The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.
-Avicenna
The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.
-Avicenna
I am a human and I will only live a life which does credit to humans. I have been blessed with beautiful human form, a sharp intellect and a sensitive heart. How do I activate these gifts? Blessed with a priceless life, why should I not fit it with compassion for all beings?
Beauty is about being comfortable in your own skin. It's about knowing and accepting who you are
-Ellen DeGeneres
Decline starts with the replacement of dreams with memories and ends with the replacement of memories with other memories.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Don’t confuse the teacher with the lesson, the ritual with the ecstasy, the transmitter of the symbol with the symbol itself.
We can never obtain peace in the world, if we neglect the inner world and don’t make peace with ourselves. World peace must develop out of inner peace.
Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.
-Winston S. Churchill