Sarmisegetuza Quotes & Sayings

Even in this secular country, the threat posed by religious fundamentalists is never very far away. Every major religious text exhorts the same principles - that of unyielding obedience to a supernatural being, and renunciation of the intellect and personal aspirations. — Andrew Bernstein

The sky is a blue so clean it verges on joy. — Nadeem Aslam

This is what analysts have calculated. It's a number that's out there and we're not arguing with it. — David Edward Kirk

I was like a little scrubby schoolboy with a passion for a sixth-form prefect, and he kinder, and far more inaccessible. — Daphne Du Maurier

For pretty much the entire history of the human species, the average life span was less than thirty years? You could count on ten years or so of real adulthood, right? There was no planning for retirement, There was no planning for a career. There was no planning. No time for planning. No time for a future. But then the life spans started getting longer, and people started having more and more future. And now life has become the future. — John Green

Wife indeed!" laughed Monkey. "You haven't got a wife now. There are some sorts of Taoists that are family men; but who ever heard of a Buddhist priest calmly talking about his 'wife'? — Wu Cheng'en

The word 'self' is as great a mystery as the word 'other'. It's just a polarity between two mysteries. — Terence McKenna