"When people want to be rid of Heaven it is logical to start by creating an atmosphere in which spiritual things appear out of place; in order to be able to declare successfully that God is unreal they have to construct around man a false reality, a reality that is inevitably inhuman because only the inhuman can exclude God. What is involved is a falsification of the imagination and so its destruction."

-- Frithjof Schuon

#Spiritual Quotes #Reality Quotes #Men Quotes

“I think it's relatively easy for people to accept something like telepathy or precognition or teleplasm because their willingness to believe doesn't cost them anything. It doesn't keep them awake nights. But the idea that the evil that men do lives after them is unsettling.”
“Imagine! People are not volunteering to go to foreign countries and die the way they used to! Imagine that!”
“I move countries every three or four years. I was born in London, and we lived in Canada. Then we lived in Saudi Arabia until the Gulf War broke out, when we were forced to leave. Then we hop-scotched for a while from Holland back to Canada back to Saudi Arabia. Then there was D-day, so we had to get out again.”

Source : "Esquire Presents Me in My Place with Hannah Simone". www.esquire.com. April 22, 2012.
“A man rarely knows the day and hour when he will die. I could be killed any moment and there's not a blasted thing I can do about it.”
“Two million dollars is only small when you're talking about Washington, D.C.”
“Tomorrow, you're always a day away.”

Source : "Tomorrow" (song) (1977)
“Because the chief commodity a writer has to sell is his courage. And if he has none, he is more than a coward. He is a sellout and a fink and a heretic, because writing is a holy chore.”
“Designing bridal is perfect for me, because black is my least favorite color, if you could call it a color.”

Source : "Face Time | Lela Rose". Interview with Tina Turnbow, tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com. May 31, 2011.

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