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Religious Cult: The church down the street from yours.
When small towns find they cannot harm the strangest of their members, when eccentrics show resilience, they are eventually embraced and even cherished.
Self righteousness belongs to narrow-minded.
Don't look for the precise and local. Simply; do not be narrow minded.
We tend to think of the problems of globalization and cultural identity as peculiar to our times. In fact they are rooted in ancient problems of civic belonging.
We can't encourage narrow mindedness, for no nation can be great whose people are narrow in thought.
To a life that seizes
Upon content,
Locality seems
But accident.
The narrow-minded who undertake any work will never be satisfied. They cannot understand the actions of those who are large hearted and broad-minded.
Language, identity, place, home: these are all of a piece - just different elements of belonging and not-belonging.
We are given these niches, small worlds of our own populated by only a handful, where we feel understood. Our bubble worlds bump into innumerable others daily, but there is so little cause to allow their integrity to be breached.
Our essential differences from the norm are both huge and deeply offensive to those among us who wish to be quietly integrated into society without particular reference to our nature.
To be a genuine individualist requires a great deal of strength and courage. It is never easy to chart new territory, to cross new frontiers, or to introduce subtle shadings to an established color.
A particularly Jersey malaise
the inextinguishable longing for elsewheres.
To the people here, we are outsiders. Foreigners.
Mainstream is the melting pot of everybody sometimes for much of its faults and triumphs it's the world out there that reveals so much more about you than the man-made boundaries that are created.
Alienation produces eccentrics or revolutionary.
Spirituality is intensely personal; religion is institutional.
Whether splendidly isolated or dangerously isolated, I will not now debate; but for my part, I think splendidly isolated, because the isolation of England comes from her superiority.
What I was interested in is the lens organizing my sovereign space. I avoid the term outsider and also exile for the same reason. Outsider implies a kind of nobility.
At some point in our lives there's something about every one of us that makes us feel like an outsider, I believe.
This society eliminates geographical distance only to produce a new internal separation.
Just as all politics is local, all good history is personal.
I am an isolationist.
Where there are those who honour their locality and celebrate a sense of belonging, others can be cast out as not belonging. And here are the seeds of racism and persecution. When the romantic reifies the land, ugly things might be done in the name of that land.
The distinction between private and public undermines the unity of spiritual strength, draining the public of the transcendent energies while trivializing them because the merely private life provides no proper stage for their action.
Everywhere the people are of mixed and imported stock. One group has followed another: one longed for what another scorned; one was driven out from where he had expelled others. So fate has decreed that nothing maintains the same condition forever.
In the larger world, tribalism is an enormous problem, as it ever has been: both strength and idiocy borne from belonging.
Custom is sanctified absurdity.
Going beyond one's backyard grants one perspective.
It is an ancient belief, going back to classical antiquity, that specialization of any kind is illiberal in a freeman. A man willing to bury himself in the details of some small endeavor has been considered lost to these larger considerations which must occupy the mind of the ruler.
Shunned by association.
Dar'st thou amid the varied multitude To live alone, an isolated thing?
In a city, with all of its enclaves and boundaries, both real and imagined, it is impossible not to feel the presence of those who are not like you and impossible not to feel like an outsider.
We shall never be understood or respected by the English until we carry our individuality to extremes, and by asserting our independence, become of sufficient consequence in their eyes to merit a closer study than they have hitherto accorded us.
One who is happy being a cosmopolitan shelters a shattered origin in the night of his wandering.
Politics, or controversy, or party spirit, or worldliness, have eaten
out the heart of lively piety in too many of us. The subject of
personal godliness has fallen sadly into the background.
I'm an outsider. I will always be an outsider.
From now on - specialize; never again make any concession to the ninety-nine percent of you which is like everyon else at the expense of the one percent which is unique.
Thou unassuming common-place of Nature, with that homely face.
In politics and in society, we can use our reason to rise above our parochial natures. Too bad that our elected officials don't choose to do so more often.
The desolate narrowness, the definitive thinness of experience is both the vainglory and the dead giveaway of a provincial man.
To be the outsider is actually a great thing in England.
small communities
The division in our lives was curious. Downstairs there was pure convention; upstairs pure intellect. But there was no connection between them.
I'm an outsider.
A country of inveterate, backwoods, thick-headed, egotistic philistines
The organization of science into disciplines sets up a series of ghettos with remarkable distances of artificial social space between them.
Separate we come, and separate we go, And this be it known, is all that we know.
Extracurricular Parallel to none I am perpendicular
One thing about being narrow-minded: you'll never be lonely.
What is sacred among one people may be ridiculous in another; and what is despised or rejected by one cultural group, may in a different environment become the cornerstone for a great edifice of strange grandeur and beauty.
Nationalism is fraught with dangers, of course, but so is the blind refusal to recognize that attachment to one's own culture, traditions, and history is a creative, normal, and healthy part of human experience.
In a rural society communities are "given" for the individual. Community is a fact, whether family or religion, social class or caste.
