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“Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout.”

Should Age Literature Effects Music Is Dignity Agree Remains Sacred Secular Cheerful Secular Music

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Trial by jury is a privilege of the highest and most beneficial nature [and] our most important guardian both of public and private liberty. The liberties of England cannot but subsist so long as this palladium remains sacred and inviolate, not only from all open attacks, ... but also from all secret machinations, which may sap and undermine it.”

May Long Important Secret Liberty Highest England Remains Sacred Privilege Trials Guardian Beneficial Jury Sap Trial By Jury

Author:William Blackstone

“We simply thought that we would be considerably poorer in Europe if we didn't have the sacred buildings of earlier epochs. It's still possible to experience the Gothic period, not to mention the Romantic. Only nothing remains of the industrial age. So we thought that our photos would give the viewer the chance to go back to a time that is gone forever.”

Ifs Giving Stills Would Be Age Chance Gone Forever Building Periods Europe Remains Sacred Viewers Gothic

Author:Bernd Becher

“I think the challenge for humans remains the same as it has always been: to learn the skills of kindness, compassion, and love. Without these sacred skills, all technology can do is grow the shadows in our lives.”

Thinking Humans Grows Can Do Challenges Compassion Kindness Technology Our Lives Skills Shadow And Love Remains Sacred

Author:Alexander Weinstein

“When my relations with the Communist Party gave me the necessary perspective I decided to write my autobiography. I wanted to show how a man can pass from literature held sacred to action which nevertheless remains that of an intellectual.”

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Author:Jean-Paul Sartre

“To have humility is to experience reality, not in relation to ourselves, but in its sacred independence. It is to see, judge, and act from the point of rest in ourselves. Then, how much disappears, and all that remains falls into place. In the point of rest at the center of our being, we encounter a world where all things are at rest in the same way. Then a tree becomes a mystery, a cloud a revelation, each man a cosmos of whose riches we can only catch glimpses. The life of simplicity is simple, but it opens to us a book in which we never get beyond the first syllable.”

“God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?”

World Spiritual Games Water Blood Greatness Comfort Remains Sacred Clean Deeds Worthy Knives Murderer Festivals Wipe Atonement God Is Dead

Book:The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

Source: The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

“The future remains uncertain and so it should, for it is the canvas upon which we paint our desires. Thus always the human condition faces a beautifully empty canvas. We possess only this moment in which to dedicate ourselves continuously to the sacred presence which we share and create.”

Should Humans Moments Faces Desire Journey Share Conditions Future Empty Remains Sacred Paint Present Moment Human Condition Canvas Uncertain Empty Canvas

Book:Children of Dune

Source: Children of Dune

“So I went to New York City to be born again. It was and remains easy for most Americans to go somewhere else and start anew. I wasn't like my parents. I didn't have any supposedly sacred piece of land or shoals of friends to leave behind. Nowhere has the number zero been of more philisophical value than in the United States.... and when the [train] plunged into a tunnel under New York City, with it's lining of pipes and wires, I was out of the womb and into the birth canal.”

“Writing is a futile attempt to preserve what disappears moment by moment. All that remains of my mother is what I remember and what I have written for and about her. Eventually that is all that will remain of [my husband] and me. Writing sometimes feels frivolous and sometimes sacred, but memory is one of my strongest muses. I serve her with my words. So long as people read, those we love survive however evanescently. As do we writers, saying with our life's work, Remember. Remember us. Remember me.”

“Love is a sacred mystery. To those who love, it remains forever wordless; But to those who do not love, it may be but a heartless jest.”

Life May Love Is Forever Mystery Remains Sacred Heartless Jest

Book:Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces

Source: Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces

“Fellow Americans, our duty is before us tonight. Let us go forward, determined to serve selflessly a vision of man with God, government for people, and humanity at peace. For it is now our task to tend and preserve, through the darkest and coldest nights, that "sacred fire of liberty" that President Washington spoke of two centuries ago, a fire that tonight remains a beacon to all oppressed of the world, shining forth from this kindly, pleasant, greening land we call America.”

Source: Ronald Reagan

“For people raised and programmed on the patriarchal religions of today, religions that affect even the most secular aspects of our society, perhaps there remains a lingering, almost innate memory of sacred shrines and temples tended by priestesses who served in the religion of the original supreme deity. In the beginning, people prayed to the Creatress of Life, the Mistress of Heaven. At the very dawn of religion, God was a woman. Do you remember?”

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Book:When God Was A Woman

Source: When God Was A Woman

“I've read all the books but one Only remains sacred: this Volume of wonders, open Always before my eyes.”

Book Eye Spirit Religion Spirituality Wonder Garden Remains Sacred Awe Volume

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems