"Not material or economic conditions in the ordinary sense, but perverse religious ideas explain the suspension of civilization in Europe from the 5th to the 12th century, and in the Mohammedan world after the 15th century."

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Source : Joseph McCabe “Great Ideas Made Simple”

Joseph McCabe

#Religious Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Europe Quotes

“I love sport, I grew up playing sports, that's all I did, and it is so invigorating now that I'm supposedly adult to learn something completely new, from the bottom up.”
“If the masses are not thrown a few novels , they may react by throwing up a few barricades.”
“Blake said that the body was the soul's prison unless the five senses are fully developed and open. He considered the senses the 'windows of the soul.' When sex involves all the senses intensely, it can be like a mystical experence.”
“Kenney knows two essential truths about melodrama: First that it is most powerful when combined with irony and understatement; and second that it is a salient feature of modern life.”
“I don't think you can write according to a set of rules and laws; every writer is so different.”

Source : "The Writer's Block Myth: A Guide To Get Past Stuck & Experience Lasting Creative Freedom". Book by Heloise Jones, 2017.
“A man's house is his castle.”
“I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value.”
“They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge.”

Source : "Political Insults: Cheap Shots or Do They Play an Important Role in American Politics?" by Rich Rubino, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2014.

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