Quotes
Authors
Lactantius
"Therefore let men withdraw themselves from errors; and laying aside corrupt superstitions, let them acknowledge their Father and Lord, whose excellence cannot be estimated, nor His greatness perceived, nor His beginning comprehended." --
Source : Lactantius (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Lactantius (Annotated Edition)”, p.36, Jazzybee Verlag
Lactantius
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#Men Quotes
“The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.”
“Greatness be nothing unless it be lasting.”
“Set your sights on a place higher than your eyes can see.”
“I'm not against art fairs, in fact this last one I even made money, but the concept is really disgusting. If you're that rich to be able to hang out for two or three days, you're certainly rich enough to get on a plane and go to Munich or Düsseldorf or wherever and see somebody's real show instead of this stuff just stacked around.”
Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I perceive and relate to the world through where I grew up; that's part of me. It's what I judge everything else against.”
“Love ... is a sacred fire that must not be burnt to idols.”
“The experimentalists think that we can only get at our concepts by way of empirical investigation, while the armchair philosophers think that we can skip the experiments and figure things out from our armchairs. What they have in common, however, is regarding our concepts as the targets of philosophical theorising, and I just don't think that, in the vast majority of cases, the subject matter of philosophy has our concepts as its target.”
“How can you ask someone to live in the world and not have something to say about injustice?”
Source : John Carlos, Dave Zirin (2011). “The John Carlos Story: The Sports Moment that Changed the World”, p.1, Haymarket Books
