“When the sacred manifests itself in any hierophany, there is not only a break in the homogeneity of space; there is also a revelation of an absolute reality, opposed to the nonreality of the vast surrounding expanse. The manifestation of the sacred ontologically founds the world. In the homogenous and infinite expanse, in which no point of reference is possible and hence no orientation can be established, the hierophany reveals an absolute fixed point, a center.” WorldRealityFoundSpaceBreakAbsolutesInfiniteSacredFixedManifestationRevelationsNo PointOrientationExpanseHomogeneity Author:Mircea Eliade
“How can I set free anyone who doesn't have the guts to stand up alone and declare his own freedom? I think it's a lie - people claim they want to be free - everybody insists that freedom is what they want the most, the most sacred and precious thing a man can possess. But that's bullshit! People are terrified to be set free - they hold on to their chains. They fight anyone who tries to break those chains. It's their securityHow can they expect me or anyone else to set them free if they don't really want to be free?” PeopleIfsThinkingMenWantTryingLyingFightingBreakClaimsSacredChainsGutsBullshitTerrifiedPrecious Things Author:Jim Morrison
“On the pilgrim's path each man must become Moses, going on a vision quest to some mountaintop and returning with the ten or twenty commandments that he holds sacred. So long as we obey or break the rules that have been set up for us by the Giants - Parents and other Authorities - we remain good or bad children. Growing into the fullness of our humanity means that we become co-authors of the rules by which we will agree to have our lives judged.” MenMeanChildrenLongHas BeensHumanityParentVisionBreakPathOur LivesGrowingTenAuthorityTwentiesAgreeSacredGiantsJudgedQuestsCommandmentsFullnessMosesPilgrimGrowing Children Author:Sam Keen
“[Joseph Smith] foresaw the time when the destiny of the nation would be in danger and would hang as by a thread. Thank God he did not see the thread break. He also indicated the important part that this people should yet play in standing for the principles embodied in these sacred documents - the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.” PeopleShouldImportantPlayWould BeNationsPrinciplesBreakDestinyDangerStandingConstitutionIndependenceSacredThank GodThreadDocumentsDeclarationDeclaration Of IndependenceJoseph Smith Author:Ezra Taft Benson
“The desire to break the silence with constant human noise is, I believe, precisely an avoidance of the sacred terror of that divine encounter.” BelieveHumansDesireI BelieveSilenceBreakDivineSacredConstantTerrorNoiseEncountersAvoidance Author:Matsuo Basho
“There's a lovely Hasidic story of a rabbi who always told his people that if they studied the Torah, it would put Scripture on their hearts. One of them asked, "Why on our hearts, and not in them?" The rabbi answered, "Only God can put Scripture inside. But reading sacred text can put it on your heart, and then when your hearts break, the holy words will fall inside.” PeopleIfsHeartStoriesFallReadingBreakHolySacredScriptureLovelyHeart BreakRabbiTorahSacred Texts Book:Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith Source: Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith
“Wise politicians will be cautious about fettering the government with restrictions that cannot be observed, because they know that every break of the fundamental laws, though dictated by necessity, impairs that sacred reverence which ought to be maintained in the breast of rulers towards the constitution of a country.” KnowsCountryGovernmentLawBreakWiseOughtPoliticianConstitutionFundamentalsSacredBreastsReverenceRulersRestrictionCautiousBe Cautious Author:Alexander Hamilton
“In crime the egoist has hitherto asserted himself and mocked at the sacred; the break with the sacred, or rather of the sacred, may become general. A revolution never returns, but an immense, reckless, shameless, conscienceless, proud—crime, doesn't it rumble in the distant thunder, and don't you see how the sky grows ominously silent and gloomy?” MayGrowsBreakSkyCrimeRevolutionReturnProudSacredSilentImmenseThunderRecklessGloomyShamelessRumble Author:Max Stirner
“Nor can We predict happier times for religion and government from the plans of those who desire vehemently to separate the Church from the state, and to break the mutual concord between temporal authority and the priesthood. It is certain that that concord which always was favorable and beneficial for the sacred and the civil order is feared by the shameless lovers of liberty.” StatesGovernmentDesireCertainOrderChurchLibertyBreakPlansLoversAuthoritySacredMutualBeneficialPriesthoodShamelessReligion And GovernmentHappier Times Author:Pope Gregory XVI
“It is Toussaint's supreme merit that while he saw European civilisation as a valuable and necessary thing, and strove to lay its foundations among his people, he never had the illusion that it conferred any moral superiority. He knew French, British, and Spanish imperialists for the insatiable gangsters that they were, that there is no oath too sacred for them to break, no crime, deception, treachery, cruelty, destruction of human life and property which they would not commit against those who could not defend themselves.” PeopleHumansMoralBreakSawsCrimeIllusionDestructionFoundationSacredLaysPropertyValuableBritishSupremeCommitCrueltyDeceptionHuman LifeMeritSuperiorityOathCivilisationGangstersInsatiableTreacheryNecessary ThingsMoral Superiority Author:C. L. R. James
“The entire party and country should hurl into the fire and break the neck of anyone who dared trample underfoot the sacred edict of the party on the defense of women's rights.” ShouldCountryPartyBreakFireRightsSacredDefenseNecksWomens Rights Author:Enver Hoxha
“By definition, sacred beings are separated beings. That which characterizes them is that there is a break of continuity between them and the profane beings.” BreakSacredDefinitionsContinuityProfane Author:Emile Durkheim