Illuminare Quotes & Sayings

The whole visible world is perhaps nothing other than a motivation of man's wish to rest for a moment an attempt to falsify the fact of knowledge, to try to turn the knowledge into the goal. — Franz Kafka

Ha! Satan, you're a liar! — Neta Jackson

It is better to illuminate than merely to shine.
Maius est illuminare quam lucere solum. — Thomas Aquinas

The more original a short-story writer, the odder looking the assortment of things he or she puts together for a story. — Carol Bly

Was the government to prescribe to us our medicine and diet, our bodies would be in such keeping as our souls are now. — Thomas Jefferson

The older you get, the more swiftly the years pass. It's easy to forget how quickly people die. — Joe Abercrombie

Fortunately I don't want to be part of the mainstream. When I see a Kiki Smith work, for example, she's very contemporary, and I feel a lot of emotion in each of her pieces; I think she understands our time, and she makes really interesting art because of that. — Luis Gonzalez

Mindfulness allows us to shift the angle on our story and to remember that we have the capacity to learn and change in ways that are productive, not self-defeating. — Sharon Salzberg

He was dignity distorted, bravery become knavery, sanctimoniousness masking sin. He was a mirror, jeering at the subject it reflected. Yet so muted were the jeers, so delicate the inaccuracies of delineation, that they evaded detection. True and false were blended together. The false was merely an extended shadow of the true. — Jim Thompson

9Indeed, we felt that we had received the sentence of death. But that was to make us n rely not on ourselves o but on God p who raises the dead. 10 q He delivered us from such a deadly peril, and he will deliver us. r On him we have set our hope that he will deliver us again. — Anonymous

If you can't understand why someone is doing something, look at the consequences of their actions, whatever they might be, and then infer the motivations from their consequences.

For example if someone is making everyone around them miserable and you'd like to know why, their motive may simply be to make everyone around them miserable including themselves. — Jordan B. Peterson

American loneliness is a completely different creature from anything we experience in this country, and it made me glad I was born japanese. — Ryu Murakami

been tumbled smooth by waves — Claire Cook