"Science, unguided by a higher abstract principle, freely hands over its secrets to a vastly developed and commercially inspired technology, and the latter, even less restrained by a supreme culture saving principle, with the means of science creates all the instruments of power demanded from it by the organization of Might."

-- Johan Huizinga

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“While Thee I seek, protecting Power, Be my vain wishes stilled; And may this consecrated hour With better hopes be filled.”
“What is the right of the huntsman to the forest of a thousand miles over which he has accidentally ranged in quest of prey? Shall the fields and vallies, which a beneficent God has formed to teem with the life of innumerable multitudes, be condemned to everlasting barrenness?”
“I guess it's true what they say: if we could reason with religious people, there would be no religious people.”
“We all make the mistake thinking that how you look makes you more worthy of love.”
“God commands you to pray, but forbids you to worry.”
“The real names of our people were destroyed during slavery. The last name of my forefathers was taken from them when they were brought to America and made slaves, and then the name of the slave master was given, which we refuse, we reject that name today and refuse it. I never acknowledge it whatsoever.”
“We strive to teach our children the importance of being caring and compassionate to others. This outpouring of emotion and effort by our children was so gratifying, and what they achieved absolutely exceeded our wildest expectations.”
“The resting place of the mind is the heart. The only thing the mind hears all day is clanging bells and noise and argument, and all it wants is quietude. The only place the mind will ever find peace is inside the silence of the heart. That's where you need to go.”

Source : Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.149, Bloomsbury Publishing

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