"They, who would combat general authority with particular opinion, must first establish themselves a reputation of understanding better than other men."

-- John Dryden

#Men Quotes #Understanding Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“The only person standing in your way is you.”
“Today we know not only that there is a terrible amount of disorder in the heavens - great catastrophes or conflagrations occur frequently - but evolution gives us a perfectly natural explanation of such order as there is. No distinguished astronomer now traces "the finger of God" in the heavens; and astronomers ought to know best.”

Source : Joseph McCabe (1929). “The Story of Religious Controversy”
“Nature knows best how to organise.”
“Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine.”
“You know, when you don't have your real income, your take-home pay increase for a decade or a decade-and-a-half, it makes you awfully discouraged. And then when you see other things in society changing so rapidly, and you think that government is ineffective and unable to - incapable of taking steps, appropriate steps to make sure that America can lead, lead on the international stage and lead the international economy, I think that was so much of this.”
“Whatever we have of this world in our hands, our care must be to keep it out of our hearts, lest it come between us and Christ.”
“Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them as the birth pangs of a new order.”
“Finally we are being told the truth: life isnâ€™t always easy and pleasant. We already know this to be true, but somehow we tend to go through life thinking that there is something wrong with us when we experience sadness, grief, and physical and emotional pain. The first truth points out that this is just the way it is. There is nothing wrong with you: you have just been born into a realm where pain is a given.”

Source : Noah Levine (2009). “Against the Stream: A Buddhist Manual for Spiritual Revolutionaries”, p.19, Harper Collins

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