"For those to whom a stone reveals itself as sacred, its immediate reality is transmuted into supernatural reality. In other words, for those who have a religious experience all nature is capable of revealing itself as cosmic sacrality."

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Source : Mircea Eliade (1959). “The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion”, p.12, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Mircea Eliade

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“What is the life of a man more than the life of a lamb, or any guiltless animal?”

Source : James Hogg, James Thomson, Margaret Oliphant (2014). “Scottish Gothic: The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, The City of Dreadful Night, A Beleaguered City”, p.108, Palimpsest Book Production Limited
“Like many works of literature, Hollywood chooses for its villains people who strive for social dominance through the pursuit of wealth, prestige, and power. But the ordinary business of capitalism is much more egalitarian: It's about finding meaning and enjoyment in work and production.”

Source : "Capitalism: Hollywood's Miscast Villain". www.wsj.com. June 04, 2010.
“People, in whatever walk of life, would be surprised if they just gave themselves a chance by believing in what they are.”
“People often ask, "What is the single most important environmental population problem facing the world today?" A flip answer would be, "The single most important problem is our misguided focus on identifying the single most important problem!”

Source : Jared Diamond (2011). “Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed: Revised Edition”, p.457, Penguin
“I never trust the airlines from those countries where the pilots believe in the afterlife. You are safer when they don't.”

Source : Muriel Spark (1994). “The Driver's Seat”, p.68, New Directions Publishing
“I'm a New Yorker. I don't believe in air unless I can see it.”
“Lifeâ€™s better with company.Â Everybody needs a co-pilot.”
“It sucks the way the world works. You can do a hundred things for people, but you do one bad mistake and everyone crucifies you and that's all they want to remember.”

Source : "Arenas opens up after lengthy hiatus from league, media". Interview with Sam Amick, www.si.com. February 20, 2012.

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