Altenheim Quotes & Sayings

Nor does it matter from the standpoint of a comparative study of symbolic forms whether Christ or the Buddha ever actually lived and performed the miracles associated with their teachings. The religious literatures of the world abound in counterparts of those two great lives. And what one may learn from them all, finally, is that the savior, the hero, the redeemed one, is the one who has learned to penetrate the protective wall of those fears within, which exclude the rest of us, generally, in our daylight and even our dreamnight thoughts, from all experience of our own and the world's divine ground. The mythologized biographies of such saviors communicate the messages of their world-transcending wisdom in world-transcending symbols - which, ironically, are then generally translated back into such verbalized thoughts as built the interior walls in the first place. — Joseph Campbell

To make a thief, make an owner; to create crime, create laws. — Ursula K. Le Guin

There's a lot that the majority, a big majority of the American people want to see us do and I'm very excited about that work. I think the Democratic Party has a record of being better for the economy when we hold the White House. — Hillary Clinton

By the very nature of government schooling, the matter of what goes into school textbooks must necessarily be a political matter, to be decided by those I political power. — Jacob G. Hornberger

Hope is something that can never be taken from you unless you allow someone to take it. If you never lose hope, you will never truly be poor. — John M. Simmons

Bob Dylan started out as a folk rip- off but he quickly ran with complex influences and it ended up to be his own sound. — Daniel Smith

We are not doing celebrity, personality, abusive politics - we are doing ideas. This is about hope. — Jeremy Corbyn

And I am too knowledgeable now to hurt people imprecisely — Tony Hoagland