Top 10 Sia Figiel Quotes
#1. For when a nation becomes civilized, if it does not drop human sacrifices altogether, it at least selects as victims only such wretches as would be put to death at any rate. Thus the killing of a god may sometimes come to be confounded with the execution of a criminal.
James G. Frazer
#2. If you encase yourself in stone like a fossil, you'll have an existence, but not a life.
Deborah O'Brien
#3. Is heaven also made in Taiwan? And does Jesus really know how to speak Samoan?
Sia Figiel
#4. What? She won't graduate because she can't swim the length of a pool? Really? Is this a serious academic position for a serious academic place?
Thomas Christopher Greene
#5. It dances today, my heart,
like a peacock it dances,
it dances.
It sports a mosaic of passions like a peacock's tail,
It soars to the sky with delight, it quests,
Oh wildly, it dances today, my heart,
like a peacock it dances.
Rabindranath Tagore
#6. Laws which can be broken without any wrong to one's neighbor are a laughing-stock; and such laws, instead of restraining the appetites and lusts of mankind, serve rather to heighten them. Nitimur in vetitum semper, cupimusque negata [we always resist prohibitions, and yearn for what is denied us].
Baruch Spinoza
#7. Everything is "acceptable" in the sight of God, for how can God not accept that which is? To reject a thing is to deny that it exists.
Neale Donald Walsch
#9. We can always get along better by reason and love of truth than by worry of conscience and remorse ... we should strive to keep worry from our life.
Baruch Spinoza
#10. Mental bearing (calmness), not skill, is the sign of a matured samurai. A Samurai therefore should neither be pompous nor arrogant.
Tsukahara Bokuden
