„Conform, go crazy, or become an artist.“
— Nancy Springer American author of fantasy, young adult literature, mystery, and science fiction 1948
„One must conform to the baseness of an age or become neurotic.“
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„The gods of one age become the devils of the age to follow. The priests look forward to the age to come and see only the end of the world.“
— Lon Milo DuQuette American occult writer 1948
Fonte: Angels, Demons, & Gods of the New Millennium (1997), Chapter 4
„The heterodoxy of one age will become the orthodoxy of the next“
— Benjamin Fish Austin Nineteenth-century Canadian educator/Methodist Minister/Spiritualist 1850 - 1933
Defence at his Heresy Trial
„My thoughts have been shaped by the conviction that feminism must become a mass based, transformative impact on society.“
— Bell Hooks, livro Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center
p. xiii https://books.google.com/books?id=L1WvBAAAQBAJ&pg=PR18.
Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center (1984), Preface
„A stereotype becomes a stereotype when a significant percentage of the population appears to conform to it.“
— Kelley Armstrong, livro Dime Store Magic
Fonte: Dime Store Magic
„The more you make people alike, the more competition you have. Competition is based on the principle of conformity. (p. 135)“
— Marshall McLuhan Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor of English literature, a literary critic, and a communicatio… 1911 - 1980
1990s and beyond, The Book of Probes : Marshall McLuhan (2011)
„A single question remained, the age-old cry of anguish: “How could one so beautiful be so base?”“
— Jack Vance, Lyonesse Trilogy
Fonte: Lyonesse Trilogy (1983-1989), The Green Pearl (1985), Chapter 6, section 1 (p. 434)
„Sometimes one must be base in order not to be tricked by a clever man.“
— François de La Rochefoucauld, livro Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
Il suffit quelquefois d'être grossier pour n'être pas trompé par un habile homme.
Maxim 129.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
„The lover is moved by the beloved object as the senses are by sensual objects; and they unite and become one and the same thing. The work is the first thing born of this union; if the thing loved is base the lover becomes base.“
— Leonardo Da Vinci Italian Renaissance polymath 1452 - 1519
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.
„If you are going to penalize disloyalty, you must first determine what loyalty is; if you are going to silence nonconformity, you must determine what conformity is—and to what it conforms.“
— Henry Steele Commager American historian 1902 - 1998
Fonte: Freedom, Loyalty, Dissent (1954), p. 15
„We become like that which we love. If we love what is base, we become base; but if we love what is noble, we become noble.“
— Fulton J. Sheen Catholic bishop and television presenter 1895 - 1979
Fonte: Life Is Worth Living
„Pietism and methodism reemphasized personal guilt, personal experience, and individual perfection. They were not intended to deviate from ecclesiastical conformity, but unavoidably they did deviate; subjective piety became the bridge of the victorious reappearance of autonomous reason. Pietism was the bridge to Enlightenment. But even Enlightenment did not consider itself individualistic. One believed not in a conformity which is based on biblical revelation but in one which should be based on the power of reason in every individual. The principles of practical and theoretical reason were supposed to be universal among men and able to create, with the help of research and education, a new conformity.“
— Paul Tillich, livro The Courage to Be
Fonte: The Courage to Be (1952), p. 114
„In all other algebras both relations must be combined, and the algebra must conform to the character of the relations.“
— Benjamin Peirce, Linear Associative Algebra
§ 3.
Linear Associative Algebra (1882)
Contexto: All relations are either qualitative or quantitative. Qualitative relations can be considered by themselves without regard to quantity. The algebra of such enquiries may be called logical algebra, of which a fine example is given by Boole.
Quantitative relations may also be considered by themselves without regard to quality. They belong to arithmetic, and the corresponding algebra is the common or arithmetical algebra.
In all other algebras both relations must be combined, and the algebra must conform to the character of the relations.
