I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church.
All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.
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soles occidere et redire possunt:
nobis cum semel occidit breuis lux,
nox est perpetua una dormienda.
Tags: roman love-poetry
When he, whoever of the gods it was, had thus arranged in order and resolved that chaotic mass, and reduced it, thus resolved, to cosmic parts, he first moulded the Earth into the form of a mighty ball so that it might be of like form on every side … And, that no region might be without its own forms of animate life, the stars and divine forms occupied the floor of heaven, the sea fell to the shining fishes for their home, Earth received the beasts, and the mobile air the birds … Then Man was born:… though all other animals are prone, and fix their gaze upon the earth, he gave to Man an uplifted face and bade him stand erect and turn his eyes to heaven.
OvidTags: history literature myth creation mythology roman creation-myth
Paradoxul evident pe care îl prezintă psihologia poporului român, acest paradox subtil, aproape imposibil de intuit din afară, face din noi unul dintre cele mai necunoscute, sau mai prost cunoscute , popoare ale Europei. Românii sunt poporul cel mai supus, cel mai de nerăsculat, nu pentru că se lasă dominaţi de ideile celor ce îi stăpânesc, dimpotrivă, pentru că nici o ideologie nu-i seduce, nici chiar revolta, care-i întotdeauna o ideologie. Faţă de tot ce i se spune (şi cu cât se încăpăţinează mai mult), el păstrează o distanţă ironică, din ce în ce mai refractară. Această impertiabilitate funciară la entuziasm şi fanatism îl face în acelaşi timp şi de necucerit, şi de nerevoltat. Şi asta pentru că, pe de o parte, orice revoltă presupune un elan mai mult sau mai puţin entuziast, fanatic, iar românul nu este nu numai capabil de fanatism, ci, mai mult, fanatismul îl repugnă şi – mai mult chiar – i se pare ridicol şi îi trezeşte hazul; pe de altă parte, pentru că teroarea care pare, văzută din afară, insuportabilă, ricoşează de realitate pe suprafaţa alunecoasă a ironiei populare, nereuşind să pătrundă în interior, nereuşind să realizete o presiune interioară pe măsura grozăviei ei istorice. Deci, revolta nu se produce, pentru că nu are condiiţii subiective (predispoziţie psihologică, dar nici obiective (impactul real asupra indivizilor). Astfel se ajunge la paradoxala situaţie în care un popor, care nu poate fi manipulat, poate totuşi fi guvernat cu uşurinţă. Libertatea interioară se transformă în condiţie şi chiar în unealta a supunerii exterioare.
Blandiana AnaThe authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
Marcus Tullius CiceroTags: learning school study roman cicero
Hey, if you'd wanted to avoid 'this,' you shouldn't have lured me last night. Now it's too late. You might as well avoid the long, drawn-out pain and get it over with quickly. Sort of like taking off a Band-Aid. Or cutting off a limb."
"Wow, who says there's no romance left in the world?
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Cinta itu mensucikan akal, mengenyahkan kekhawatiran, memunculkan keberanian, mendorong berpenampilan rapi, membangkitkan selera makan, menjaga akhlak mulia, membangkitkan semangat, mengenakan wewangian, memperhatikan pergaulan yang baik, serta menjaga adab dan kepribadian. Tapi cinta juga merupakan ujian bagi orang-orang yang shaleh dan cobaan bagi ahli ibadah.
ابن قيم الجوزيةTags: roman
After the Egyptian and Indian, the Greek and Roman, the Teuton and Mongolian, the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second-sight in this American world,—a world which yields him no true self-consciousness, but only lets him see himself through the revelation of the other world. It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others, of measuring one by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity. One ever feels his two-ness,—an American, a Negro... two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife, — this longing to attain self-conscious manhood, to merge his double self into a better and truer self.
Tags: greek egyptian american pity roman indian mongolian seventh-son teuton
There are twin Gates of Sleep. One, they say, is called the Gate of Horn and it offers easy passage to all true shades. The other glistens with ivory, radiant, flawless, but through it the dead send false dreams up toward the sky. And here Anchises, his vision told in full, escorts his son and Sibyl both and shows them out now through the Ivory Gate.
VirgilWomen writers make for rewarding (and efficient) lovers. They are clever liars to fathers and husbands; yet they never hold their tongues too long, nor keep ardent typing fingers still.
Roman PayneTags: writing sex relationships lying liars husbands fathers lovers roman affairs relations roman-payne women-writers
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