"Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves."

-- William Ellery Channing

#Spiritual Quotes #Judging Quotes #Intellectual Quotes

“Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.”
“Build what you want to see in the world.”
“Fichte is concerned with freedom as non-domination.”
“Youâ€™re evil, you know that?â€ I said. She grinned and shook her head. â€œChaotic Neutral, sugar.”
“The new shift in thinking is the gateway to human transformation. And because of the sheer number of people involved in this shift, and the growing magnitude of the crises that are driving us to change the way we think, we are standing on the threshold of human transformation at a level unlike anything ever before known on Earth.”
“If there is one word that you find coming out like a bomb from the Upanishads, bursting like a bombshell upon masses of ignorance, it is the word "fearlessness."”
“Read at least one book a month. This is self-serving, obviously. It's a proven fact that people who read buy more books than people who don't read. In truth, I wish you'd read ten books a month, or at least buy that many.”
“Sorrow is how we learn to love. Your heart isn't breaking. It hurts because it's getting larger. The larger it gets, the more love it holds.”

Source : Rita Mae Brown (2009). “Riding Shotgun”, p.151, Bantam

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