#pro

An enlightened trust in the sovereignty of human reason can be every bit as magical as the exploits of Merlin, and a faith in our capacity for limitless self-improvement just as much a wide-eyed superstition as a faith in leprechauns. ↗

— Terry Eagleton

#rationalism #scientism #faith

In Shakespearean tragedy the main source of the convulsion which produces suffering and death is never good: good contributes to this convulsion only from its tragic implication with its opposite in one and the same character. ↗

— Andrew Coyle Bradley

#contributes #convulsion #death #good #implication

I procrastinate so much and I get distracted by anything. ↗

— Zach Braff

#distracted #get #i #much #procrastinate

That's gotta be one of the principles behind reality. Accepting things that are hard to comprehend, and leaving them that way. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#thoughts-on-life #life

God thundered again and again through the prophets that worship in the context of mistreatment of the poor and disadvantaged is an outrage. ↗

— Ronald J. Sider

#christianity #god #outrage #poor #prophets

Maybe you don't just have one Goliath. Maybe you have his whole family! ↗

— Joyce Meyer

#family

The love of money is the root of all evil, therefore selfishness must be the seed. ↗

— M.D. Birmingham

#family #handicapped #health-and-fitness #inspirational #mind

I am going to work with Tom Daschle. And I'll work with the Republican leaders and the president to try and come up with something that we can all be proud of. ↗

— John Breaux

#come #daschle #going #i #i am

I am a philanthropist. I hand my clothes down to customers at half the price they would get them from their families. Even with all the discounts I give, my non-profit chain is highly lucrative. ↗

— Bauvard

#fashion #funny #humor #non-profit #philanthropy

Bleeding ulcers run in my family, we give them to each other. ↗

— Lois McMaster Bujold

#dysfunctional-families #dysfunctional-family #family #problems #family