"Americans ... do not naturally apply the term "bourgeois" to themselves, or to anyone else for that matter. They do like to call themselves middle class, but that does not carry with it any determinate spiritual content. ... The term "middle class" does not have any of the many opposites that bourgeois has, such as aristocrat, saint, hero, or artist all good."

-- Allan Bloom

#Spiritual Quotes #Hero Quotes #Artist Quotes

“We have no right to dictate, through irresponsible action or narrow-mindedness, the future of our children, and our children's children. There has been enough destruction, enough death, enough waste.”
“Iâ€™m suspicious of the notion of a single book that would benefit everyone to read.”
“Sometimes, because of its immediacy, television produces a kind of electronic parable. Berlin, for instance, on the day the Wall was opened. Rostropovich was playing his cello by the Wall that no longer cast a shadow, and a million East Berliners were thronging to the West to shop with an allowance given them by West German banks! At that moment the whole world saw how materialism had lost its awesome historic power and become a shopping list.”
“Like Gandhi, like the Buddha, like all great spiritual teachers, Easwaran had no use for beliefs unless they generated actions. Doing, not saying, is what counts.”
“I've spent the last year listening to Americans, and the state of the union that George W. Bush lives in is very different from the state that most hardworking Americans are living in.”
“If I were younger, I'd know more.”
“L'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle (The love that moves the sun and the other stars)”

Source : Divina Commedia "Paradiso" canto 33, l. 145 (ca. 1310 - 1321) (translation by John D. Sinclair)
“The good we get from art is not what we learn from it; it is what we become through it.”

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