Panikkar Quotes & Sayings

Music is the strongest form of magic. — Marilyn Manson

Jean-Marie Le Pen is a holocaust denier who was convicted and fined for dismissing Nazi concentration camps as a, quote, "Detail in History." But he kept running this anti-immigrant, anti-Semitic, populist unapologetic xenophobic far right party in French politics. — Rachel Maddow

God is so great that the greatness precludes existence. — Raimon Panikkar

The self identity of Man is transcultural, and thus cannot have any single point of reference. Pluralism is not synonymous with tolerance of a variety of opinions. Pluralism amounts to the recognition of the unthinkable, the absurd, and up to a limit, intolerable. Reality in itself does not need to be transparent intelligible. — Raimon Panikkar

The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

My mom took me to see Goldfinger. My mom took me to see To Sir, With Love. — Chaka Khan

Myth: Vampires don't exist
Truth: Dead wrong. — Kimberly Pauley

A first book often has enough material in it for half a dozen. — Caroline Gordon

If a dream affords the dreamer some light on himself, it is not the person with closed eyes who makes the discovery but the person with open eyes lucid enough to fit thoughts together. Dream-a scintillating mirage surrounded by shadows-is essentially poetry. — Michel Leiris

You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine. — Tertullian

I left Europe [for India] as a Christian, I discovered I was a Hindu and returned as a Buddhist without ever having ceased to be a Christian. — Raimon Panikkar

"thanks" in MaoriGrateful living: an alchemic operation of converting "disgraceful" things into grateful events. — Raimon Panikkar

As much as I love movies, it would be presumptuous of me to think that I know how to make one. — Yann Martel

I can walk into a room with all my contemporaries and I will be very comfortable. — Deepika Padukone

Soils could also be giving up their carbon stores: evidence emerged in 2005 that a vast expanse of western Siberia was undergoing an unprecedented thaw. The region, the largest frozen peat bog in the world, had begun to melt for the first time since it formed 11,000 years ago. Scientists believe the bog could begin to release billions of tonnes of methane locked up in the soils, a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide. The World Meteorological Organisation recently reported the largest annual rise of methane levels in the atmosphere for a decade. — David Adam

There are certain aspects of acting that I don't like. I'm not a person who loves being on set. I mean, I know people that have their espresso machines in their trailers and they like being in there and they put pictures on walls. But I don't like it. I don't like sitting around. — Joaquin Phoenix

...if I do not take my intellectual vocation seriously, putting it before everything else even at the risk of appearing inhuman, then I am also incapable of helping people in more concrete and proximate ways. Conversely, if I am not alert and ready to save people from a conflagration, that is to say, if I do not take my spiritual calling in all earnestness, sacrificing to it all else, even my own life, then I shall be unable to help in rescuing the manuscript. If I do not involve myself in the concrete issues of my time, and if I do not open my house to all the winds of the world, then anything I produce from an ivory tower will be barren and cursed. Yet if I do not shut doors and windows in order to concentrate on this work, then I will not be able to offer anything of value to my neighbors. — Raimon Panikkar

This sounds really corny, but I am a slave to my work, a workaholic, and glad of it. I like what I do; this is my place, my little universe, one of them. — Henry Rollins

If I am never to have you again after this night, this moment, you will remain the wife of my soul. Keeper of my heart. — Penelope Williamson

Religion is not an experiment, it is an experience of life through which one is part of the cosmic adventure. — Raimon Panikkar

Years ago I heard the Indian Jesuit Raimundo Panikkar say: Expect Nothing. — Lawrence Fagg

I am simply not interested, at this point, in creating narrative scenes between characters. — Lydia Davis