#mate

Healthy people are those who live in healthy homes on a healthy diet; in an environment equally fit for birth, growth work, healing, and dying... Healthy people need no bureaucratic interference to mate, give birth, share the human condition and die. ↗

— Ivan Illich

#birth #bureaucratic #condition #die #diet

Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

#cost #crammed #easily #fairly #few

The ultimate purpose of religious life is to make this evolution move in a direction far more important to the destiny of the ego than the moral health of the social fabric which forms his present environment. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

#direction #ego #environment #evolution #fabric

Conduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

#based #cannot #conduct #decision #fate

In the first period religious life appears as a form of discipline which the individual or a whole people must accept as an unconditional command without any rational understanding of the ultimate meaning and purpose of that command. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

#any #appears #command #discipline #first

Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

#even #foundation #function #greater #indeed

I told you. You don't love someone because of their looks or their clothes or their car. You love them because they sing a song only your heart can understand. ↗

— L.J. Smith

#james #love #nightworld #soulmate #love

There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence. ↗

— Henry Adams

#average intelligence #intelligence #such #thing #underestimate

I think, ultimately, looking back now, acting wasn't satisfying me 100%. ↗

— Joey Lauren Adams

#back #i #i think #looking #looking back

You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public. ↗

— Scott Adams

#general public #never #never underestimate #public #stupidity