#cult

What is going on in America is extreme. The youth cult, they worship youth so much it's almost paranoid. And LA is the Mecca of it all; they're taking it to the hilt. ↗

— Billie Joe Armstrong

#america #cult #extreme #going #hilt

In the past some of the most influential Jewish, Christian and Muslim theologians, such as Maimonides, Aquinas and Ibn Sina, made it clear that it was very difficult to speak about God, because when we confront the ultimate, we are at the end of what words or thoughts can do. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#because #christian #clear #confront #difficult

Today mythical thinking has fallen into disrepute; we often dismiss it as irrational and self-indulgent. But the imagination is also the faculty that has enabled scientists to bring new knowledge to light and to invent technology that has made us immeasurably more effective. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#bring #dismiss #effective #enabled #faculty

The arts, as a reflection of human existence at its highest, have always and spontaneously lived up to this demand of plenitude. No mature style of art in any culture has ever been simple. ↗

— Rudolf Arnheim

#any #art #arts #been #culture

People that go through what I went through and people going through divorce, it's really a difficulty process; it's heartbreaking and it hurts really bad. It can really mess with your head. ↗

— David Arquette

#difficulty #divorce #go #going #head

They must therefore not spoil Alexander's undertaking, especially when they were almost at the close of their toils, and were, moreover, no longer in any difficulty about provisions on their coasting cruise. ↗

— Arrian

#alexander #almost #any #close #cruise

Don't tire yourself more than need be, even at the price of founding a culture on the fatigue of your bones. ↗

— Antonin Artaud

#culture #even #fatigue #founding #more

Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of your bones. ↗

— Antonin Artaud

#culture #even #fatigue #found #more

Not so much in Canada, but certainly in the US, as I'm sure you know, money is all, and if they can get another 26 programs of the same thing even though it advances the culture or those actor's careers not at all it doesn't matter. ↗

— Rowan Atkinson

#advances #another #canada #careers #certainly

Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases. ↗

— Norman Ralph Augustine

#difficult #entropy #grasp #i #increases