#ma

These days, there are a great many books about childhood trauma and its effects, but at the time all the experts agreed that one should forget about it as quickly as possible and pick up where you left off. ↗

— Peter Straub

#agreed #books #childhood #days #effects

If God and man are in themselves one, and if religion is the human side of this unity then must this unity be made evident to man in religion, and become in him consciousness and reality. ↗

— David Friedrich Strauss

#consciousness #evident #god #him #human

The supernatural birth of Christ, his miracles, his resurrection and ascension, remain eternal truths, whatever doubts may be cast on their reality as historical facts. ↗

— David Friedrich Strauss

#birth #cast #christ #doubts #eternal

The world ultimately is what we say it is. ↗

— David Friedrich Strauss

#ultimately #world

Objects are what matter. Only they carry the evidence that throughout the centuries something really happened among human beings. ↗

— Levi Strauss

#beings #carry #centuries #evidence #happened

Les coutures, les modes sont souvent apliquées à couper les corps féminin de a transcendance: la Chinoise aux pieds bandés peut à peine marcher, les griffes vernies de la star d'Hollywood la privent de ses mains, les hauts talons, les corsets, les paniers, les vertugadins, les crinolines étaient destinés moins à accentuer la combrure du corps féminin qu'à en augmenter l'impotence. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#objectification-of-women #beauty

Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time. ↗

— Igor Stravinsky

#coordination #establishing #given #including #man

I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust. ↗

— Igor Stravinsky

#exhaust #genius #human #i #know

I couldn't care less about fashion. If I had taken any clothes home, they would have remained in my closet for the rest of their existence. ↗

— Meryl Streep

#any #care #closet #clothes #existence

Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn. ↗