"Treasure the shadow. ... There are no shadows save from substance cast."

-- Edith M. Thomas

#Shadow Quotes #Substance Quotes #Treasure Quotes

“...I suddenly felt in myself all the weight of Europe: the weight of deliberate purpose in all our actions. I thought to myself, 'How difficult it is for us to attain to reality... We always try to grab it: but it does not like to be grabbed. Only where it overwhelms man does it surrender itself to him.”

Source : Muhammad Asad (1954). “The Road To Mecca”, p.92, The Book Foundation
“Vanity is a vital aid to nature: completely and absolutely necessary to life. It is one of nature's ways to bind you to the earth.”

Source : Elizabeth Smart, Alice Van Wart (1991). “Necessary secrets: the journals of Elizabeth Smart”, Grafton Books
“Ninety percent of [contemporary philosophers] see their principle task as that of beating religion out of men's heads. ... We are far from being able to provide scientific basis for the theological world view.”

Source : "Logical Dilemmas: The Life and Work of Kurt Gödel". Book by John W. Dawson Jr., 1997.
“Close your eyes and let music set you free.”
“It's amazing to see that people came to see you. That, that was their wish.”
“He tried to remember how this happened â€“ how she went from someone heâ€™d never met to the only one who mattered.”
“So Republican candidates bash Obamacare and move up in the polls. Given that public opinion remains firmly against the health care law - as it has been for years - that's not a shock. Democratic beliefs to the contrary are probably wishful thinking.”
“My philosophy is fundamentally sad, but Iâ€™m not a sad man, and I donâ€™t believe I sadden anyone else. In other words, the fact that I donâ€™t put my philosophy into practice saves me from its evil spell, or, rather, my faith in the human race is stronger then my intellectual analysis of it; there lies the fountain of youth in which my heart is continually bathing.”

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