#ible

Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

#beauty #devil #fighting #god #heart

Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

#anxiety #constant #find #free #long

Mormons... are so strong, they can handle wealth, they are confident. I think it is because they are not bogged down by rules for equality, but have a firmly defined system of relative status and responsible command. ↗

— Mary Douglas

#bogged #command #confident #defined #down

Today's Communism can survive only if it abandons the myth of an infallible party, if it continues to think, and if it becomes democratic. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

#communism #continues #democratic #infallible #myth

There is nothing about which I am more anxious than my country, and for its sake I am willing to die ten deaths, if that be possible. ↗

— Elizabeth I

#am #anxious #country #deaths #die

For since it is impossible for a created monad to have a physical influence on the inner nature of another, this is the only way in which one can be dependent on another. ↗

— Gottfried Leibniz

#created #dependent #impossible #influence #inner

A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go. ↗

— Max Eastman

#go #goal #him #joke #just

I've got this horrible feeling that I'm one of those people who'll always have to flog their guts out to get anywhere. ↗

— Jenny Eclair

#anywhere #feeling #get #got #guts

I think most people are more susceptible to prejudice than to reason. ↗

— Roger Ebert

#i think #more #most #people #prejudice

In those days a concert was a personal experience. I wanted to be as close as possible to the audience, and of course big stadiums didn't enable you to do that. It wasn't my style. ↗

— Cat Stevens

#big #close #concert #course #days