"One other fact is significant: the domestic feasts and sacrifices of single families, which in David's time must still have been general, gradually declined and lost their importance as social circles widened and life became more public."

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Source : Julius Wellhausen (2013). “Prolegomena to the History of Israel: With a Reprint of the Article 'Israel' from the Encyclopaedia Britannica”, p.20, Cambridge University Press

Julius Wellhausen

#Sacrifice Quotes #Circles Quotes #Single Life Quotes

“A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.”
“We establish a connection with the unknown through the act of giving something and, paradoxically, the act of destroying something. That is what is behind sacrifice. What you offer and what you destroy, it is that surplus which is life itself.”

Source : "Roberto Calasso speaks on 'The Last Superstition'". The Paris Review interview, bookhaven.stanford.edu.
“Sky is the part of creation in which Nature has done more for the sake of pleasing man, more for the sole and evident purpose of talking to him and teaching him, than in any other of her works, and it is just the part in which we least attend to her.”
“Our neighbors in Virginia are just as responsible for these killings as the criminals are because they won't pass strong gun [control] legislation.”
“I wanted to convey the message to children that this life is worth living,”
“I am they type of person that once I make a decision, I must execute. Maybe I am a perfectionist in this way.”
“Another writer asserts that the tyranny of man over woman has its roots, after all, in his nobler feelings; his love, his chivalry, and his desire to protect woman in the barbarous periods of pillage, lust, and war. But wherever the roots may be traced, the results at this hour are equally disastrous to woman. Her best interests and happiness do not seem to have been consulted in the arrangements made for her protection. She has been bought and sold, caressed and crucified at the will and pleasure of her master.”
“Christ does not fulfill the human element, but he certainly fulfills every other need in your life. As far as I'm concerned, there's no better love affair.”

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