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The substance of all such paganism may be summarised thus. It is an attempt to reach the divine reality through the imagination alone; in its own field reason does not restrain it at all. It is vital to the view of all history that reason is something separate from religion even in the most rational of these civilisations. It is only as an afterthought, when such cults are decadent or on the defensive, that a few Neo-Platonists or a few Brahmins are found trying to rationalise them, and... Gilbert K. Chesterton
Our rational minds can never understand what has happened, but our hearts.. if we can keep them open to God, will find their own intuitive way. Ram Dass
Traian Basescu quote: "I ask you to stand by my side in the next five years. We shall..."
I ask you to stand by my side in the next five years. We shall live a good life in a Romania of all Romanians. Traian Basescu
You cannot be against embryonic stem cell research and be intellectually and therefore morally consistent, if you're not also against in vitro fertilization. Ron Reagan
Elbert Hubbard quote: "Life is just one damned thing after another."
Life is just one damned thing after another. Elbert Hubbard
Harrison Birtwistle quote: "I don't think there is much American music."
I don't think there is much American music. Harrison Birtwistle
Euripides quote: "The best of seers is he who guesses well."
The best of seers is he who guesses well. Euripides
You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye Who cheer when soldier lads march by, Sneak home and pray you'll never know The hell where youth and laughter go." "The War Poems Siegfried Sassoon
Bette Davis quote: "I'd luv to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair."
I'd luv to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair. Bette Davis
I'm not afraid to compete. It's just the opposite. Don't you see that? I'm afraid I will compete? that's what scares me. That's why I quit the Theatre Department. Just because I'm so horribly conditioned to accept everybody else's values, and just because I like applause and people to rave about me, doesn't make it right. I'm ashamed of it. I'm sick of it. I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody. I'm sick of myself and everybody else that wants to make some kind of a splash. J. D. Salinger
We are given over to absolute solitude. No one can speak with us and no one can speak for us; we must take it upon ourselves, each of us must take it upon himself. Jacques Derrida
V. S. Pritchett quote: "The profoundly humorous writers are humorous because they are..."
The profoundly humorous writers are humorous because they are responsive to the hopeless, uncouth, concatenations of life. V. S. Pritchett
Nora Roberts quote: "The purest magic is in the heart....."
The purest magic is in the heart..... Nora Roberts
George Will quote: "Being elected to Congress is regarded as being sent on a..."
Being elected to Congress is regarded as being sent on a looting raid for one's friends. George Will
James M. Cain quote: "Stealing a man's wife, that's nothing, but stealing his car,..."
Stealing a man's wife, that's nothing, but stealing his car, that's larceny. James M. Cain