"All great literature has an uncreeded and luminous theology behind it... Art [is] a form of active prayer."

-- Melissa Pritchard

#Art Quotes #Prayer Quotes #Literature Quotes

“Organization makes a system of many appear fewer.”
“During my life I have seen, known, and lost too much to be the prey of vain dread; and, as for the hope of immortality, I am as weary of that as I am of gods and kings. For my own sake only I write this; and herein I differ from all other writers, past and to come.”
“Thing, body, matter, are nothing apart from the combinations of the elements, - the colours, sounds, and so forth - nothing apart from their so-called attributes.”

Source : Ernst Mach (1996). “The analysis of sensations”
“Taking advantage of the method, found by me, of the black staining of the elements of the brain, staining obtained by the prolonged immersion of the pieces, previously hardened with potassium or ammonium bichromate, in a 0.50 or 1.0% solution of silver nitrate, I happened to discover some facts concerning the structure of the cerebral gray matter that I believe merit immediate communication.”
“I didnt know of any homophile movements pre-Stonewall.”
“No matter how vast your knowledge or how modest, it is your own mind that has to acquire it.”
“Study the Constitution. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislatures, and enforced in courts of justice.”
“In other words, Judaism is not Calvinism.”

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