"In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge."

-- Aristotle

#True Friend Quotes #True Life Quotes #Poverty Quotes

“In every heart there is an inner room, where we can hold our greatest treasures and our deepest pain.”
“I learned to win by learning to lose- that means not being afraid of losing.”
“It is only in times of social dissolution, as in the last age of the small Semitic states, when men and their gods were alike powerless before the advance of the Assyrians, that magical superstitions based on mere terror, or rites designed to conciliate alien gods, invade the sphere of tribal or national religion. In better times the religion of the tribe or state has nothing in common with the private and foreign superstitions or magical rites that savage terror may dictate to the individual.”

Source : William Robertson Smith (1889). “Lectures on the Religion of the Semites: First Series. The Fundamental Institutions”
“Oh the Christian church has encouraged enormous immaturity among the peoples who are its primary adherence.”
“Friendship, love, and piety ought to be handled with a sort of mysterious secrecy; they ought to be spoken of only in the rare moments of perfect confidence, to be mutually understood in silence. Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.”
“I've been listening to a lot of Hollies stuff lately, and it's beginning to sound pretty good to me.”

Source : "Jared Swilley of Black Lips". Interview with AVC, music.avclub.com. May 1, 2009.
“I love you,â€ he said fiercely. â€œ â€™Tis not true that I kept a part of my heart locked away from you. You own all of it, lass. Youâ€™ve always owned it. I didnâ€™t give it to you. You took it from the very start.”
“Hermeneutics is a way of looking at Being as an inheritance that is never considered as ultimate data. Capitalism has always grown by considering, or forcing another to consider, as a 'natural' possession what is inherited. The great dominating families are really the inheritors of the strongest pirates, thieves, and bandits, and they consider themselves entitled to command through a divine or natural law, when they really are only the result of a forgotten 'violence'.”

Source : Gianni Vattimo, Santiago Zabala (2014). “Hermeneutic Communism: From Heidegger to Marx”, p.93, Columbia University Press

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