"Enlightenment is not meant to be an object of religious faith. It is an evolutionary goal, something we want to become..."

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Robert Thurman

#God Quotes #Religious Quotes #Goal Quotes

“I believe that most of what was said of God was in reality said of that Spirit whose body is Earth.”
“Despite my critical take on the city, I love Delhi, on the whole - love its monuments, love how easily graspable the city's turbulent history is. The negative things I write about are considered normal here.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“It was an attempt to stick the Congress's finger in King Hussein's eye.”
“Capitalism is the sorcerer's apprentice: it has summoned up powers which have spun wildly out of control and now threaten to destroy us.The task of socialism is not to spur on those powers but to bring them under rational human control.”
“I guess what I'd like to say is that people in Sierra Leone are human beings, just like Americans. They want to send their kids to school; they want to live in peace; they want to have their basic rights of life just like everyone else. I think we all owe an obligation to support people who want to do that.”
“We humans have two great problems: the first is knowing when to begin; the second is knowing when to stop.”
“The office of Speaker is almost as ancient as Parliament itself. It emerged in the Middle Ages when the Commons - the ordinary people - of England needed a spokesman in their dealings with the King, someone who would voice their grievances and present their petitions. This was by no means a safe or easy thing to do at that time, and potential spokesman generally had to be pressured into accepting the responsibility.”

Source : John Allen Fraser (1993). “The House of Commons at Work”, Montréal : Éditions de la Chenelière
“I am my best self when I have super-short hair. That's when I feel most like me and most confident.”

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