#cult

The absence of symbols in our life debases it as much as any government can... ↗

— Joséphin Péladan

#symbols #life

Starting at life's cryptogram, we either see His name unmistakably resplendent or we see the confusion of religions with no single message, just garbled beliefs that plague our existence, each justified by the voice of culture. ↗

— Ravi Zacharias

#message #religions #life

Do not let your difficulties fill you with anxiety, after all it is only in the darkest nights that stars shine more brightly. ↗

— Ali Ibn Abi Talib AS

#brilliance #darkness #difficulties #life #life

The unfolding of a story is both as exciting and as difficult for each and every novel I've written, regardless of time and place. ↗

— Rose Tremain

#difficult #each #every #exciting #i

Show me a cultural relativist at 30,000 feet and I'll show you a hypocrite ... If you are flying to an international congress of anthropologists or literary critics, the reason you will probably get there - the reason you don't plummet into a ploughed field - is that a lot of Western scientifically trained engineers have got their sum right. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#life

I cry a lot, you know. Which is very difficult for a man to recognise, but I do. I cry in movies, you know, just watching movies. ↗

— Antonio Banderas

#difficult #i #i do #just #know

The most powerful force ever known on this planet is human cooperation — a force for construction and destruction. ↗

— Jonathan Haidt

#evolution #religion #religion

The difficulty is capturing surprise on film. ↗

— F. Murray Abraham

#difficulty #film #surprise

History is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books-books which glorify their own cause and disparage the conquered foe. As Napoleon once said, 'What is history, but a fable agreed upon? ↗

— Dan Brown

#culture

Making movies is difficult and you get disorientated sometimes - even when you're working with fantastic talent. ↗

— Antonio Banderas

#even #fantastic #get #making #movies