#na

The great achievement of the Catholic Church lay in harmonizing, civilizing the deepest impulses of ordinary, ignorant people. ↗

— Kenneth Clark

#catholic #catholic church #church #civilizing #deepest

How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean. ↗

— Arthur C. Clarke

#clearly #earth #how #inappropriate #ocean

Is it possible that the portrait of the divine Son of God is an exaggeration, at best, or a complete fabrication, at worst, of the original Jesus? ↗

— John Clayton

#complete #divine #exaggeration #fabrication #god

Why is it any more reasonable to believe that God has always been than it is to say that matter has always been? ↗

— John Clayton

#any #been #believe #god #matter

The Labour Party has become consumed by collective bile towards... the Liberal Democrats. That portrays a rather nasty arrogance. ↗

— Nick Clegg

#become #collective #consumed #democrats #labour

John Kerry's service did not end in Vietnam. It began there. ↗

— Max Cleland

#did #end #john #kerry #service

Journalists belong in the gutter because that is where the ruling classes throw their guilty secrets. ↗

— Gerald Priestland

#belong #classes #guilty #gutter #journalists

...the human soul is a divine non-substance. A spirit that permeates our flesh, dwells in our conscious, and rules our subconscious self. It makes us cling to life even when we no longer want to embrace it. It makes us hope in the most desperate of circumstances. It gives our dream shape, our inspiration form, our love its timeless beauty." From The Cartesian Machine ↗

— Nick Tran

#beauty

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is. ↗

— Noel Coward

#extraordinary #how #music #potent

As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow. ↗

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#always #artist #authentic #bad #decent