46 Quotes About Zeitgeist

You never change things by fighting the existing reality.To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

И пробиваясь сквозь хрустальмногообразно однозвучный,как сон земли благополучной,парит на крылышках мораль

Daignez plutôt honorer tout d'un tempsDe vos bontés vos deux jeunes amants,Et gardez-vous de risquer votre vie.

Novelists,’ said Ivo, ‘are to the nineties what cooks were to the eighties, hairdressers to the seventies and pop-stars to the sixties… Merely, you know, an expression of the Zeitgeist, Nobody actually reads novels any more, but it’s a fashionable thing to be a novelist – as long as you don’t entertain people of course. I sometimes think,’ said Ivo, his eyes like industrial diamonds, ‘that my sole virtue is, I’m the only person in London who has no intention of writing any kind of novel, ever.

Even the juncture in history and the zeitgeist we live in is something we choose, setting the scene for the spiritual fodder we need to grow and achieve deeper elevation of our souls.

It seemed to him a mistake that he strove to offer his thoughts to the world. The world could be moved by thoughts, but was it not like with the pendulum that one pushes with one’s hand out past its two rest points? The clock would certainly not be affected by what happened beyond those points, but rather only by what happened between them.

Якщо в ідеології є насолода, то є і ностальгія за самовдоволенністю.

Случайно на ноже карманномнайди пылинку дальних стран -и мир опять предстанет странным,закутанным в цветной туман!

People always want something more than immediate joy or that deeper sense called happiness. This is one of the secrets by which we shape the fulfillment of our designs. The something more assumes amplified power with people who cannot give it a name or who (most often the case) do not even suspect its existence. Most people only react unconsciously to such hidden forces. Thus, we have only to call a calculated something more into existence, define it and give it shape, then people will follow.