"If the body had been easier to understand, nobody would have thought that we had a mind."

-- Richard Rorty

#Mind Quotes #Body Quotes #Easier Quotes

“And as we stray further from love, we multiply the words. Had we remained together we could have become a silence.”

Source : Yehuda Amichai (1992). “Poems of Jerusalem ; And, Love Poems: A Bilingual Edition”
“Anne Baxter was a very good actress, Donna Reid was great. You couldn't name an actress I wasn't crazy about.”
“What is preaching? Logic on fire! Preaching is theology coming through a man who is on fire. A true understanding and experience of the Truth must lead to this. I say again that a man who can speak about these things dispassionately has no right whatsoever to be in a pulpit; and should never be allowed to enter one.”

Source : Martyn Lloyd-Jones (2012). “Preaching and Preachers”, p.53, Hachette UK
“It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.”
“I'm not a sun person.”
“Social solidarity must rest (instead) on the sole secure basis it can have: direct responsibility of people for one another. Such responsibility can be realized through the principle that every able-bodied adult holds a position within a caring economy - the part of the economy in which people care for one another - as well as within the production system”
“People are tired of the humiliation that they don't want to be perceived as weak within the international community. And they are, therefore, actually quite grateful to President Putin for reinstating some sense of national pride.”
“Young man, two are the forces most precious to mankind. The first is Demeter, the Goddess. She is the Earth -- or any name you wish to call her -- and she sustains humanity with solid food. Next came Dionysus, the son of the virgin, bringing the counterpart to bread: wine and the blessings of life's flowing juices. His blood, the blood of the grape, lightens the burden of our mortal misery. Though himself a God, it is his blood we pour out to offer thanks to the Gods. And through him, we are blessed.”

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