The will to mastery becomes all the more urgent the more technology threatens to slip from human control
Think of a flabby person covered with layers of fat. That is what your mind can become - flabby, covered with layers of fat till it becomes too dull and lazy to think, to observe, to explore, to discover. . . not wanting to be disturbed or questioned into wakefulness.
Sanity, as the project of keeping ourselves recognizably human, therefore has to limit the range of human experience. To keep faith with recognition we have to stay recognizable. Sanity, in other words, becomes a pressing preoccupation as soon as we recognize the importance of recognition. When we define ourselves by what we can recognize, by what we can comprehend- rather than, say, by what we can describe- we are continually under threat from what we are unwilling andor unable to see. We are tyrannized by our blind spots, and by whatever it is about ourselves that we find unacceptable.
Is it not first through the voice that one becomes animal?
A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.
Live one day without any unhealthy thoughts. It may be very difficult, but try another day until it becomes habitual, and life will move in the direction of becoming healthy, vital and alive.
He who becomes a Muslim does so in his own interest.
When 'I' replaced with 'We', even the illness becomes wellness.
This quality becomes important at a time when almost everyone is a poet. And as I said, we live in an age where almost everybody is a poet, but scarcely anyone can write a poem.
A culture disconnected from wild nature becomes insane.
The search for extra-terrestrial life is a failure until that moment when it suddenly becomes a success.
The more elaborate our means of our common sense is, the less the common sense it becomes.
Optimal experience is that rare occasion when we feel a sense of exhilaration, a deep sense of enjoyment that is long cherished and that becomes a landmark in memory for what life should be like.
Under the storms, sun becomes a god!
There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for their knowledge, it becomes an object of ambition to be admitted on their list.
The more kindness shown to an envious man, the worse he becomes.
When it becomes a deep rooted revelation of what Jesus Christ did for you at Calvary, you will never walk away!
The music becomes more pure and soulful when it's true, and it has to be true these days with the way the internet works, and the way the game works, everyone wants authentic raps.
Every innovation makes its appearance as a 'luxury' of the few well-to-do. After industry has become aware of it, the luxury then becomes a 'necessity' for all.