"Without a belief in personal immortality, religion surely is like an arch resting on one pillar, like a bridge ending in an abyss."

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Max Muller

#Bridges Quotes #Arches Quotes #Pillars Quotes

“Often in winter the end of the day is like the final metaphor in a poem celebrating death: there is no way out.”
“Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.”
“Women more than men can strip war of its glamour and its out-of-date heroisms and patriotisms, and see it as a demon of destruction and hideous wrong.”
“You never suffer from a money problem, you always suffer from an idea problem.”
“Every reality before your eyes was once imagined in the mind of one person. No matter who judges or knocks your dream, pay no attention to them. Instead, create what you imagine, and you will then be amazed at the Divine creative capacity you do have that will be well remembered for serving others.”
“We need a renaissance of wonder. We need to renew, in our hearts and in our souls, the deathless dream, the eternal poetry, the perennial sense that life is miracle and magic.”
“I approach serious subjects, and I like to have the good guys win and have the parents among the good guys”
“Character is destiny, and politicians usually get the scandals they deserve, with a sense of inevitability about them.”

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