John Macmurray quotes

“If you love a person, you love him in his stark reality, and refuse to shut your eyes to his defects and errors.”
-- John Macmurray

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“Fear not; the things that you are afraid of are quite likely to happen to you, but they are nothing to be afraid of.”
-- John Macmurray

Source : John Macmurray (1961). “The Form of the Personal: Persons in relation”

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“What other significance can our existence have than to be ourselves fully and completely?”
-- John Macmurray

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“Faith is a practical attitude of the will.”
-- John Macmurray

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“ALL MEANINGFUL KNOWLEDGE IS FOR THE SAKE OF ACTION, AND ALL MEANINGFUL ACTION FOR THE SAKE OF FRIENDSHIP.”
-- John Macmurray

Source : John Macmurray (1961). “The Form of the Personal”

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“Look not in my eyes, for fear They mirror true the sight I see, And there you find your face too clear And love it and be lost like me.”

Source : A. E. Housman (2012). “A Shropshire Lad”, p.11, Courier Corporation

“If this world affords true happiness, it is to be found in a home where love and confidence increase with the years, where the necessities of life come without severe strain, where luxuries enter only after their cost has been carefully considered.”

“Life is what happens when you're doing other things, right?”

Source : Interview with Christopher Kompanek, www.avclub.com. March 23, 2012.

“We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think in terms of hundreds of thousands and millions and billions... Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.”

“As I took a step toward him your eyes met mine and I saw the silent pleading for forgiveness or acceptance. I wasn't sure which. All I knew was you were Sawyer's now. My best friend was gone. I envied him and hated him for the first time that day. He'd finaly won the one prize I thought was mine.”

“I held his gaze. I could see the storm in his eyes. I knew he was confused. I could see the fear. Then there was the love. I saw it. The fierceness in his eyes. I believed it. I could see it clearly. But it was too late now. The love wasn't enough. Everyone always said that love was enough. It wasn't. Not when your soul was shattered.”

“It is possible to be a meta-physician without believing in a transcendent reality; for we shall see that many metaphysical utterances are due to the commission of logical errors, rather than to a conscious desire on the part of their authors to go beyond the limits of experience.”

“The brands with which we surround ourselves prop us up, make us feel sexy and beautiful, when in reality we're pretty dumpy creatures.”

Source : "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". Interview with Susan Lerner, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.

“We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are our own constructs and start equating them with reality.”

“The reality of a serious writer is a reality of many voices, some of them belonging to the writer, some of them belonging to the world of readers at large.”