Creeds and causal systems have argued with each other for millennia, and even so we and our ancestors have managed to live in a world of differing opinions. Philosophical disputes don't often affect the price of fish or wine. Elizabeth Janeway More Quotes by Elizabeth Janeway More Quotes From Elizabeth Janeway This is the power of the powerful to define, to structure, to say, 'This is the way the world works.' It's enormous power. Among the powers of the weak, I think the first one is the power not to believe the powerful. Elizabeth Janeway powerful believe thinking The maxims for success laid out by the powerful are never much good as guides for those who aren't powerful. Elizabeth Janeway maxims guides powerful We put up with a lot to be saved from chaos. We always have. Elizabeth Janeway chaos saved The greatest barrier to women's advance in the public world of action has been their acquiescence in the idea that they don't belong out there. Elizabeth Janeway acquiescence world ideas it is through the ghost [writer] that the great gift of knowledge which the inarticulate have for the world can be made available. Elizabeth Janeway ghost made world Man's world' and 'woman's place' have confronted each other since Scylla first faced Charybdis. ... if women have only a place, clearly the rest of the world must belong to someone else and, therefore, in default of God, to men. Elizabeth Janeway scylla men world television. It has changed the way that we perceive the world out there, and though we know that - have indeed been bombarded with analyses on the consequences for society, for the family, and for individual psychology - I don't believe that we have yet begun to appreciate the reach of its subliminal effects, of what we might call 'the slow viruses.' They not only get into our ways of seeing, they pervade the ways in which we weave our perceptions together into patterns that support and explain our thinking and our doing and both direct and hinder various kinds of relationships. Elizabeth Janeway appreciate believe thinking Individual advances turn into social change when enough of them occur. Elizabeth Janeway individual social enough The surprise of animals... in and out, cats and dogs and a milk goat and chickens and guinea hens, all taken for granted, as if man was intended to live on terms of friendly intercourse with the rest of creation instead of huddling in isolation on the fourteenth floor of an apartment house in a city where animals occurred behind bars in the zoo. Elizabeth Janeway taken dog zoos How can you communicate your thoughts or demonstrate your hypotheses by conventional means when all the values and standards that you want to challenge are built into those means? Science and new technology today like to declare that they encourage 'lateral thinking,' new ways of seeing and putting data together - but all systems have an inbuilt resistance to what has not been programmed into them through the premises on which their rules are based. Elizabeth Janeway technology mean thinking a problem that presents itself as a dilemma carries an unfortunate prescription: to argue instead of act. Elizabeth Janeway dilemma problem arguing Love between women is seen as a paradigm of love between equals, and that is perhaps its greatest attraction. Elizabeth Janeway paradigm sexuality love-is If history is really relevant in today's world, the proposition doesn't command much respect. Perhaps the past is a different country, but if so no one much wants to travel there. Elizabeth Janeway country history past I have a problem about being nearly sixty: I keep waking up in the morning and thinking I'm thirty-one. Elizabeth Janeway morning retirement thinking Humor is an antidote to isolation. Elizabeth Janeway antidote isolation laughter Growing up human is uniquely a matter of social relations rather than biology. What we learn from connections within the family takes the place of instincts that program the behavior of animals; which raises the question, how good are these connections? Elizabeth Janeway connections growing-up animal We don't get offered crises, they arrive. Elizabeth Janeway crisis Great writers leave us not just their works, but a way of looking at things. Elizabeth Janeway great-writers way As long as mixed grills and combination salads are popular, anthologies will undoubtedly continue in favor. Elizabeth Janeway favors writing long I admire people who are suited to the contemplative life. They can sit inside themselves like honey in a jar and just be. Elizabeth Janeway contemplative-life honey people
