A Marxist begins with his prime truth that all evils are caused by the exploitation of the proletariat by the capitalists. From… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
If all stories are fiction, fiction can be true -- not in detail or fact, but in some transformed version of feeling.… — Jayne Anne Phillips Copy Share Image
May this marriage be blessed.May this marriage be as sweet as milk and honey.May this marriage be as intoxicating as old wine.May… — Rumi Copy Share Image
The problem is not that religious people are stupid. It's not that religious fundamentalists are stupid. I happen to think that you… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
It's a simplification to say that the men [during Stone Age] went to war to maintain their dominance over the women. The… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
If the world were a paradise of luxury and ease, a land flowing with milk and honey, where every Jack obtained his… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Aesthetic racism is almost always a sign of inexperience. Those who have not made their way far enough into the world of… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
It is at once by way of poetry and through poetry, as with music, that the soul glimpses splendors from beyond the… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
The 20th century mind is nostalgic for the paradise that once existed on the mushroom dotted plains of Africa where the plant-human… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“Paradise,’ he began, and the p meant a spray. ‘The old legend about Paradise—that was about us, about right now. Yes! Just… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
It may seem paradoxical to say that we have been expelled from the present, but it is a feeling we have all… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
The word "utopia" has two meanings. It means both "good place" and "nowhere". That's the way it should be. The happiest places,… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
“The construction of castle arbours, monastic cloister gardens and Byzantine courtyards with trees and flowers attested to Western interest in the natural… — Karen R. Jones & John Wills Copy Share Image
“Since both the departed saints and we ourselves are in Christ, we share with them in the 'communion of saints.' They are… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
I perceive we postpone all our joys of Christ, till He and we be in our own house above, thinking that there… — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
“The bad angels were the jinn, and the good angels were the jinn too, and we spoke to them both in the… — Hannah Lillith Assadi Copy Share Image
“Your voice, through the beelike hum, was remote and anxious. It kept sliding into the distance and vanishing. I spoke to you… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“No ancient Jew was ever promised, or expected, a heavenly life. That was a wild and outrageous teaching of Jesus. Holy text… — Michael Ben Zehabe Copy Share Image
The Tao can't be perceived. Smaller than an electron, it contains uncountable galaxies. If powerful men and women could remain centered in… — Laozi Copy Share Image
God made sun and moon to distinguish the seasons, and day and night; and we cannot have the fruits of the earth… — John Donne Copy Share Image
First of all, Buddhism is neither pessimistic nor optimistic. If anything at all, it is realistic, for it takes a realistic view… — Walpola Rahula Copy Share Image
“Until every soul is freely permitted to investigate every book, and creed, and dogma for itself, the world cannot be free. Mankind… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
When those deserving of Paradise would enter Paradise, the Blessed and the Exalted would ask: Do you wish Me to give you… — Muhammad Copy Share Image
There is lust and then there is love. They are related, but still very different things. To indulge in one requires little… — Anne Fortier Copy Share Image
I became an ifrit to save the lives of my fellow jinn. What kind of life saver would I be if I… — Jackson Pearce Copy Share Image
How rare were the tears of a dragon. We once lived in paradise and because of the corruption of an angel disgused… — Bryan Davis Copy Share Image
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