"To romanticize the world is to make us aware of the magic, mystery and wonder of the world; it is to educate the senses to see the ordinary as extraordinary, the familiar as strange, the mundane as sacred, the finite as infinite."

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Source : "Bildung in Early German Romanticism" by Frederick C. Beiser. "Philosophers on Education: New Historical Perspectives". Book edited by Amélie Rorty, p. 294, 1998.

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“Christianity is NOT a religion; it is the proclamation of the end of religion. Religion is a human activity dedicated to the job of reconciling God to humanity and humanity to itself. The Gospel, however - the Good News of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, is the astonishing announcement that God has done the whole work of reconciliation without a scrap of human assistance. It is the bizarre proclamation that religion is over - period.”
“Learn, compare, collect the facts!”
“One song will launch you, but you don't want to be a one-song artist”
“You cannot further the Brotherhood of Man by encouraging class hatred.”
“Most New Zealanders want to travel overseas. We're a great travelling nation. It's hard to imagine simply not moving from here, especially as time went on and became cheaper and easier. When I first travelled it was four and a half weeks by sea each way.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“All my life Iâ€™ve pursued the perfect red. I can never get painters to mix it for me. Itâ€™s exactly as if Iâ€™d said, â€˜I want rococo with a spot of Gothic in it and a bit of Buddhist templeâ€™â€”they have no idea what Iâ€™m talking about. About the best red is to copy the color of a childâ€™s cap in any Renaissance portrait.”
“The greatest blessing in the whole world is being a blessing.”
“Economic theology is the opiate of the middle classes.”

Source : Thurman Wesley Arnold (1950). “The Folklore of Capitalism”, p.16, Transaction Publishers

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