Hagmann Store Quotes

#1. His cold politeness, his ceremonious grace, were worse than anything.

Jane Austen

#2. We will go on producing myths, ways of explaining ourselves to ourselves but, like everything else about us, they are in constant transition and we must not fundamentalise any of them.

Richard Holloway

#3. Ritual disposal of the dead speaks clearly of an awareness of death, and thus an awareness of self.

Richard Leakey

#4. Duality is always secretly unity.

Alan Watts

#5. How is it possible to suspend topaz in one cup of the balance and weigh it against amethyst in the other; or who in a single language can compare the tranquillizing grace of a maiden with the invigorating pleasure of witnessing a well-contested rat-fight?

Ernest Bramah

#6. When I was young, I was sure of many things; now there are only two things of which I am sure: one is, that I am a miserable sinner; and the other, that Christ is an all-sufficient Saviour. He is well-taught who learns these two lessons.

John Newton

#7. Writers 'get started' the day they are born. The minds they bring into the world with them are the amazing machines their stories will come out of, and the more they feed into it, the richer those stories will be.

Lois Duncan

#8. A language presupposes that all the individual users possess the organs.

Ferdinand De Saussure

#9. Table 3/14 Levels of cholesterol in various European countries in relation to the index of mortality caused by heart disease. It is evident that there is no relation between both curves (source: WHO).

Dr. Dimitris Tsoukalas