“Para organizar una revolución, nunca basta con los números. Por lo general, las revoluciones las hacen pequeñas redes de agitadores y no las masas”
“Si la ciencia es la constelación de hechos, teorías y medios recogidos en los textos al uso, entonces los científicos son las personas que, con éxito o sin él, han intentado aportar un elemento u otro de esa constelación concreta.”
Source: La estructura de las revoluciones científicas (Breviarios nº 213)
“A los malos se les encuentra fácilmente aseveró el pope ; Judas, María Magdalena. Pero, y los buenos?”
Source: Christ Recrucified
“It is an ancient land, honoured in the archives of civilisation. Every great European race has sent its stream to the river of the Irish mind.”
Source: Literary and Historical Essays
“Exquisitely embroidered tapestries lined the walls of Medb’s bedroom, but their impact was somewhat reduced by the room’s ambience. A musky odor with pungent accents of stale piss.”
Source: Conall: The Place of Blood - Rinn-Iru
“die tonight to be reborn again in the fire of Lugh”
“We feel safe on familiar ground, the tried and tested, the accepted, the so-called ‘normal’, but life is meant to be experienced and explored, to be a journey of self-discovery and adventure.”
Source: Mrs Darley's Pagan Whispers: A Celebration of Pagan Festivals, Sacred Days, Spirituality and Traditions of the Year
“We become paralysed with fear and guilt, obsessed by ‘labels’ and become unable to question the reasoning behind our beliefs or indeed realise that it is acceptable to challenge them. Sometimes we simply need to give ourselves permission to break free from the confines of the tribe and find our own way.”
Source: Mrs Darley's Pagan Whispers: A Celebration of Pagan Festivals, Sacred Days, Spirituality and Traditions of the Year
“It's like a...dance somehow, a minuet or a pavane. Something stately and pointless, with all its steps set out. With a beginning, and an end...
Sir John, sometimes I think life's all a mass of significance, all sorts of strands and threads woven like a tapestry or a brocade. So if you pulled one out or broke it the pattern would alter right back through the cloth. Then I think...it's all totally pointless, it would make just as much sense backwards as forwards, effects leading to causes and those to more effects...maybe that's what will happen, when we get to the end of Time.”
Source: Pavane
“A single flame may not burn very hot, but it has the power to grow into an unstoppable fire.”
Source: The Magic of Nature: Meditations & Spells to Find Your Inner Voice