"My point, once again, is not that those ancient people told literal stories and we are now smart enough to take them symbolically, but that they told them symbolically and we are now dumb enough to take them literally."

-- John Dominic Crossan

#Smart Quotes #People Quotes #Dumb Quotes

“The soul of music slumbers in the shell Till waked and kindled by the master's spell; And feeling hearts, touch them but rightly, pour A thousand melodies unheard before!”

Source : Samuel Rogers (1839). “Poems ...”, p.13
“It was like the first time I'd ever seen Hollywood just really not do the right thing. We filmed Free Willy in Mexico. I'd come in a really nice car from my hotel, and we'd have to drive around all the crew that was sleeping in the parking lot. People making their breakfast on the ground. It was because there was a whale there that was in a little tank. It just felt gross. It felt really bad. They didn't free that whale for, damn... at least 10 years later. The poor whale had horrible psoriasis all over him, and his fin didn't work.”
“Ignorance deprives people of freedom because they do not know what alternatives there are. It is impossible to choose to do what one has never "heard of."”

Source : Ralph Barton Perry (1951). “The Citizen Decides: A Guide to Responsible Thinking in Time of Crisis”
“Great is the victory, but the friendship of all is greater.”
“I travel a lot, and I hunt for fabrics, then I have the tailor make me something.”
“These were everyday sounds magnified by darkness. And darkness was nothing - it was not a substance, it was not a presence, it was no more than an absence of light.”
“The attorney general could push and the president Donald Trump could push governors and state attorney generals to move forward with hate crimes laws all over America to protect the Jewish community and other marginalized groups.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.”

Source : Robert South (1727). “Twelve Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions”, p.140

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