“Thinking which displaces, or otherwise defines, the sacred has been called atheistic, and that philosophy which does not place it here or there, like a thing, but at the joining of things and words, will always be exposed to this reproach without ever being touched by it.” ThinkingDoeHas BeensPhilosophySacredTouchedExposedJoiningReproachAtheistic Book:In Praise of Philosophy and Other Essays Source: In Praise of Philosophy and Other Essays
“Things sacred should not only be touched with the hands, but unviolated in thought. [Lat., Res sacros non modo manibus attingi, sed ne cogitatione quidem violari fas fuit.]” ShouldHandsReligionSacredTouched Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the Covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment.” MenHumansLooksAgeHe ManConstitutionSacredTouchedReverenceAmendmentsCovenantArkAmending The ConstitutionSanctimonious Author:Thomas Jefferson
“Some men look at Constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them, like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment. I knew that age well; I belonged to and labored with it. It deserved well of its country. It was very like the present, but without the experience of the present; and forty years of experience in Government is worth a century of book-reading; and this they would say themselves, were they to rise from the dead.” MenYearsHumansWellsLooksBookCountryGovernmentAgeReadingCenturyHe ManConstitutionSacredTouchedFortyReverenceAmendmentsBook ReadingCovenantArkYears Of ExperienceSanctimonious Author:Thomas Jefferson
“On many occasions when I am dancing I've felt touched by something sacred. In those moments, I felt my spirit soar and become one with everything that exists !” MomentsSpiritFeltSacredDancingDanceOccasionsTouchedSoarGreat DanceDance Is Life Author:Michael Jackson
“When we build ... let it not be for present delights nor for present use alone. Let it be such work as our descendants will thank us for, and let us think ... that a time is to come when these stones will be held sacred because our hands have touched them, and that men will say as they look upon the labor, and the wrought substance of them, See! This our fathers did for us!” ThinkingMenLooksUseHandsFatherFutureLaborStonesSacredDelightArchitectureSubstanceLook UpTouchedOur FatherDescendantsThank U Book:Selections and Essays Source: Selections and Essays
“Consciousness expresses itself through creation. This world we live in is the dance of the creator. Dancers come and go in the twinkling of an eye but the dance lives on. On many an occasion when I am dancing, I have felt touched by something sacred.In those moments, I felt my spirit soar and become one with everything that exists.” WorldMomentsEyeSpiritFeltConsciousnessCreationThis WorldSacredDancingDanceCreatorOccasionsDancerTouchedSoarComes And GoesTwinklingDance Life Author:Michael Jackson
“Something sacred, that's it. We ought to be able to say that such and such a painting is as it is, with its capacity for power, because it is "touched by God."” AblePowerPaintingOughtCapacitySacredTouched Author:Pablo Picasso