religion

"Epictetus is a thinker we cannot forget, once we have encountered him, because he gets under our skin. He provokes and he irritates, but he deals so trenchantly with life’s everyday challenges that no…"

"The manner in which Epictetus, Montaigne, and Salomon de Tultie wrote, is the most usual, the most suggestive, the most remembered, and the oftener quoted; because it is entirely composed of thoughts …"

"After great pain, a formal feeling comes -The Nerves sit ceremonious, like Tombs -The stiff Heart questions 'was it He, that bore,'And 'Yesterday, or Centuries before'?"

"A solemn thing - it was - I said -A Woman - white - to be -And wear - if God should count me fit -Her blameless mystery -"

"Here, in essence, was the weakness of Margaret’s position – the same fundamental flaw that had beset every one of Henry’s chief counsellors. Regardless of which advisor was uppermost in the king’s con…"

""Africa in its essence is a conception of man and life.""

"[A merchant of Awdaghast said] that he saw one of these women reclining on her side...and her child, an infant, played with her, passing under her waist from side to side without her having to draw aw…"

"The Jews were behind all the persecutions of the Christians. They wandered through the country everywhere hating and undermining the Christian faith."

"Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve."

"It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God."

"It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God."

"Every self-manifestation bestows a new creation and removes a pre-ceding creation. Its removal is the essence of annihilation (fanaa) in the passing self-manifestation and subsistence (baqaa) in the b…"

"“Eritrea’s present is the remote future of others… I am not ashamed to admit that I have been overwhelmed by what I saw. Living, working, and eating with these staunch revolutionaries, I am tempted to…"

"“Basically it was the belief that kept nagging me every time I read a book that I could write better than the writer of the book. I gave it a try and here I am.”"

"There was one, the majority, filled with the men sparked by faith and certitude, and the other handed over to questioning, anxiety and bullying."

"Today, we gather for a moment that is both historic and deeply personal. A moment that is bigger than any one of us yet rooted in the stories of each of us. A moment that carries the echoes of those w…"

"One major idea came from a man called Booker T. Washington. He said: why don’t we just train black people in technical skills from which they can earn a living? We don’t need to be equal to whites; we…"

""I would go with any Discworld novel with Commander (formerly Captain) Samuel Vimes, one of the Discworld’s main characters. He is, I think, a man with too much on his plate. How he manages to make it…"

""The questioning and sometimes outright denial of African people's humanity inevitably enabled not only genocides but epistemicides, linguicides and cultural imperialism.""

"What other people see, I don’t care. It’s about what am I enjoying. I like a nice life. I like to pour petrol without having to check how much it costs ... that’s how I treat my money."