#tent

Basically, all my life I'd been told you can't do that because you're female. So I guess I just didn't pay any attention. I just went ahead and did what I could and then, when the stars aligned, I was ready. ↗

— Shannon Lucid

#aligned #any #attention #basically #because

So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds. ↗

— Lucretius

#evil #persuading #potent #religion

I'm more interested in the meaning of funerals and the mourning that people do. It's not a retail experience. It's an existential one. ↗

— Thomas Lynch

#experience #funerals #i #interested #meaning

Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content. ↗

— Louis L'Amour

#being #being content #content #got #nobody

Superstitions and belief in magic are perennial in just the same way as religion, and something near to being universal among mankind; and why this is so may be interesting, but in most cases the beliefs themselves are devoid of interesting content, at least to me. ↗

— Bryan Magee

#being #belief #beliefs #cases #content

The most attention I get is in a book store or video shop when I go to the foreign film section. Sometimes that can be fun, but usually those women want to talk about philosophy or something very dense. It's not like they're tearing off my shirt, you know. ↗

— Tobey Maguire

#attention #book #dense #film #foreign

We see things in this material world, wherein our bodies dwell, only because our mind through its attention lives in another world, only because it contemplates the beauties of the archetypal and intelligible world which Reason contains. ↗

— Nicolas Malebranche

#archetypal #attention #beauties #because #bodies

You need a vanguard organization in order to overcome the dangerous potential brought about by the uneven development of class militancy and class consciousness. ↗

— Ernest Mandel

#brought #class #class consciousness #consciousness #dangerous

Laws should be interpreted in a liberal sense so that their intention may be preserved. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#interpreted #laws #liberal #may #preserved

It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#considered #contradictory #democracy #equality #exclusive