"Painting contains a divine force which... makes the dead seem almost alive."

-- Leon Battista Alberti

#Alive Quotes #Painting Quotes #Divine Quotes

“I have tasted a thrill in fellowship with God which has made anything discordant with God disgusting.”

Source : Frank Laubach (2012). “Letters by a Modern Mystic: Excerpts from letters written to his father by Frank C. Laubach”, p.14, SPCK
“I want to make people cry even when they don't understand my words.”
“Iâ€™m sick and tired of life with no desire. I donâ€™t want a flame, I want a fire.”
“Absolute time would exist in a causal structure for which the concept indeterminate as to time order lends to a unique simultaneity, i.e., for which there is no finite interval of time between the departure and return of a first-signal...”

Source : "The Philosophy of Space and Time". Book by Hans Reichenbach, 1957.
“I don't even listen to rap. My apartment is too nice to listen to rap in.”
“Love was one of those feelings that you could never control.”
“I do not know if the doctrine that the nation-state arose in the 19th century was still being taught:;... but it is erroneous. The nation-state reaches back far into the origins of Europe itself and perhaps beyond. If Europe was not always a Europe of nations, it was always a Europe in which nations existed, and were taken for granted, as a basic form of the State.”
“But the Western countries that link their partnership with the poorest countries with respect for democracy also have to consider that they have obligations towards these countries.”

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