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It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life. ↗

— Max Frisch

#ending #life #meaning #precisely #proper

[W]e conceive the Devil as a necessary part of a respectable view of cosmology. Ours is a divided empire in which certain ideas and emotions and actions are of God, and their opposites are of Lucifer. It is as impossible for most men to conceive of a morality without sin as of an earth without 'sky'. Since 1692 a great but superficial change has wiped out God's beard and the Devil's horns, but the world is still gripped between two diametrically opposed absolutes. The concept of unity, in which positive and negative are attributes of the same force, in which good and evil are relative, ever-changing, and always joined to the same phenomenon - such a concept is still reserved to the physical sciences and to the few who have grasped the history of ideas. ↗

— Arthur Miller

#christianity #morality #religion #change

Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits. ↗

— Hervey Allen

#keeping #middle-aged #only #senses #their

You will not be carried to Heaven lying at ease upon a feather bed. ↗

— Samuel Rutherford

#carried #ease #feather #heaven #lying

And the insidious thing is that people will either see a movie because it did well last weekend or won't see it because it didn't do well. ↗

— Meg Ryan

#did #either #insidious #last #movie

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. ↗

— Aristotle

#aim #appearance #inward #outward #outward appearance

Everything changes except human behavior and its consequences. ↗

— Stephanie M. Sellers

#horses #lumbee-indians #mustangs #non-fiction #north-carolina

A few weeks later, in the wood, I came across Miss Riding Hood. But what a change! No cloak of red, No silly hood upon her head. She said, 'Hello, and do please note My lovely furry wolfskin coat. ↗

— Roald Dahl

#red-riding-hood-and-the-wolf #change

Dreams shouldn't be about what you can buy--they should be about what mark you leave in the world. ↗

— Claire Cross

#mark-on-the-world #materialism #dreams

It is almost possible to predict one or two days in advance, within a rather broad range of probability, what the weather is going to be; it is even thought that it will not be impossible to publish daily forecasts, which would be very useful to soci. ↗

— Antoine Lavoisier

#almost #broad #broad range #daily #days