"The world of religion is no longer a concrete fact proposed for our acceptance and adoration. It is an unfathomable universe which engulfs us, and which lives its own majestic uncomprehended life: and we discover that our careful maps and cherished definitions bear little relation to its unmeasured reality."

-- Evelyn Underhill

#Acceptance Quotes #Reality Quotes #Religion Quotes

“I think about the body kind of all the time, being as how I'm really uncomfortable in mine.”
“It's not like I listened to music and then stopped. I still don't have a real appreciation for music because I didn't really start listening to it until my 20s.”

Source : "Kumail Nanjiani Can Totally Relate to His Character on HBO’s 'Silicon Valley'". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. January 2016.
“The best way to make a sort of peace, a fragile armistice to be sure, but precious all the same, with men, officers or not, is to let them bask and wallow in childish self-glorification. Thereâ€™s no such thing as intelligent vanity. Itâ€™s an instinct. And youâ€™ll never find a man who is not first and formenost vain. The role of admiring doormat is about the only one that one man is glad to tolerate in another. With these soldiers I had no need to tax my imagination.”
“Experience is like a comb that life gives you when you are bald.”
“There's hope around the corner.”
“Itâ€™s true that the mind is where all ideas are born, but the body is the tool that translates and expresses those ideas to the wider world. It is nothing but a vehicle for our greater creative purpose but if we donâ€™t give it fuel and keep it in good working order it instead becomes another obstacle to transcend, a physical one, as well as the many million fictitious mental ones that society presents.”
“Who is moving in the distance? It is the clock's pendulum, Hired by the god of death To measure life.”
“Effective translation of natural languages comes awfully close to requiring a sentient translator program.”

Source : Vernor Vinge (2010). “Zones of Thought: A Fire Upon the Deep, A Deepness in the Sky”, p.257, Hachette UK

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