George Bernard Shaw Quotes
Once the divinity we worshipped made itself visible and comprehensible, we crucified it.
Quotes to Explore
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Pleasure unparalleled, into the ocean of love we fell. Swimming in the timeless currents of pure bliss, fantasies interchanging with every kiss.
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A lobster bisque ought to be the crowning glory of the potager. And this one was excellent. Silky as a gigolo's compliment and fishy as a chancellor's promise.
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We think we live in a global village. We don't. The world is a big and beautiful and incredibly varied place. It can only be known locally, with your two feet on the ground. We should stick to our own gardens, as Voltaire said.
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A man's heart is right when he wills what God wills.
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Everything hurt. I closed my eyes, pressing my cheek to the street, and waited. What for, I didn't know. To be rescued. Or found. But no one came. All I'd ever thought I wanted was to be left alone. Until I was.
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How sad it is when someone comes to you looking for Jesus and all they see is you.
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Trust is a great force multiplier.
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Volunteerism is vital in all times; it keeps our communities alive...and will make a difference in the lives of those who will come after us.
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I decided that maybe we left each other alone too much. Leaving each other alone was killing us.
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For me, architecture is a social act.
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If I thought about it, I could be bitter, but I don't feel like being bitter. Being bitter makes you immobile, and there's too much that I still want to do.
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Health is more than the absence of disease. Health is about jobs and employment, education, the environment, and all of those things that go into making us healthy.
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I make a living out of being pompous! Why should I change?
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If at times I have thought myself unfortunate, it is because of a confusion, an error. I have mistaken myself for someone else... Who am I really? I am the author of The World as Will and Representation, I am the one who has given an answer to the mystery of Being that will occupy the thinkers of future centuries. That is what I am, and who can dispute it in the years of life that still remain for me?
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Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see. There is an interest in that which is hidden and which the visible does not show us. This interest can take the form of a quite intense feeling, a sort of conflict, one might say, between the visible that is hidden and the visible that is present.
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But no one except Lucy knew that as it circled the mast it had whispered to her, "Courage, dear heart," and the voice, she felt sure, was Aslan's, and with the voice a delicious smell breathed in her face.
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Once the divinity we worshipped made itself visible and comprehensible, we crucified it.
