Titus Burckhardt Quotes

#1. The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass.

Martin Mull

#2. No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune.

Mary Wortley Montagu

#3. St. Hierotheos, the great teacher quoted by Dionysius in his book on Divine Names: "As form giving form to all that is formless, in so far as It is the principle of form, the Divine Nature of the Christ is none the less formless in all that has form, since It transcends all form....

Titus Burckhardt

#4. Unless you're God, you are never too "big" to be a fan.

Behdad Sami

#5. To expound and propogate concepts is simple,
to drop all concepts is difficult and rare

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#6. Now the country is in a terrible state and you've blamed it on a number of things - unemployment rate, the value of the pound, and all that. It's actually because the national anthem is boring.

Billy Connolly

#7. I'm also giggling, which I think I've done maybe never in my lifetime.

Suzanne Collins

#8. I'd rather laugh - not fuss and fight. You can articulate your point without arguing. When you're arguing constantly, you just need to say, 'You're real cool, but you're not for me.'

Keshia Knight Pulliam

#9. I cried when i saw those
buildings collapse on themselves like a broken heart.

Suheir Hammad

#10. Nothing succeeds, they say, like success. And certainly nothing fails like failure.

Margaret Drabble

#11. A craft can only have meaning when it serves a spiritual way.

Titus Burckhardt

#12. One of the fundamental conditions of happiness is to know that everything that one does has a meaning in eternity

Titus Burckhardt

#13. Another possibility is that competition for resources flared up into violence and genocide. Tolerance is not a Sapiens trademark. In modern times, a small difference in skin colour, dialect or religion has been enough to prompt one group of Sapiens to set about exterminating another group. Would

Yuval Noah Harari

#14. It seemed to me that I could write commercial fiction. I wasn't sure whether I could, or whether I wanted to write serious fiction at that point. So I said, 'Let me try something else,' and I wrote a mystery - but I didn't know much about it.

James Patterson

#15. It is necessarily so, since every traditional art obeys a particular spiritual economy that limits its themes and means of expression, so that an abandonment of that economy almost immediately releases new and apparently unlimited artistic possibilities.

Titus Burckhardt

#16. One positive statement of good is more powerful than 1,000 negative thoughts; and two positive statements of good are more powerful than 10,000 negative thoughts.

Catherine Ponder

#17. For what is idolatry if not this: to worship the gifts in place of the Giver himself?

John Calvin

#18. There's nothing else to say right now. I love you, baby, more than life itself. And the greatest thing about it ... our happiest days are still to come.

Sawyer Bennett

#19. I don't make a film to make people like it. I make a film to make people think

Nelofer Pazira