Arlene Raven quotes

Arlene Raven quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“The way in which we think of ourselves has everything to do with how our world sees us and how we can see ourselves successfully acknowledged by that world.”
-- Arlene Raven

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“Americans think the only funny Brits are John Cleese, Benny Hill and whoever makes our toothpaste. They're not laughing with us, they are laughing at us.”
“Think it over, think it under.”
“The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.”
“I think I feel rather differently about sympathy to what seems the normal view. I like just to feel it is there, but not always expressed.”
“The new century has brought on its own terrible dangers, which although not reaching the apocalyptic potential of the Cold War, still have the capacity to shake our world.”
“It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see, not perhaps the way out, but the way in.”
“One can't have it both ways and both ways is the only way I want it.”

Source : "The Really Short Poems of A. R. Ammons". Book by A. R. Ammons, 1990.
“I'm not an athiest. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.”
“It is time, therefore, to abandon the superstition that natural science cannot be regarded as logically respectable until philosophers have solved the problem of induction. The problem of induction is, roughly speaking, the problem of finding a way to prove that certain empirical generalizations which are derived from past experience will hold good also in the future.”
“How can we say nobody's perfect if there is no perfect to compare to? Perfection implies that there really is a right and wrong way to be. And what type of perfection is the best type? Moral perfection? Aesthetic? Physiological? Mental?”

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