Baviaans Quotes & Sayings

Metaphysical guilt is the lack of absolute solidarity with the human being as such
an indelible claim beyond morally meaningful duty. This solidarity is violated by my presence at a wrong or a crime. It is not enough that I cautiously risk my life to prevent it; if it happens, and I was there, and if I survive where the other is killed, I know from a voice within myself: I am guilty of being still alive. — Karl Jaspers

But God disciplines us for our good, that we may share in his holiness ... Without holiness no one will see the Lord. HEBREWS 12:10, 14 — Andrew Murray

A functionary, when he really is nothing more than a functionary, is really a very dangerous gentleman. — Hannah Arendt

Well, I have a very simple method of painting. — Edward Hopper

When you move beyond your fear, you feel free. — Spencer Johnson

nature is more imaginative than we are. — Lawrence M. Krauss

If you want to understand what you're thinking, you kind of have to work it through and write it. And the only way to work it through, for me, is to write it. — Joan Didion

The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only. — Victor Hugo

The ellipse is as aimless as that,
Stretching invisibly into the future so as to reappear
In our present. Its flexing is its account,
Return to the point of no return. — John Ashbery

Guatemala's ornate presidential palace, once a terrifying fortress whose every corridor was patrolled by heavily armed soldiers in berets and camouflage uniforms, is now a normal public building where ordinary citizens enter without fear. — Stephen Kinzer

March is outside the door Flaming some old desire As man turns uneasily from his fire. — David McCord

So long as the mother, Ignorance, lives, it is not safe for Science the offspring, to divulge the hidden causes of things. — Johannes Kepler

Every thing-become is mortal. Not only peoples, languages, races and Culture are transient. — Oswald Spengler

We are more than our problems. Even if our problem is our own behavior, the problem is not who we are-it's what we did. It's okay to have problems. It's okay to talk about problems-at appropriate times, and with safe people. It's okay to solve problems. And we're okay, even when we have, or someone we love has a problem. We don't have to forfeit our personal power or our self-esteem. We have solved exactly the problems we've needed to solve to become who we are. — Melody Beattie