Vasilije Ostroski Quotes & Sayings

All our inventions have endowed material forces with intellectual life, and degraded human life into a material force. — Karl Marx

Wedlock joins nothing, if it joins not hearts. — James Sheridan Knowles

The First, then, should be compared to light, the next [Spirit or Intellect] to the sun, and the third [soul] to the celestial body of the moon, which gets its light from the sun. (V-6-4) — Plotinus

Any business model based around poor people making bad decisions out of ignorance and desperation always works. — Joe Hill

People who believe the earth was created 6000 years ago, when it's actually 4.5 billion years old, should also believe the width of North America is 8 yards. That is the scale of the error. — Richard Dawkins

Nationalisation ... does not in itself engender greater equality, more jobs in the regions, higher investment or industrial democracy. The public knows this perfectly well, and so do the workers who have suffered from pit closures, steel redundancies and the run-down of the railways. It is idiotic to try to bamboozle them. — Anthony Crosland

Be curious, learn and read as much as you can about food. Don't worry about making money. Focus on learning at various venues before you settle down for a steady position. — Rocco DiSpirito

A comprehensive treatment plan for the heart's diseases is to deny the self of its desires, Enjoin hunger, keep worship vigilance in the night, be silent, and meditate in private; Also keep company with good people who possess sincerity, those who are emulated in their states and statements; And, finally, take refuge in the One unto whom all affairs return. That is the most beneficial treatment for all of the previous diseases. This must be to the point in which you are like a man drowning or someone lost in a barren desert and see no source of succor Except from the Guardian, possessor of the greatest power. He is the One who responds to the call of the distressed. — Hamza Yusuf

Anyone who attempts to do both, to adjust to his group and at the same time pursue his individual goal, becomes neurotic. — Carl Jung

It's real interesting to have a soul as a friend, and it makes me feel super special that I've managed it. — Stephenie Meyer

Art is aesthetic communication of the soul - in fact, it's the best of that communication - and taken in its entirety has formed a body of work to stand alongside Science and Religion as one of the three great constructs of culture to aid the individual in his or her struggle to survive in Nature. — Anthony Marais

Yeah, it will be great for later when it's darker too. I don't think I should ravish you right here in the middle of the park in full daylight." She actually gulped, and I laughed loudly. "I'm just messing with you, Goody. You're safe. — Lacey Weatherford

one cannot look "objectively" at oneself and locate oneself in reality; and the task is to think this impossibility itself as an ontological fact, not only as an epistemological limitation. In other words, the task is to think this impossibility not as a limit, but as a positive fact - and this, perhaps, is what at his most radical Hegel does. — Slavoj Zizek

I think my teammates make me look a lot better than I am. — Tim Tebow