“Even though artists of all kinds claim to put their hearts and souls into their works, it will only confuse you, for example, if you try to discern a painter by his paintings. His masterpiece may be the master because of its iridescence; it may display a hundred different perspectives through his single face.” IfsTryingHeartKindMayDifferentSoulFacesArtistExamplePaintingMastersPerspectiveHundredClaimsAll KindsPainterWorking ItDisplayMasterpieceHeart And SoulDifferent Perspective Book:Killosophy Source: Killosophy
“The Master never claims that he is god and others are not; on the contrary the master gives us hope that we are similar to him, very much like him with this little difference - we are not aware of who we are and the Guru knows who he is.” KnowsGivingLittlesDifferencesMastersClaimsContraryWho We AreGuru Author:Anandmurti Gurumaa
“[On refusing to be silenced:] I do not pretend to be John the Baptist rebuking the Pharisees. I do not claim to be Nathan upbraiding David. I aspire only to be Balaam's ass, castigating his master.” MastersClaimsAssAspireBaptistsSpeaking UpPhariseesJohn The BaptistBalaam Author:Katharina Zell
“The very existence of society depends on the fact that every member of it tacitly admits he is not the exclusive possessor of himself, and that he admits the claim of the polity of which he forms a part, to act, to some extent, as his master.” FactsGovernmentFormPoliticsExistenceSocietyMastersDependsMembersClaimsExclusive Author:Thomas Huxley
“Who claims Truth, Truth abandons. History is hir'd, or coerc'd, only in Interests that must ever prove base. She is too innocent, to be left within the reach of anyone in Power,- who need but touch her, and all her Credit is in the instant vanish'd, as if it had never been. She needs rather to be tended lovingly and honorably by fabulists and counterfeiters, Ballad-Mongers and Cranks of ev'ry Radius, Masters of Disguise to provide her the Costume, Toilette, and Bearing, and Speech nimble enough to keep her beyond the Desires, or even the Curiosity, of Government.” IfsNeedsEnoughGovernmentDesireLeftInterestMastersProveSpeechClaimsCuriosityCreditInnocentInstantAbandonDisguiseCostumesBalladsCrankNimbleRadius Author:Thomas Pynchon
“as females in a patriarchal culture, we were not slaves of love; most of us were and are slaves of longing-- yearning for a master who will set us free and claim us because we cannot claim ourselves” CultureMastersFemaleClaimsLongingSlaveYearning Author:Bell Hooks
“The poor dog, in life the firmest friend, The first to welcome, foremost to defend, Whose honest heart is still the master's own, Who labours, fights, lives, breathes for him alone, Unhonour'd falls, unnoticed all his worth, Denied in heaven the soul he held on earth, While man, vain insect hopes to be forgiven, And claims himself a sole exclusive heaven.” MenFirstsHeartStillsSoulEarthFallFightingHeavenPoorHonestDogMastersClaimsBreatheWelcomeVainLabourDeniedSoleForgivenInsectsExclusiveUnnoticed Author:Lord Byron
“No more is your master a god, Nobility, but he wants offerings from all. When Black God claims us, who will be punished for giving worship and power to a false god? The prince? Or Banjiku?” WantGivingBlackMastersWorshipClaimsOfferingNobilityFalse Gods Book:Emperor Mage Source: Emperor Mage
“I do not come into this pulpit hoping that perhaps somebody will of his own free will return to Christ. My hope lies in another quarter. I hope that my Master will lay hold of some of them and say, "You are mine, and you shall be mine. I claim you for myself." My hope arises from the freeness of grace, and not from the freedom of the will.” LyingChristGraceMinesMastersReturnClaimsLaysAriseFree WillQuartersPulpitCalvinismChrists Return Author:Charles Spurgeon
“The poor ego has a still harder time of it; it has to serve three harsh masters, and it has to do its best to reconcile the claims and demands of all three...The three tyrants are the external world, the superego, and the id.” WorldStillsThreePoorMastersDemandEgoClaimsHarderPsychologicalTyrantsHarshReconcileSuperego Author:Sigmund Freud