#tan

Like true philosophers I've come to believe that religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown after proper education. ↗

— Josh Lanyon

#josh-lanyon #religion #religious-faith #satanism #the-hell-you-say

I had done all that I could, and no Man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#effort #frustration #respect #understanding-others #education

Causes do matter. And the world is changed by people who care deeply about causes – about things that matter. We don’t have to be particularly smart or talented. We don’t need a lot of money or education. All we really need is to be passionate about something important; something bigger than ourselves. And it’s that commitment to a worthwhile cause that changes the world. ↗

— Steve Goodier

#cause #causes #changing-the-world #commitment #commitments

Democracy is in the blood of Musalmans, who look upon complete equality of manhood [mankind]…[and] believe in fraternity, equality and liberty. ↗

— Muhammad Ali Jinnah

#equality #freedom #islam #jinnah #muslims

If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of the utmost importance (...); as great as a man, some think even greater. But this is woman in fiction. In fact, as Professor Trevelyan points out [in his History of England], she was locked up, beaten and flung about the room. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#clichés #dignity #equality #fiction #gender

Man will never understand woman and vice versa. We are oil and water. An equal level can never be maintained, as one will always excel where the other doesn't, and that breeds resentment. ↗

— Dionne Warwick

#breeds #equal #excel #level #maintained

The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God's eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love. ↗

— Meister Eckhart

#god #knowledge #love #medieval #mysticism

Just as some people may conceal their own sinfulness thus seeming better than the norm, others expose their own sinfulness thus seeming worse than the norm. ↗

— Criss Jami

#conceal #equality #evil #expose #good

You cannot be fair to others without first being fair to yourself. Know that a well-honed sense of justice is a measure of personal experience, and all experience is a measure of self. Know that the highest expression of justice is mercy. Thus, as the supreme judge in your own court, you must have compassion for yourself. Otherwise, cede your gavel. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#charity #fair #fairness #judge #judgment

You are the point of origin for everything in your world: you set the standard for yourself. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#inspirational #life #motivational #point-of-origin #standard