#illuminati

There is a theory going around that the U.S.A. was and still is a gigantic Masonic plot under the ultimate control of the group known as the Illuminati. It is difficult to look for long at the strange single eye crowning the pyramid which is found on every dollar bill and not begin to believe the story, a little. Too many anarchists in 19th-century Europe—Bakunin, Proudhon, Salverio Friscia—were Masons for it to be pure chance. Lovers of global conspiracy, not all of them Catholic, can count on the Masons for a few good shivers and voids when all else fails. ↗

— Thomas Pynchon

#conspiracy #freemasonry #illuminati #anarchism

Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness. ↗

— Anne Frank

#darkness #illumination #dark

The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination. ↗

— Elizabeth Hardwick

#consoles #distracts #excites #experience #gift

I don't see it as a form of healing, because if you have wounds that are bleeding I don't think acting will ever get them to stop. But I find acting is a form of illumination. ↗

— Rebecca De Mornay

#because #bleeding #ever #find #form

He uses statistics like a drunk uses lamp-posts, more for support than illumination. ↗

— Romano Prodi

#illumination #like #more #statistics #support

We're merely one tree with various types, shapes and sizes of leaves that all wave differently in the breeze ↗

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

#co-operation #compassion #illumination #inspiring-quotes #kindness

Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination. ↗

— Vin Scully

#illumination #like #much #statistics #support

History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul. ↗

— Lord Acton

#history #illumination #memory #soul

A memoir should have some uplifting quality, inspiring or illuminating, and that's what separates a life story that can influence other people. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#influence #inspiring #life #life story #memoir

An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination. ↗

— Andrew Lang

#illumination #man #rather #statistics #support