Papoulias Dimitrios Quotes & Sayings

People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations. — Barbara Deming

She shed no tears. She just sat there, as if someone had cut out her heart. — Cornelia Funke

It is a whole lot easier to see our problems in others than it is to see them in ourselves. — Marshall Goldsmith

The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion. — Ulrich Beck

Season of Joy:
She asked me when the season of joy was supposed to end & I said I didn't really think there was an exact date, so we left the tree up till June that year. — Brian Andreas

Life is arduous without any breaks, like a long journey without any inns. Learned variety makes it pleasant. Spend the first part of a fine life in communication with the dead. We are born to know and to know ourselves, and books reliably turn us into people. Spend the second part with the living: see and examine all that's good in the world. Not everything can be found in one country; the universal Father has shared out his gifts and sometimes endows the ugliest with the most. Let the third stage be spent entirely with yourself: the ultimate happiness, to philosophize. — Baltasar Gracian

Nothing has a greater tendency to lessen the reverence which mankind ought to have for the Supreme Being, than a careless repetition of his name upon every trifling occasion ... To prevent this profanation, such passages are selected from scripture, as contain some important precepts of morality and religion, in which that sacred name is seldom mentioned. Let sacred things be appropriated to sacred purposes. — Noah Webster