"Without a doubt the sense of beauty does not lie determined in the concreteness of an individual beautiful thing or person. Rather its purpose is much more the enchantment of the soul, for there is nothing physical that is not made with the intent of affecting the soul, and there is no soul that does not intend to dazzle everything physical with its sensations."

-- Alexander Lernet-Holenia

#Beautiful Quotes #Lying Quotes #Soul Quotes

“Practically every movie that shows the pope or even a bishop as a character, and in much of western literature of the last 300 or 400 years, these are portrayed as awful figures.”
“To serve God, to love God, to enjoy God, is the sweetest freedom in the world.”
“The worst thing in the world is having to go back to the dark you shook off.”
“I don't think any religion makes any sense and I think people who are into that are really getting duped, and I don't think Judaism makes any more sense than Christianity, and I don't think Christianity makes any more sense than Scientology. But here's a guy, L. Ron Hubbard, who told all his friends, 'Look, I'm gonna start a religion, 'cause I can't make any money as a science fiction writer.' I mean, he admitted that publicly! At least with Jesus Christ, you can't go talk to the guy.”
“Today's 'best practices' lead to dead ends; the best paths are new and untried.”

Source : Peter Thiel, Blake Masters (2014). “Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future”, p.4, Crown Business
“The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.”
“Food is a profound subject and one, incidentally, about which no writer lies.”
“Anyone can post messages to the net. Practically everyone does. The resulting cacophony drowns out serious discussion.”

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