I really don't feel exclusiveMy ambition instead, perhaps because of my peasant-worker background, is to look at the world with others, not as an aristocratic intellectual.
Something becomes personal when it deviates from the norm.
I suppose when you are an outsider, you will always be an outsider.
When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature then we the pedant.
The universal is the local without walls
The intensity of a national culture should be represented by ... the general education level and ... the exceptional merit of a small elite of pioneers.
The Tragedy of the human condition is that the very things that make us interesting and culturally important and progressively brilliant are our differences; and these are also the principle reasons for our prejudices
We often ask our citizens to split their public and private selves, telling them in effect that it is fine to be religious in private, but there is something askew when those private beliefs become the basis for public action.
Homeland is not a blot on a map but the living essence of man
It is true that snobisme may be urged against them; but it is at least snobisme in its most dynamic form, with a great deal of sound sense and energy behind it; and they are stricter with themselves than with any outsider.
Nationalism is both a vital medicine and a dangerous drug
The natures of solitary people are apt to have more unmapped country in them than worldly folk imagine. They see and think and do things peculiar to themselves, and one may turn up buried treasure in them at any moment. ("Absolute Evil")
I come from a fragmented society. A country proud to serve as a bridge between Europe and Asia yet unable to bridge its own differences.
The respectable, like the despised, are always at the mercy of circumstances; the influences of environment and the weight of tradition are vastly important to them, for these hide their inward poverty. The
Custom is the Guide of the Ignorant.
All isolation is wrong so say the herd. And long didst thou belong to the herd.
Now the question we must ask is ... what kind of _practices_ [theology] motivates, what kind of _gaze_ onto others, the guest, the new arrivant, it offers us to carry with us; _not_ who my neighbors are _but_ to whom I am being a neighbor.
Most of us don't want to be outsiders.
It's celebrated in British culture to be eccentric.
I was always an outsider, proud of being an outsider. I always reveled in the outsiders.
One thing is certain: Nothing will set you apart from culture more than the exclusive claims of Christianity. And it is here that we must intentionally set ourselves apart-because if we do not, we will have no message for the world!
If there is a distinctive Irish experience, it is one of division, exacerbated by the fact that division in a country so small seems perverse. But the scale doesn't matter.
A politician is not as narrow-minded as he forces himself to be.
I find it hard to see how my northern cousins could get so worked up about counties created by British imperialists.
I think provincialism is an endemic characteristic with mankind, I think everybody everywhere is provincial, but it is particularly striking with Texans, and we tend to be very Texcentric.
Citizens, regardless of their political inclinations, carry a devout sense of their shared culture and its temperament - and, having contributed to it all their lives, hold decent and reasonable hopes for its continued integrity.
I admit to a bias toward high culture.
The manner in which the Americans are subdivided into sects also conflicts with any commendable desire that may exist to build glorious temples in honor of the Deity: and convenience is more consulted than taste, perhaps, in all that relates to ecclesiastical architecture. Nevertheless,
Let us face a pluralistic world in which there are no universal churches, no single remedy for all diseases, no one way to teach or write or sing, no magic diet, no world poets, and no chosen races, but only the wretched and wonderfully diversified human race.
Pedigree and ancestry and what we ourselves have not achieved, I scarcely recognize as our own.
A second characteristic of our time is the prevalence of nationalism. This is still spreading, affecting new communities, more peripheral regions and so-called backward peoples.
Except for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which is so easy to come by. To be 'intellectual' or 'artistic' or, in their own word, to be 'highbrow,' is to be priggish and of dubious virtue.
We each appear to hold within ourselves a range of divergent views as to our native qualities.. And amid such uncertainty, we typically turn to the wider world to settle the question of our significance.. we seem beholden to affections of others to endure ourselves.
Who we are cannot be separated from where we're from.
Most people are principally aware of one culture, one setting, one home;exiles are are aware of at least two, and this plurality gives rise to an awareness of simultaneous dimensions...
The simple cannot choose their personal heresy, Adso; they cling to the man preaching in their land, who passes through their village or stops in their square.
One of the downsides of being special is that you feel out of place wherever you go.
What else is a nation but a patchwork of cities and towns; cities and towns a patchwork of neighborhoods; and neighborhoods a patchwork of homes?
I have no sense of nationalism, only a cosmic consciousness of belonging to the human family.
In the true sense one's native land, with its background of tradition, early impressions, reminiscences and other things dear to one, is not enough to make sensitive human beings feel at home.
To be insular is to be independent. But it is also to be alone.
Where issues used to be, say, parochial or local in Ireland or England and so forth, all politics is global now because all business is global.
When we begin to look around us, to observe individuals and societies, and to study philosophies and religions, we realize that our loneliness is shared. Our solitude is plural, and our singularity is the similarity between us.
A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions.
I grew up in a place that felt very integrated.
Not chance of birth or place has made us friends, Being oftentimes of different tongues and nations, But the endeavor for the selfsame ends, With the same hopes, and fears, and aspirations.
The individual whose vision encompasses the whole world often feels nowhere so hedged in and out of touch with his surroundings as in his native land.