Elizabeth Taylor is, in my opinion, the greatest actress in film history. She instinctively understands the camera and its nonverbal intimacies. Opening… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“Many questions come to mind. How influenced by contemporary religions were many of the scholars who wrote the texts available today? How… — Merlin Stone Copy Share Image
“At present, the successful office-seeker is a good deal like the center of the earth; he weighs nothing himself, but draws everything… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“... that eternally restless, eternally unquenched desire for naked paganism, that love that is the supreme joy, that is divine serenity itself-… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
I think it's important to realise that what happens in Neo-Platonism beginning with Plotinus and Porphyry and then going on for the… — Peter Adamson Copy Share Image
Yet rather than calling the earliest religions, which embraced such an open acceptance of all human sexuality, 'fertility cults,' we might consider… — Merlin Stone Copy Share Image
“The months passed away. Slowly a great fear came over Viola, a fear that would hardly ever leave her. For every month… — Barry Pain Copy Share Image
Samhain had its origins, like many modern holidays or celebrations, in pagan times. As the sidhe-seers had been inclined to erect churches… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
Christians have ... identified their opponents, whether Jews, pagans, or heretics, with forces of evil, and so with Satan... Nor have things… — Elaine Pagels Copy Share Image
“Black magic, the magic of the primeval chaos, blots out or transmogrifies the true form of things. At the stroke of twelve… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
England has to fulfill a double mission in India: one destructive, the other regenerating - the annihilation of old Asiatic society, and… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
It was the Faith which gradually and indirectly transformed the slave into the serf, and the serf into the free peasant. .… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
Historically the customs and traditions of day-to-day life in Africa have been dismissed by Western cultural anthropologists as primitive, chaotic, pagan activities… — Malidoma Patrice Some Copy Share Image
Fashion is primitive in its insistence on exhibitionism, which withers in isolation. The catwalk fashion show with its incandescent hype is its… — Stephen Bayley Copy Share Image
“A long time ago I lived in Lisbon,' she said, in softly slurred Portuguese that made the name of the city Leesh-boa.… — Henry Kuttner Copy Share Image
Anyone who says that economic security is a human right, has been to much babied. While he babbles, other men are risking… — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share Image
