What gave you this idea of an imperfect god?'
'I don't know. It seems quite feasible to me. That is the only god I could imagine believing in, a god whose passion is not a redemption, who saves nothing, fulfills no purpose--a god who simply is.
Tags: existence purpose humanity belief god religion mankind existentialism theology imperfection no-purpose
We do not have to be ashamed of what we are. As sentient beings we have wonderful backgrounds. These backgrounds may not be particularly enlightened or peaceful or intelligent. Nevertheless, we have soil good enough to cultivate; we can plant anything in it.
Chögyam TrungpaTags: life truth progress acceptance humanity confidence mankind shame humans pride enlightenment cultivation development heritage original-sin origins background sentient-beings
If you are involved with the intensity of crescendo situations, with the intensity of tragedy, you might begin to see the humor of these situations as well. As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the music.
Chögyam TrungpaTags: humor life truth acceptance music buddhism humanity silence mankind tragedy enlightenment crescendo silent-music silence-in-music
Ah! how little knowledge does a man acquire in his life. He gathers it up like water, but like water it runs between his fingers, and yet, if his hands be but wet as though with dew, behold a generation of fools call out, 'See, he is a wise man!' Is it not so?
H. Rider HaggardTags: wisdom intelligence knowledge learning humanity stupidity mankind arrogance futility foolishness
Time after time have nations, ay, and rich and strong nations, learned in the arts, been, and passed away to be forgotten, so that no memory of them remains. This is but one of several; for Time eats up the works of man.
H. Rider HaggardTags: knowledge learning man time mankind futility materialism nations inevitability passing-of-time everything-is-meaningless fallen-nations
We run to place and power over the dead bodies of those who fail and fall; ay, we win the food we eat from out the mouths of starving babes.
H. Rider HaggardTags: humanity society mankind sin balance triumph survival crime good-and-evil cost price give-and-take
And what, O Queen, are those things that are dear to a man? Are they not bubbles? Is not ambition but an endless ladder by which no height is ever climbed till the last unreachable rung is mounted? For height leads on to height, and there is not resting-place among them, and rung doth grow upon rung, and there is no limit to the number.
H. Rider HaggardTags: life learning humanity ambition mankind greed materialism want ladder things-that-matter endeavors
Strange are the pictures of the future that mankind can thus draw with this brush of faith and these many-coloured pigments of the imagination! Strange, too, that no one of them tallies with another!
H. Rider HaggardTags: imagination illusions future belief dreams religion faith mankind ignorance disagreement hopes vain-hopes
Can anything be imagined so ridiculous, that this miserable and wretched creature [man], who is not so much as master of himself, but subject to the injuries of all things, should call himself master and emperor of the world, of which he has not power to know the least part, much less to command the whole?
Michel de MontaigneTags: perspective world mankind hubris mastery dominion
He had been dazzled. Because of the dazzling brightness, he had had to kill [Seigen]. All who had encountered Seigen had had their hearts stolen by that brightness. That envy had turned to malice.
Takayuki YamaguchiTags: inspiration murder heart jealousy human-nature mankind enemies admiration antipathy envy rivalry love-hate-relationship
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