"Popular religion since the time of Kant and Fichte has gone in a direction they tried to prevent and that has been disastrous for the humanity both of believers and of the rest of us. Look at the role of religion in Republican presidential primaries if you need any confirmation of this last statement."

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Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com

Allen W. Wood

#Presidential Quotes #Humanity Quotes #Lasts Quotes

“I think self-discipline is something, it's like a muscle. The more you exercise it, the stronger it gets.”
“We negotiate with chaos for some sense of satisfaction.”
“The original is unfaithful to the translation.”
“The beauty of artifacts is in how they reassure us weâ€™re not the first to die.”
“A cat never discusses his business with humans, not even Princesses. A cat never explains and never apologizes. A cat never alibis. You must accept a cat as it is and for what it is and not expect more than the pleasure of its company.”

Source : Terry Brooks (2009). “A Princess of Landover”, p.135, Del Rey
“It was curious to think that the sky was the same for everybody, in Eurasia or Eastasia as well as here. And the people under the sky were also very much the same--everywhere, all over the world, hundreds or thousands of millions of people just like this, people ignorant of one another's existence, held apart by walls of hatred and lies, and yet almost exactly the same--people who had never learned to think but were storing up in their hearts and bellies and muscles the power that would one day overturn the world.”
“There were a hundred booksellers in the old round city founded by the eighth-century caliph al-Mansur. The cafÃ© and wine-drinking culture of Baghdad has been famous for centuries; there was a whole school of Iraqi poets who wrote poems about the wine bars of medieval Baghdad - the khamriyaat, or wine songs, that I quote in the book.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“In a perfect world, I would do 3 weeks on 3 weeks off; so that I could always take a breather and come back to music with a fresh mind.”

Source : Source: www.roomthirteen.com

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