To seek God by rituals is to get the ritual and lose God in the process, for he hides behind it. —Meister Eckhart More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters. —Thomas H. Huxley More about this quote Tags: opinions Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I believe that we often disguise pain through ritual and it may be the only solace we have. —Rita Mae Brown More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is much easier to break the rules when one s surrounded by strangers. One does not know any of them, so one cannot really care for their opinion. —Senator Patrick Leahy More about this quote Tags: opinions Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Without an understanding of myth or religion, without an understanding of the relationship between destruction and creation, death and rebirth, the individual suffers the mysteries of life as meaningless mayhem alone. —Marion Woodman More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Sane and intelligent human beings are like all other human beings, and carefully and cautiously and diligently conceal their private real opinions from the world and give out fictitious ones in their stead for general consumption. —Plato More about this quote Tags: opinions Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
He had the uneasy manner of a man who is not among his own kind, and who has not seen enough of the world to feel that all people are in some sense his own kind. —Willa Cather More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else. —Mark Twain More about this quote Tags: opinions Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Why are so many Americans so unhappy . . . ? All manner of plausible causes present themselves, but the master cause may be the most elemental: Homo sapiens, a familial animal like the wolf or hyena rather than solitary like the bear, is genetically unequipped to live without the emotional support of uncles, aunts, first cousins, and second cousins, in addition to siblings, parents, and children. . . . Periodic gatherings for the ceremonies of birth, marriage, and death; the much more frequent celebration of birthdays, name days, anniversaries, and seasonal feasts; as well as webs of less-formal socializing, all serve to keep the machinery of human families in working order. That is how people live all over the world in village, town, or city — but not in contemporary America. —Edward N. Luttwak More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The dying process begins the minute we are born, but it accelerates during dinner parties. —Carol Matthau More about this quote Tags: death dinner parties Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts. —Mark Twain More about this quote Tags: opinions Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth. —Lawana Blackwell More about this quote Tags: opinions Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinions in good men is but knowledge in the making. —Katherine Mansfield More about this quote Tags: opinions Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
This imputation of inconsistency is one to which every sound politician and every honest thinker must sooner or later subject himself. The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion. —John Milton More about this quote Tags: opinions Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I have opinions of my own -- strong opinions -- but I don't always agree with them. —George Bush More about this quote Tags: opinions Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email