#tho

It may be impossible to have a revolution without crimes but that does not make revolution a crime. ↗

The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted. ↗

The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#developed #faces #like #masks #own

Would it be possible that I should not in any degree succeed? I can scarcely think so. Ah delusive hope, how much further wilt thou lead me? ↗

— John James Audubon

#any #degree #delusive #further #hope

Though my books are written from a historical perspective, I have goon so far back that I am in the realm of prehistorical speculation rather than simple historical fact to weave my stories around. ↗

— Jean M. Auel

#around #back #books #fact #far

My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is. ↗

— Saint Augustine

#bathed #contradictory #experience #extracting #find

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#bubble #dig #ever #fountain #good

Because thought has by now been perverted into the solving of assigned problems, even what is not assigned is processed like a problem. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#because #been #even #into #like

Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#character #dyed #habitual #mind #soul

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it. ↗