“Rituals are like electrically powered transmitters sending stimulating sparks of electric current or inspirational feelings that connect us to our inner being or soul.”
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“Our point of departure must be the conception of an almost childlike play-sense expressing itself in various play-forms, some serious, some playful, but all rooted in ritual and productive of culture by allowing the innate human need of rhythm, harmony, change, alternation, contrast and climax, etc., to unfold in full richness.”
― Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play Element in Culture
― Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play Element in Culture
“Annushka has already bought the sunflower oil, and has not only bought it, but has already spilled it.”
― The Master and Margarita
― The Master and Margarita
“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
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“How can we be “free” as conscious agents if everything that we consciously intend is caused by events in our brain that we do not intend and of which we are entirely unaware?”
― Free Will
― Free Will
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