A Quote by Norman O. Brown

History is the enactment of ritual on a permanent and universal stage; and its perpetual commemoration.

Norman O. Brown

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Commemoration History Permanent Perpetual Ritual Stage Universal

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Norman O. Brown
American - Philosopher
September 25, 1913 - October 2, 2002

A ritual is the enactment of a myth. And, by participating in the ritual, you are participating in the myth. And since myth is a projection of the depth wisdom of the psyche, by participating in a ritual, participating in the myth, you are being, as it were, put in accord with that wisdom, which is the wisdom that is inherent within you anyhow. Your consciousness is being re-minded of the wisdom of your own life.

Joseph Campbell

On the stage on which we are observing it, — Universal History — Spirit displays itself in its most concrete reality.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Any ritual is an opportunity for transformation. To do a ritual, you must be willing to be transformed in some way. The inner willingness is what makes the ritual come alive and have power. If you aren't willing to be changed by the ritual, don't do it.

Starhawk

The history of thought, and therefore all history, is the re-enactment of past thought in the historian's own mind.

Robin G. Collingwood

I have always felt that the great lottery of life is unfair. The fact is that I was thrown up on the stage of life called Australia. You don't choose where you are thrown on to this stage. So universal health, universal education, of course plenty of food and clean water.

Tim Costello

The blessing which we associate with a life of refinement and cultivation can be made universal and must be made universal if they are to be permanent.

Jane Addams

We must get back into relation, vivid and nourishing relation to the cosmos and the universe. The way is through daily ritual, andis an affair of the individual and the household, a ritual of dawn and noon and sunset, the ritual of the kindling fire and pouring water, the ritual of the first breath, and the last.

D. H. Lawrence

Universal suffrage should rest upon universal education. To this end, liberal and permanent provision should be made for the support of free schools by the State governments, and, if need be, supplemented by legitimate aid from national authority.

Rutherford B. Hayes

My grandmother was an actress too. In the thirties and forties she was under contract with Universal Studios. Crazy credits, lots of them. My dad was also under contract with Universal Studios. And my first film was shot on the same stage they both worked on at Universal.

Chris Pine

Living should be perpetual and universal benediction.

Wei Wu Wei

We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.