Eleusinian Festival Quotes

#1. The starting-point of critical elaboration is the consciousness of what one really is, and is 'knowing thyself'as a product of the historical processes to date, which has deposited in you an infinity of traces, without leaving an inventory.

Antonio Gramsci

#2. Ideas, like individuals, live and die. They flourish, according to their nature, in one soil or climate and droop in another. They are the vegetation of the mental world.

William Macneile Dixon

#3. Talking to strangers sounded like talking to no one, which Henry had some firsthand experience in- in real life. It was lonely. Almost as lonely as Lake View Cemetery, where he'd buried Ethel.

Jamie Ford

#4. I feel the gods are pretty dead, though I suppose I ought to know that however, to be somewhat more philosophical in the matter, if atheism means simply not being a theist, then of course I'm an atheist.
[Letter to Max Otto]

John Dewey

#5. Ignorance is the source of hatred, and the way to get rid of ignorance is realization.

Dalai Lama

#6. I realize I can never take my success for granted. It's not attractive for anyone to be like that.

Shannon Tweed

#7. Understand that you're sensitive." Miri was proud for coming up with such a good word. "Is that like saying I'm dramatic, or crazy?" Miri was careful now. "Sensitive is better than dramatic, and it's definitely not as bad as crazy.

Judy Blume

#8. Nothing is more common on earth than to deceive and be deceived.

Johann G. Seume

#9. Don't trust anyone who isn't angry.

John Trudell

#10. What did in the Soviet Union was the Soviet Union.

Robert Dallek