#sm

With or without God, good decisions can be made; But only with God will great decisions be made. ↗

— Damon Thueson

#god #good #religion #smart #religion

In Romanticism, the main determinant is the mood, the atmosphere. And in that regard, you could also describe Schubert as a Romantic. ↗

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

#atmosphere #could #describe #main #mood

Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism. ↗

— Howard Dietz

#composers #interferes #much #plagiarism #their

Materialism, attachment to things of the world, includes pride. Many religious people suffer from pride: taking pleasure or even delight in being good, or religious. ↗

— Idries Shah

#materialism #pleasure #pride #religion #sufi

No; small timers get into it, and ruin it for everyone. ↗

— John Dillinger

#get #into #ruin #small

When women understand that governments and religions are human inventions; that Bibles, prayer-books, catechisms, and encyclical letters are all emanations from the brains of man, they will no longer be oppressed by the injunctions that come to them with the divine authority of *Thus sayeth the Lord.* ↗

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#feminism #politics #religion

I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world. ↗

— Diogenes

#am #citizen #greek #i #i am

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#every #genius #must #production

If I produce it, I will stage it as a performance. A small audience will be invited; rehearsals of the sections will be done in the mornings, and those sections will be recorded in the afternoons. ↗

— Bill Dixon

#done #i #invited #mornings #performance

I’ve often wondered why the Protestant Reformation took place in Germany, rather than in Poland. Then I realize that Luther had to nail his 95 theses to the church door, and the Poles didn’t know how to operate a hammer. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#church #germany #hammer #lutheran #martin-luther