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“Learn silence. With the quiet serenity of a meditative mind, listen, absorb, transcribe, and transform.”
― The Golden Verses of Pythagoras
― The Golden Verses of Pythagoras
“Intimacy inevitably creates conflict.”
― Fight Right: How Successful Couples Turn Conflict Into Connection
― Fight Right: How Successful Couples Turn Conflict Into Connection
“Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.”
― The Big Book of Ancient Classics: Contains the works of Aristotle, Plato, Homer, Aeschylus...
― The Big Book of Ancient Classics: Contains the works of Aristotle, Plato, Homer, Aeschylus...
“The economy functions strictly and instrumentally according to iron conventions, imposed unequally on nations by the great transnational economic bodies; it establishes hierarchies of wealth and power; it enforces on the vast majority of the world's inhabitants a timetabled and regulated working life, while consoling them with visions of cinematic lives given meaning through adventure and coherent narrative (in which heroes make their lives free precisely by breaking the rules), and with plaintive songs of rebellion or love.”
― Contemporary Art: A Very Short Introduction
― Contemporary Art: A Very Short Introduction
“But how do you know that [your faith] was not all a delusion—the product of your own fervid imagination? Do not mistake me; I want to find it true.”
“It is a right and honest question, my lady. I will tell you. Not to mention the conviction which a truth beheld must carry with itself...this experience goes far with me...namely, that all my difficulties and confusions have gone on clearing themselves up ever since I set out to walk in that way. My consciousness of life is threefold what it was; my perception of what is lovely around me, and my delight in it, threefold; my power of understanding things and of ordering my way, threefold also; the same with my hope and my courage, my love to my kind, my power of forgiveness. In short, I cannot but believe that my whole being and its whole world are in process of rectification for me. Is not that something to set against the doubt born of the eye and ear, and the questions of an intellect that can neither grasp nor disprove? I say nothing of better things still.”
― The Marquis of Lossie
“It is a right and honest question, my lady. I will tell you. Not to mention the conviction which a truth beheld must carry with itself...this experience goes far with me...namely, that all my difficulties and confusions have gone on clearing themselves up ever since I set out to walk in that way. My consciousness of life is threefold what it was; my perception of what is lovely around me, and my delight in it, threefold; my power of understanding things and of ordering my way, threefold also; the same with my hope and my courage, my love to my kind, my power of forgiveness. In short, I cannot but believe that my whole being and its whole world are in process of rectification for me. Is not that something to set against the doubt born of the eye and ear, and the questions of an intellect that can neither grasp nor disprove? I say nothing of better things still.”
― The Marquis of Lossie
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