"In church, sacred music would make believers of us all—but preachers can be counted on to restore the balance."

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“The ideal home: big enough for you to hear the children, but not very well.”

“We have to call it "freedom": who'd die for "a lesser tyranny"?”

“The neurotic longs to touch bottom, so at least he won't have that to worry about anymore.”

“A woman asks little of love: only that she be able to feel like a heroine.”

“Every group of six or more has its inner circle, its outer circle, and its hangers-on.”

“The total history of almost anyone would shock almost everyone.”

Resonant Thoughts

"Only God creates ex nihilo. Humans can only create out of something that already exists, which means there has to be an earlier destruction phase."

— Yi-Fu Tuan

geography1930–2022

#religion

"By candle-light nobody would have taken you for above five-and-twenty."

— Isaac Bickerstaffe

Literature1733–1812

#health

"We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthf…"

— Pablo Picasso

Art1881–1973

#knowledge

"That higher and "complete" man is begotten by the "unknown" father and born from Wisdom, and it is he who, in the figure of the puer aeternus—"vultu mutabilis albus et ater"—represents our totality, w…"

— Carl Jung

Psychology1852–1924

#family