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You westerners are the ones we can't understand. God has given you so much, you have been so blessed…why are so many people in your country so unhappy?
- Joni Eareckson Tada
By failing to read or listen to poets, society dooms itself to inferior modes of articulation, those of the politician, the salesman or the charlatan.
- Joseph Brodsky
Our own poor poets, I am afraid, have been so intimidated by our clinics and laboratories that they have abandoned the first principles of beginning, that of the festival; and the heart of the festival has always been the atmosphere of myth, of delight.
- Joseph Campbell
Myth is much more important and true than history.
- Joseph Campbell
The symbols of mythology are not manufactured; they cannot be ordered, invented, or permanently suppressed. They are spontaneous productions of the psyche.
- Joseph Campbell
Mythology -and therefore civilization- is a poetic, supernormal image, conceived, like all poetry, in depth, but susceptible of interpretation on various levels.
- Joseph Campbell
Het modernisme rust niet voordat het van de vrouw een man en van de man een vrouw heeft gemaakt, en, alle onderscheid nivellerend, het leven doodt door het onder de ban van de eenvormigheid te leggen.
- Abraham Kuyper
The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
- Abraham Lincoln
The environment that we call society is created by past generations; we accept it, as it helps us to maintain our greed, possessiveness, illusion.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
People love to talk about the things that are important to them, but oftentimes as a journalist, if you're entering a world that's pretty esoteric and difficult to penetrate and has many barriers to outsiders, then the people inside that world just don't have the same language as you do.
- Lawrence Wright
I don't think anyone could write about another culture and get it 100 percent accurate.
- Elizabeth George
If I could have lived as an actress in any period, it would have been the 1920s - I would have loved to have been part of that speakeasy era.
- Lauren Bacall