Laird Barron Quotes
Enlightenment is its own reward, its own punishment. You begin to see so much more. And so much more sees you.
Laird Barron
Quotes to Explore
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God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlightenment at the same time.
Ralph Fiennes
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Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the true test of spirituality. But there have always have been those who'd rather put easier goals, like doctrine conformity, in place.
Karen Armstrong
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Joseph Warren, like a lot of revolutionary leaders, was into Enlightenment literature.
Nathaniel Philbrick
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We are victims of the post-Enlightenment view that the world functions like a sophisticated machine, to be understood like a textbook engineering problem and run by wonks. In other words, like a home appliance, not like the human body.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Enlightenment values of individual freedom are manifested best in individual acts of criticism and defiance.
Pankaj Mishra
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If, after obtaining Buddhahood, anyone in my land gets tossed in jail on a vagrancy rap, may I not attain highest perfect enlightenment.
Gary Snyder
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The use of drugs like mescaline may serve an appropriate purpose. Indeed, "Psychedelic" drugs have been widely used in the spiritual traditions of the world, including the Yoga of Patanjali, though they were never advertised as ultimate keys to enlightenment, merely as stepping-stones on the spiritual path.
Georg Feuerstein
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An approximately linear income tax schedule is desirable; and in particular negative income tax proposals are strongly supported,
James Mirrlees
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If what that man did in his life, makes the blood pulse through the body of others, and makes them believe deeper in something larger than life, then his essence, his spirit, will be immortalized by the storytellers, by the loyalty, by the memory, of those who honor him and make whatever the man did live forever.
The Ultimate Warrior
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I always thought I was a singer, but I really am not.
Eddie Albert
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As we agreed, the Congress will include this funding in the upcoming emergency appropriations bill to fund the recovery and rebuilding efforts for hurricanes Katrina and Rita. The bill we send to the president for signature will include the $125 million.
Dennis Hastert
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Enlightenment is its own reward, its own punishment. You begin to see so much more. And so much more sees you.
Laird Barron
