"A crowd of grade-three thinkers, all shouting the same thing, all warming their hands at the fire of their own prejudices, will not thank you for pointing out the contradictions in their beliefs. Man is a gregarious animal, and enjoys agreement as cows will graze all the same way on the side of a hill."

-- William Golding

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“Christ is so in love with holiness, that at the price of His blood He will buy it for us.”
“We live in a modern world, and in contemporary music the central fact is contamination. Not the contamination of disease but the contamination of musical styles. If you find this in me, that is good.”
“Talk about divine intervention. I can't even tell you how blessed I feel.”
“Photography can be a deceitful, superficial medium that leads us into believing something even though we know it's not necessarily true. It lulls us into a false sense of complacency.”

Source : "What I see in the mirror" by Alison Jackson, www.theguardian.com. November 10, 2007.
“I'm less interested in skin than in fascia -- connective tissue.”
“October's bellowing anger breakes and cleavesThe bronzed battalions of the stricken woodIn whose lament I hear a voice that grievesFor battle's fruitless harvest, and the feudOf outrage men. Their lives are like the leavesScattered in flocks of ruin, tossed and blownAlong the westering furnace flaring red.O martyred youth and manhood overthrown,The burden of your wrongs is on my head.”
“As Aurobindo and Teilhard de Chardin knew, the future of humankind is God-consciousness.”

Source : Ken Wilber (1999). “The Collected Works of Ken Wilber: The Atman Project ; Up from Eden”, Shambhala Publications
“Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.”

Source : Tom Stoppard (2013). “Jumpers”, p.51, Faber & Faber

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