"One of the great unresolved psychological enigmas of the modern western world is the question of what or who has persuaded us to accept as virtually axiomatic a self-view and a world-view that demand we reject out of hand the wisdom and vision of our major philosophers and poets in order to imprison our thought and our very selves in the materialist, mechanical and dogmatic torture-chamber devised by purely quantitative and third-rate scientific minds."

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Source : Philip Sherrard (1992). “Human image, world image: the death and resurrection of sacred cosmology”, Sophia Perennis

Philip Sherrard

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“You will never be on this anchor desk, because you're Chinese.”

Source : "Julie Chen had plastic surgery to make eyes 'bigger'". The USA Today Article, www.usatoday.com. September 12, 2013.
“You have to really believe in what you're doing, be passionate enough about it so that you will put in the hours and hard work that it takes to actually succeed there, and then you'll be successful.”
“Visualize this thing you want. See it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blueprint and begin.”

Source : Robert Collier (2013). “Secrets of the Ages”, p.123, Simon and Schuster
“Science is paramount, but presents no challenge to a creed that rests on faith-based belief.”

Source : "The Dark Side of the Universe". Astronomy and Geophysics, April 2007.
“The fact that in the last 10 years only five of the 40 Turner Prize nominees have been painters tells you more about curators than about the state of painting today.”

Source : Charles Saatchi (2009). “My Name is Charles Saatchi and I Am an Artoholic”, Phaidon Press
“I get atomic, hypo-galactical... Word to mom, I'm in my own world. Galaxy rays? Powerful.”
“We have now recently launched the national integrity plan.”
“We can be lonely together”

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