Allan Sandage famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

God help us if we ever take the theater out of the auction business or anything else. It would be an awfully boring world.
As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.
Photographs are of course about their makers, and are to be read for what they disclose in that regard no less than for what they reveal of the world as their makers comprehend, invent, and describe it.
And how am I to face the odds Of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.
Priests might divide the world into good and bad. In battle there was strong and weak and nothing else.
I thought religion would make me live with my head in the clouds, but as often as not, it grounds me in this world.
Dance on the edge of mystery.
The past is history; The future is a mystery; This moment is a gift; That is why this moment is called the present; Enjoy it.
What we fear is what we do not know. When something is cloaked by the darkness of uncertainty, it's a mystery. Allowing light to penetrate that darkness makes everything clear.
NGOs have a complicated space in neoliberal politics. They are supposed to mop up the anger. Even when they are doing good work, they are supposed to maintain the status quo. They are the missionaries of the corporate world.

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