Zxvio Quotes & Sayings

Paracelsus's grand project, which arguably is still going on today,* represents one of the many ways the Judeo-Christian tradition has deployed its genius to absorb, or co-opt, the power of the pagan faith it set out to uproot. In much the same way that the new monotheism folded into its rituals the people's traditional pagan holidays and spectacles, it desperately needed to do something about their ancient devotion to magic plants. Indeed, the story of the forbidden fruit in Genesis suggests that nothing was more important. — Michael Pollan

Music makes me forget myself, my real position; it transports me to some other position not my own. Under the influence of music it seems to me that I feel what I do not really feel, that I understand what I do not understand, that I can do what I cannot do. I explain it by the fact that music acts like yawning, like laughter: I am not sleepy, but I yawn when I see someone yawning; there is nothing for me to laugh at, but I laugh when I hear people laughing.
Music carries me immediately and directly into the mental condition in which the man was who composed it. My soul merges with his and together with him I pass from one condition into another, but why this happens I don't know. — Leo Tolstoy

If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you really were? What if the face you showed the world turned out to be a mask ... with nothing beneath it? — Jodi Picoult

Culture is evolving, and I'm along for the ride. — Bryan Lee O'Malley

That's scary, all the time to be afraid Wreck 2015 (Film, you should check it out). — Deyth Banger

Bruce Springsteen's world is where everybody did these terrible jobs, if they had jobs at all, and he wanted something better. — Bobbie Ann Mason

Holiness is not something done but a lifestyle. — Evans Biya

She waits for me at windows and buys me dragons. There are reasons we walk this earth, I'm coming to realize mine. — Kristen Ashley

That we may consult concerning others, and not others concerning us. — Plutarch

It is the very essence of art,' she [Hallie Flanagan:] told a group gathered in Washington ... , 'that it exceed bounds, often including those of tradition, decorum, and that mysterious thing called taste. It is the essence of art that it shatter accepted patterns, advance into unknown territory, challenge the existing order. Art is highly explosive. To be worth its salt it must have in that salt a fair sprinkling of gunpowder. — Susan Quinn

I believe that without free enterprise there can be no democracy. — Dwight D. Eisenhower