#iri

I suppose if you look back to your early childhood you accept everything people tell you, and that includes a heavy dose of irrationality - you're told about tooth fairies and Father Christmas and things. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#accept #back #childhood #christmas #dose

Every society rests in the last resort on the recognition of common principles and common ideals, and if it makes no moral or spiritual appeal to the loyalty of its members, it must inevitably fall to pieces. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

#common #every #fall #ideals #inevitably

The sublimated idealism of the Enlightenment, the spirit of the League of Nations and of the United Nations Charter have not proved strong enough to control the aggressive dynamism of nationalism. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

#charter #control #dynamism #enlightenment #enough

He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it. ↗

— Voltaire

#misery #spirit #who

By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich. ↗

— Democritus

#himself #little #makes #man #poor

We can hear the silent voice of the spiritual universe within our own hearts. ↗

— Ruth St. Denis

#hearts #our #own #silent #spiritual

I'm not an admirer of action movies. I just think, Oh my God, it must be so tiring. ↗

— Catherine Deneuve

#action movies #admirer #god #i #just

I find the idea of today's icons being teenagers incredibly uninspiring. ↗

— Kathleen Turner

#find #i #icons #idea #incredibly

Writing, painting, singing- it cannot stop everything. Cannot halt death in its tracks. But perhaps it can make the pause between death’s footsteps sound and look and feel beautiful, can make the space of waiting a place where you can linger without as much fear. For we are all walking each other to our deaths, and the journey there between footsteps makes up our lives. ↗

— Ally Condie

#inspiring #painting #singing #writing #beauty

I come from a long line of staunch Irish Catholics. ↗

— Robert Vaughn

#come #i #irish #line #long