Like dogs who sniff each other when meeting, chess players have a ritual at first acquaintance: they sit down to play speed… — Anatoly Karpov Copy Share Image
The need for the creation of collective art and ritual on a nonclerical basis is at least as important as literacy and… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
"The way of Cain" describes any religious system that attempts to earn God's favor by works and rituals rather than reliance on… — Robert Jeffress Copy Share Image
For ritual allows those who cannot will themselves out of the secular to perform the spiritual, as dancing allows the tongue-tied man… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
I am tolerably ignorant about Judaism, and much of what I do know about it seems hard to swallow, because it is… — Fred Melamed Copy Share Image
I don't have a special place or ritual for writing songs, basically I write songs whenever an idea hits me, in my… — Kelly Jones Copy Share Image
Going to see Godzilla at the Palais of the Cannes Film Festival is like attending a satanic ritual in St. Peter's Basilica. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
“Rituals are the kindergarten of religion. They are absolutely necessary for the world as it is now; only we shall have to… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
There are traditionalists, and there are people in the middle, which is where I am. I still get my newspaper delivered. I… — Glenda Bailey Copy Share Image
I loved the atmosphere of the dance studios - the wooden floors, the big mirrors, everyone dressed in pink or black tights,… — Suzanne Vega Copy Share Image
What nearly everybody in my life had misunderstood about Satanism was that it is not about ritual sacrifices, digging up graves and… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
It's the same thing as a primitive of Africans, Indians, nomads or whatever - when they start getting up and doing their… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
In all the antique religions, mythology takes the place of dogma; that is, the sacred lore of priests and people... and these… — William Robertson Smith Copy Share Image
Ultimately I think I learned a lot from my mother - the way she used fashion to make herself feel better; it… — Matthew Williamson Copy Share Image
Hana: What on Earth is a 'barbeque'? Hel: A primitive tribal ritual featuring paper plates, elbows, flying insects, encrusted meat, hush puppies,… — Trevanian Copy Share Image
“As William Bouwsma pointed out, the late medieval and early Renaissance crises of representation did not stall out at their skepticism of… — Lori Branch Copy Share Image
There's nothing wrong with commercial art. There's nothing wrong with consumer society. There's nothing wrong with advertising. There's nothing wrong with shopping… — Chloe Wise Copy Share Image
“The rites of passage in the academic world are arcane and, in their own way, highly romantic, and the tensions and unplesantries… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
The life of a savage is beset by glowering terrors: from birth to death he lives in an animated world; where the… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Scapegoating worked in practice while it still had religious powers behind it. You loaded the sins of the city on to the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Without the letters of condolence, telegrams of congratulations, and occasional postcards, the friendship of a separated friend is not a social reality.… — Mary Douglas Copy Share Image
What really counted was the possibility of escape, a leap of freedom, out of the implacable ritual, a wild run for it… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The symbolic display seen by the abductees is identical to the type of initiation ritual or astral voyage that is imbedded in… — Jacques Vallee Copy Share Image
Much that passes for education is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we are being educated when we… — David P. Gardner Copy Share Image
With ritual, I punctuate my days till they no longer belong to who I am today but to who I'll be when… — Andre Aciman Copy Share Image
The true shaman, the true naturalist, works to reconnect conscious human life with Nature and Spirit through totems and ritual. — Ted Andrews Copy Share Image
“In every religion there are three parts: philosophy, mythology, and ritual. Philosophy” — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Ritual disposal of the dead speaks clearly of an awareness of death, and thus an awareness of self. — Richard Leakey Copy Share Image
Routine is really important. However late you went to bed the night before, or however much you had to drink, get up… — Mark-Anthony Turnage Copy Share Image
Mechanical reproduction emancipates the work of art from its parasitical dependence on ritual. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
I have always had an interest in how cultural rituals play into something as unpredictable as romance. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
The function of ritual, as I understand it, is to give form to human life, not in the way of a mere… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Ritual is the most primitive reflection of serious thought, a slow deposit, as it were, of people's imaginative insight into life. — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
Since the nature of people is bad, to become corrected they must be taught by teachers and to be orderly they must… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We should think of a photographer as a Samurai who makes rituals, moves and gestures in order to develop his techniques and… — Alex Majoli Copy Share Image
“Thanks to Karen Connelly who read earlier versions of this manuscript and to Ronald Hatch my editor and publisher.” — Nancy Holmes Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, our family used to watch 'Bonanza.' I really liked having a Sunday night TV ritual. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
There are so many spiders, and their rituals, their mating rituals, their courtship ritual, can be very, very different. — Isabella Rossellini Copy Share Image
It's part of my ritual to watch a new film every day, no matter what. It's important to me. — Hideo Kojima Copy Share Image
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