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Stonehenge was built possibly by the Minoans. It presents one of man's first attempts to order his view of the outside world. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

#attempts #built #first #his #man

The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

#delicacy #detail #english #great #light

If he is infinitely good, what reason should we have to fear him? If he is infinitely wise, why should we have doubts concerning our future? If he knows all, why warn him of our needs and fatigue him with our prayers? If he is everywhere, why erect temples to him? If he is just, why fear that he will punish the creatures that he has filled with weaknesses? If grace does everything for them, what reason would he have for recompensing them? If he is all-powerful, how offend him, how resist him? If he is reasonable, how can he be angry at the blind, to whom he has given the liberty of being unreasonable? If he is immovable, by what right do we pretend to make him change his decrees? If he is inconceivable, why occupy ourselves with him? IF HE HAS SPOKEN, WHY IS THE UNIVERSE NOT CONVINCED? ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

#evidence #infallibility #change

I think the main reason my marriages failed is that I always loved too well but never wisely. ↗

— Ava Gardner

#failed #i #i always #i think #loved

Because I was promoted as a sort of a siren and played all those sexy broads, people made the mistake of thinking I was like that off the screen. They couldn't have been more wrong. ↗

— Ava Gardner

#been #broads #i #like #made

I think too much. Being in my body is much more satisfying than being in my head. ↗

— Andrew Garfield

#body #head #i #i think #more

The application of this knife, the division of the world into parts and the building of this structure, is something everybody does. All the time we are aware of millions of things around us - these changing shapes, these burning hills, the sound of the engine, the feel of the throttle, each rock and weed and fence post and piece of debris beside the road - aware of these things but not really conscious of them unless there is something unusual or unless they reflect something we are predisposed to see. We could not possibly be conscious of these things and remember all of them because our mind would be so full of useless details we would be unable to think. From all this awareness we must select, and what we select and calls consciousness is never the same as the awareness because the process of selection mutates it. We take a handful of sand from the endless landscape of awareness around us and call that handful of sand the world." -Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance ↗

— Robert M. Pirsig

#buddhism #philosophy #psychology #art

I've realised that at the top of the mountain, there's another mountain. ↗

— Andrew Garfield

#i #mountain #realised #top

I'm the kind of person who can hear that stuff. If you sing along to the radio and you're not going to sing unison with the melody, but find the harmony, I find that pretty easy to do. ↗

— Art Garfunkel

#easy #find #going #harmony #hear

Ah, no, far be from me a thought which I loathe like poison. ↗

— Giuseppe Garibaldi

#far #i #like #loathe #me