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Ernst Cassirer

"We think of religion as the symbolic expression of our highest moral ideals; we think of magic as a crude aggregate of superstitions. Religious belief seems to become mere superstitious credulity if we admit any relationship with magic. On the other hand our anthropological and ethnographical material makes it extremely difficult to separate the two fields."

Source : Ernst Cassirer, Maureen Lukay (2006). “An essay on man: an introduction to a philosophy of human culture”, Meiner Verlag

Ernst Cassirer

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“When the ship docks, I'm getting off with you. This is crazy. I know it doesn't make any sense, that's why I trust it.”
“There is no international problem that can be addressed or solved without the engagement and leadership of the United States and everybody in the world knows that, its just fact of life. So sometimes I think we could conduct ourselves with a little more humility.”
“The time has come to move beyond eco-elitism to eco-populism.”
“There is as far as I know, no example in history, of any state voluntarily ceding power from the centre to its constituent parts.”
“the constant shower of the sun's mane erases the footprints on thin ice do not fear deception for the world lies atop deception ~Toushiro Hitsugaya”
“Listen to the stage manager and get on stage when they tell you to. No one has time for the rock star bullshit. None of the techs backstage care if you're David Bowie or the milkman. When you act like a jerk, they are completely unimpressed with the infantile display that you might think comes with your dubious status. They were there hours before you building the stage, and they will be there hours after you leave tearing it down. They should get your salary, and you should get theirs.”

Source : "Black Coffee Blues". Book by Henry Rollins, 1992.
“The real pride, the real present, is your health and your longevity.”
“Then everything was still. Absolutely still.”

Source : Mary Pope Osborne, Will Osborne (2014). “Magic Tree House Fact & Fiction: Ghosts”, p.83, Random House Books for Young Readers

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