"Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life."

-- Aristotle

#Atheist Quotes #Men Quotes #Religion Quotes

“If something is not to your liking, change your liking.”
“The point I would make is that the novelist and the historian are seeking the same thing: the truth â€“ not a different truth: the same truth â€“ only they reach it, or try to reach it, by different routes. Whether the event took place in a world now gone to dust, preserved by documents and evaluated by scholarship, or in the imagination, preserved by memory and distilled by the creative process, they both want to tell us how it was: to re-create it, by their separate methods, and make it live again in the world around them.”

Source : Shelby Foote (2011). “The Civil War: A Narrative: Volume 1: Fort Sumter to Perryville”, p.815, Vintage
“Give up this dry discussion, this hodge-podge of philosophy. Who has been able to know God by reasoning? Even sages like Suka and Vyasa are at best like big ants trying to carry away a few grains of sugar from a large hea”
“Your good is happening right now, even as you accept this statement of truth.”
“The spleen is seldom felt where Flora reigns; The low'ring eye, the petulance, the frown, And sullen sadness, that o'ershade, distort, And mar the face of beauty, when no cause For such immeasurable woe appears; These Flora banishes, and gives the fair Sweet smiles, and bloom less transient than her own.”
“One reads books in order to gain the privilege of living more than one life. People who don't read are trapped in a mine shaft, even if they think the sun is shining.”
“Some authors have what amounts to a metaphysical approach. They admit to inspiration. Sudden and unaccountable urgencies to writecatapult them out of sleep and bed. For myself, I have never awakened to jot down an idea that was acceptable the following morning.”
“Typography at its best is a visual form of language linking timelessness and time.”

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