#so

If a faithful account was rendered of Man’s ideas upon Divinity, he would be obliged to acknowledge, that for the most part the word “gods” has been used to express the concealed, remote, unknown causes of the effects he witnessed; that he applies this term when the spring of the natural, the source of known causes, ceases to be visible: as soon as he loses the thread of these causes, or as soon as his mind can no longer follow the chain, he solves the difficulty, terminates his research, by ascribing it to his gods  …   When, therefore, he ascribes to his gods the production of some phenomenon  …   does he, in fact, do any thing more than substitute for the darkness of his own mind, a sound to which he has been accustomed to listen with reverential awe? ↗

— Paul Henri Thiry d'Holbach

#divinity #gods #ignorance #knowledge #materialism

Overall relations between the North and the South have developed in favor of national reconciliation, unity and reunification. ↗

— Kim Jong Il

#developed #favor #national #north #overall

The public school has become the established church of secular society. ↗

— Ivan Illich

#church #established #public #public school #school

I wasn't born with a natural talent for songwriting. ↗

— Natalie Imbruglia

#i #natural #songwriting #talent

John Ventimiglia, who was on 'The Sopranos,' was in my first acting class and we have been friends since that time. Alec Baldwin was in my class back then, Sean Young and Andrew McCarthy. ↗

— Michael Imperioli

#acting class #alec #andrew #back #baldwin

When I write, the first blank page, or any blank page, means nothing to me. What means something is a page that has been filled with words. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#been #blank #blank page #filled #first

The soul is dyed with the color of its leisure thoughts. ↗

— Dean Inge

#dyed #leisure #soul #thoughts

It is the Band which unites the Interests of Individuals; it secures to them their respective Rights, and preserves them from Injuries; it is the Source of numberless Blessings, which are interrupted, or wholly vanish, the Moment it is disturbed. ↗

— Charles Inglis

#blessings #disturbed #individuals #injuries #interests

We know that Europe loves President Obama. He had adoring crowds. The press loves Obama. The question is how will this date end? Okay? The question is, to what end? Why do they love President Obama? They love his personal story, they love his wife. North Korea, China and Russia don't really care about Michelle's arms and, you know, whether they gave an iPod to the Queen, okay? ↗

— Laura Ingraham

#adoring #arms #care #china #crowds

If they're in cell block 1A or 1B, these prisoners - they're murderers, they're terrorists, they're insurgents. Many of them probably have American blood on their hands. And here we're so concerned about the treatment of those individuals. ↗

— James Inhofe

#american #block #blood #cell #concerned