to take charge.

Šta se desi sa onim suzama što se utope u očima? Što nikada ne skliznu niz obraz, one koje se vrate u dušu. Da li one uništavaju čovjeka iznutra ili ga pak čine jačim? Pitamo li se ili zaboravimo na činjenicu da baš je nešto ojačalo ili sredilo... To boli, te suze koje nisu završile na licu već su se vratile tamo gdje su pronašle utočište.

Jesmo u govnima, ali ne smijemo se u njima utopiti.

Attaining perpetual peace globally might seem utopic but we must wake up every morning determined to make a difference on the lives of the affected and the infected victims of war and violence.

Perhaps to be human is to struggle one’s whole life to find some solid ground to stand on and then die never coming anywhere close. And perhaps that’s not even a bad thing. To know the true meaning of life and self is to do what with it? End the mystery? End the game? What then? Perhaps one day we will find some unifying theory of everything and perhaps somehow this will make everything better, but what are the odds that we still care about the point of life after we’ve found it? Imagine a movie in which you knew exactly why and what everything was from the start. Imagine a life, if we found a theory of everything or an equation that connected the mysteries of quantum mechanics and Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity, and we understood the very core of how and why the universe worked, what difference would this really make in terms of the meaning of life. Would two different people still not watch the same movie and experience and interpret two different things? We would of course all agree that it’s a movie and on how the movie works, but when it comes to meaning, there will always remain a perceptual layer completely relative to the individuals observing it. Because of this, if we found the overarching ultimate truth of existence tomorrow, half the world would not believe it, and the other half would fight for it. And as a whole, we would be no different. And if somehow the whole world did agree upon one truth, what then? Utopia? What then? The truth we seek when considering the quality and meaning of our lives is not an outward truth, not a truth that resolves the questions of the universe, but a truth that glimpses inward and assembles into a stable self that can be integrated seamlessly into our perception of the whole around us, a truth we can’t ever truly have. Truth is not even the right word here, there is no right word here. That’s the point. I sit here writing, thinking about my being, about the strange relationship I have with this life and this plane of existence. I think about how alive I feel right now while writing. How potent this moment is. How insane and beautiful it is. How important it has been to me in the past. Thinking, writing, talking, and reading about earnest experiences and attempts at living. Personally, the direct confrontation with the challenges, complexities, sufferings, and plights of the human condition have provided me with some of, if not all of the profound, potent, and beautiful moments of my life. And I wonder if I would have ever experienced any of those undeniably worthy moments if life made sense. If it didn’t hurt and overwhelm me… How beautiful would the night sky be if we knew exactly where it went and how the stars got there? Would we ever be inspired to create art and form interpretations out of this life, what would I have written about? What would I have read about? How would I have ever found love or friendship or connection with others? Why would I have ever laughed or cried? What would I be doing right now? Would there be anything to say? Anything to live or die for? I don’t feel that my life would have been any better if I had known any more of what it was all about, in fact I think it would have only worsened the whole thing, we seem to so desire certainty, and immortality, a utopic end of conflict, suffering, and misunderstanding, and yet in the final elimination of all darkness exists light with no contrast. And where there is no contrast of light there is no perception of light, at all. What we think we want is rarely what we do, if we ever got what we did, we would no longer have anything. What we really want is to want. To have something to ceaselessly chase and move towards. To feel the motion and synchronicity with the universe's unending forward movement.

Am ajuns cu vremea la încredinţarea că incultura sau cultura nu sunt în raport cu numărul de cărţi citite şi că acestea nu modifică în esenţă vocaţia înnăscută a cuiva pentru cultură sau incultură. Căci există şi vocaţia inculturii. Cunosc oameni care au citit efectiv biblioteci întregi, au dulapuri cu fişe şi ştiu tot ce se poate şti, dar sunt funciarmente şi fără speranţă nişte inculţi. Asta se vede din felul cum se exprimă şi cum abordează anumite situaţii sau probleme. Alţii care n-au citit toată viaţa decât să zicem o sută de cărţi fundamentale (dar sunt atâtea?) au darul culturii, spiritul lor are apetenţa înţelegerii şi cunoaşterii şi se mişcă cu libertate şi siguranţă în lumea ideilor, esenţelor şi formelor. Fireşte că această apetenţă a spiritului comportă de obicei o irezistibilă şi devorantă sete de lectură: „O sută de mii de cărţi, un milion de cărţi!” cum exclama Papini în acel Uomo finito pe care văd cu melancolie că generaţiile noi ma îl mai pomenesc: să fi fost şi asta una din cărţile a căror tărie se istoveşte după o generaţie? N-am mai recitit-o de aproape douăzeci de ani şi faptul acesta poate că e un indiciu. De ce am recitit de nu ştiu câte ori Don Quijote, Război şi pace, Comedia umană, de pildă, iar pe asta şi atâtea altele nu? Nu e cazul să facem liste, dar recitirile sunt un criteriu de prim-ordin pentru definirea structurii intelectuale a cuiva. Recitirea merge însă destul de greu împreună cu lectura nenumăratelor noutăţi importante care proliferează ca scaunele lui lonescu. În vremea care a început să se îndepărteze, când nu primeam nici cărţi noi, nici reviste, puteam liniştit şi fără jenă să mă îndeletnicesc „a longueur d'année” cu Platon, cu Goethe, cu Shakespeare, dar acum, trebuind mereu să recunosc că nu l-am citit nici pe Updike, nici pe Bellow, nici pe Claude Simon, nici pe cutare sau cutare (cum vedeţi nu sunt în stare măcar să enumăr mai mulţi) încep să am, cum se zice, „complexe”. Mint. Nu le am. Există o formulă barbară: „a fi cu lectura la zi”. La zi! Ce enormă incultură exprimă asemenea vorbă! Sunt de acord că, mai ales în ştiinţă, nu se poate fără informaţie promptă şi – utopic!- completă. [...] Descartes în a doua parte a vieţii, când şi-a clădit opera, nu mai citea aproape nimic. Faulkner (care afecta de altfel cu cochetărie o falsă ignoranţă) mărturisea că propria lui operă nu i-a îngăduit ani de zile să se ţină la curent cu literatura mai nouă. Cine are ceva de spus, cine are, să zic aşa, o „graviditate” spirituală, şi simte crescând în el rodul gândirii şi imaginaţiei proprii, e din ce în ce mai puţin disponibil şi capătă o aparentă incuriozitate pentru alte lucruri. Lectura ca deliciu şi totodată ca mijloc de orientare a spiritului, ca situare pe o axă a existenţei, îşi poate împlini integral funcţia doar cu câteva cărţi inepuizabile. Timeo hominem unium libri: înainte de a avertiza contra mărginiţilor la litera unei singure cărţi, această frază a sfântului Toma de Aquino, declară redutabilă puterea celui care i-a asimilat temeinic spiritul. Dar lectura ca „filatelie” şi ca mijloc de a epata pe ignoranţi e un semn de vacuitate mentală. Vorba lui Montaigne: Surtout, c'est a mon gré bien faire le sot que de faire l'entendu entre ceux

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