„How far should one accept the rules of the society in which one lives? To put it another way: at what point does conformity become corruption? Only by answering such questions does the conscience truly define itself.“
— Kenneth Tynan English theatre critic and writer 1927 - 1980
Review of Le Misanthrope, by Molière, at the Piccadilly (1962), p. 117
Tynan Right and Left (1967)
„Tolerance among scientists cannot be based on indifference, it must be based on respect.“
— Jacob Bronowski Polish-born British mathematician 1908 - 1974
Part 3: "The Sense of Human Dignity", §6 (p. 63–64)
Science and Human Values (1956, 1965)
Contexto: Tolerance among scientists cannot be based on indifference, it must be based on respect. Respect as a personal value implies, in any society, the public acknowledgements of justice and of due honor. These are values which to the layman seem most remote from any abstract study. Justice, honor, the respect of man for man: What, he asks, have these human values to do with science? [... ]
Those who think that science is ethically neutral confuse the findings of science, which are, with the activity of science, which is not.
„I know very well that one must fight, for one is often in contradiction to the spirit of the age.“
— Auguste Rodin French sculptor 1840 - 1917
As quoted in "Rodin freed human spirit" in The Des Moines Register (7 January 2007) http://www.dmregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070107/ENT01/701070305
21st century
„Perhaps, the good and the beautiful are the same, and must be investigated by one and the same process; and in like manner the base and the evil.“
— Plotinus Neoplatonist philosopher 203 - 270
An Essay on the Beautiful
Contexto: Perhaps, the good and the beautiful are the same, and must be investigated by one and the same process; and in like manner the base and the evil. And in the first rank we must place the beautiful, and consider it as the same with the good; from which immediately emanates intellect as beautiful. Next to this, we must consider the soul receiving its beauty from intellect, and every inferior beauty deriving its origin from the forming power of the soul, whether conversant in fair actions and offices, or sciences and arts. Lastly, bodies themselves participate of beauty from the soul, which, as something divine, and a portion of the beautiful itself, renders whatever it supervenes and subdues, beautiful as far as its natural capacity will admit.
Let us, therefore, re-ascend to the good itself, which every soul desires; and in which it can alone find perfect repose. For if anyone shall become acquainted with this source of beauty he will then know what I say, and after what manner he is beautiful. Indeed, whatever is desirable is a kind of good, since to this desire tends. But they alone pursue true good, who rise to intelligible beauty, and so far only tend to good itself; as far as they lay aside the deformed vestments of matter, with which they become connected in their descent. Just as those who penetrate into the holy retreats of sacred mysteries, are first purified and then divest themselves of their garments, until someone by such a process, having dismissed everything foreign from the God, by himself alone, beholds the solitary principle of the universe, sincere, simple and pure, from which all things depend, and to whose transcendent perfections the eyes of all intelligent natures are directed, as the proper cause of being, life and intelligence. With what ardent love, with what strong desire will he who enjoys this transporting vision be inflamed while vehemently affecting to become one with this supreme beauty! For this it is ordained, that he who does not yet perceive him, yet desires him as good, but he who enjoys the vision is enraptured with his beauty, and is equally filled with admiration and delight. Hence, such a one is agitated with a salutary astonishment; is affected with the highest and truest love; derides vehement affections and inferior loves, and despises the beauty which he once approved. Such, too, is the condition of those who, on perceiving the forms of gods or daemons, no longer esteem the fairest of corporeal forms. What, then, must be the condition of that being, who beholds the beautiful itself?
„philosophy must obey its own rules and be based upon its own principles; truth, however, can only be one.“
— Pope John Paul II 264th Pope of the Catholic Church, saint 1920 - 2005
Encyclical Fides et Ratio, 14 September 1998
Fonte: www.vatican.va http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/encyclicals/documents/hf_jp-ii_enc_14091998_fides-et-ratio_en.html
„If there is to be any philosophy at all, this contradiction must be resolved – and the solution of this problem, or answer to the question: how can we think both of Presentations as conforming to objects, and objects as conforming to presentations? is, not the first, but the highest task of transcendental philosophy.“
— Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling German philosopher (idealism) 1775 - 1854
System of Transcendental Philosophy (1800)
