#able

She was the sort of person for whom fear was the natural response to that beyond explanation. ↗

— Kate Morton

#inexplicable #personality #nature

But how has it happened that millions of fables, tales, legends have been blended with both Jewish and Christian revelation that have made them the most bloody religion that ever existed? ↗

— John Adams

#christianity #fables #legends #religion #religion

But is the unicorn a falsehood? It's the sweetest of animals and a noble symbol. It stands for Christ and for chastity; it can be captured only by setting a virgin in the forest, so that the animal, catching her most chaste odor, will go and lay its head in her lap, offering itself as prey to the hunters' snares." "So it is said, Adso. But many tend to believe that it's a fable, an invention of the pagans." "What a disappointment," I said. "I would have liked to encounter one, crossing a wood. Otherwise what's the pleasure of crossing a wood? ↗

— Umberto Eco

#fables #mythology #religion #symbolism #unicorns

How then can we deal with our tendency toward worldliness? It is *not* by determining that we will not be worldly, but by committing ourselves to becoming more godly. ↗

— Jerry Bridges

#jerry-bridges #respectable-sins #worldliness #respect

Burying your head in the sand does not make you invisible it only leads to suffocation. ↗

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

#chi-ro-jin #head #invisibility #invisible #quotable

Physics advances by accepting absurdities. Its history is one of unbelievable ideas proving to be true. ↗

— Rivka Galchen

#ideas #physics #science #truth #unbelievable

To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve. And once you get to your highest level, then you have to be unselfish. Stay reachable. Stay in touch. Don't isolate. ↗

— Michael Jordan

#else #get #highest #highest level #isolate

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. ↗

— Arthur C. Clarke

#advanced #advanced technology #any #indistinguishable #magic

Artists use lies to tell the truth. Yes, I created a lie. But because you believed it, you found something true about yourself. ↗

— Alan Moore

#parables #storytelling #true

I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat. ↗

— Rebecca West

#been #call #differentiate #doormat #express