Specular Reflection Quotes & Sayings

There is a subtle danger that leads people away from religion, prevents them from submitting to God as their Lord, and ultimately, brings numerous other forms of trouble and distress upon them. This danger is ROMANTICISM, which leads people to live, not according to their reason, but according to their emotions; that is, according to their desires, hatreds, their susceptibility to temptations and their whims. — Harun Yahya

As far as consistency of thought goes, I prefer inconsistency. — John Cage

Our societies appear to be intent on immediate consumption rather than on investment for the future. We are piling up enormous debts and exploiting the natural environment in a manner which suggests that we have no real sense of any worthwhile future. Just as a society which believes in the future saves in the present in order to invest in the future, so a society without belief spends everything now and piles up debts for future generations to settle. "Spend now and someone else will pay later." — Lesslie Newbigin

He was right to insist. If they put her on a train, — Laura Moriarty

Five-Year," a term given to cash minted before 2023. That was the last year cash was produced without embedded chips that could trace every use of the currency as if it was a debit or credit card. — Gary A. Ballard

Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our culture's tolerance wears thin when religion intrudes on the public discourse ... Our schools, courtrooms, and libraries set the tone for the entire society. The message they currently communicate is harsh and unambiguous: religion is offensive and should be kept out of public view. — Ralph E. Reed Jr.

The one and true God of the Bible does not share His glory with any man or anyone else. There is only room for one God. — Monica Johnson

In the modern view, unbridled personal freedom is the only good to be pursued; any obstacle to it is a problem to be overcome. — Anthony Daniels

Art is not ideology. It is completely impossible to explain art on the basis of the homological relation that it is supposed to maintain with the real of history. The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity. The aesthetic effect is certainly imaginary; but this imaginary is not the reflection of the real, since it is the real of this reflection. — Alain Badiou

Marry, then, sweet wag, when thou art king, let not us that are squires of the night's body be called thieves of the day's beauty. Let us be Diana's foresters, gentlemen of the shade, minions of the moon, and let men say we be men of good government, being governed, as the sea is, by our noble and chaste mistress the moon, under whose countenance we steal. — William Shakespeare

May the trees continue to thrive and flourish on this earth, filling our hearts with joy and inspiration. — Stephanie Kaza

(Stereotyping) is only for those without the imagination to see people as they are instead of being like someone else they understand. — Tom Clancy

I think the worst thing that could have happened to me would have been having a hit at 20. I don't know what that would have done to me. But instead, I had to scrape a living for years. And my first show, which opened in 1969, lost over £45,000, an absolute fortune then. — Cameron Mackintosh

You know, there's more to being an evil despot then getting cake whenever you want it."
"If that's what you think, then you're DOING IT WRONG! — Phil Foglio