Idries Shah Quotes

When the ignorant have become numerous or powerful enough, they have been referred to by a special name. This names is 'the Wise'.

Idries Shah

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• We're so marriage-obsessed, we think that only married people are families.

  

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• Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.

  

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• If you get something like 'Avatar,' it opens up a lot of big blockbuster doors.

  

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• I generally have a brand of brief on every day.

  

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• I've always been a bubbly and energetic and happy person, but when I get upset, I get frustrated; when someone makes me mad, I definitely have a temper, and I've had to deal with having a temper my whole life.

  

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• Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.

  

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• All formal dogmatic religions are fallacious and must never be accepted by self-respecting persons as final.

  

  Hypatia

• Oh, my dear Kepler, how I wish that we could have one hearty laugh together. Here, at Padua, is the principal professor of philosophy, whom I have repeatedly and urgently requested to look at the moon and planets through my glass, [telescope] which he pertinaciously refuses to do. Why are you not here? what shouts of laughter we should have at this glorious folly! and to hear the professor of philosophy at Pisa laboring before the grand duke with logical arguments, as if with magical incantations, to charm the new planets out of the sky.

  

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• When the ignorant have become numerous or powerful enough, they have been referred to by a special name. This names is 'the Wise'.

  

  Idries Shah
  • Powerful
  • Wise
  • Ignorant