There is a divinity within our breast. — Ovid Deus est in pectore nostro. Original text (Latin) Share this quote Post on X Facebook Download image Copy quote Copy link Share… Another quote → Topics Spirituality
Tis hard, I admit, yet virtue aims at what is hard, and gratitude for such a service will be all the greater.
Reason is Life's sole arbiter, the magic Laby'rinth's single clue:Worlds lie above, beyond its ken; what crosses it can ne'er be true. Richard Francis Burton The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1870)
In imitating the exemplary acts of a god or of a mythic hero, or simply by recounting their adventures, the man of an archaic society detaches himself from profane time and magically re-enters the Great Time, the sacred time. Mircea Eliade Myths, Dreams and Mysteries (1967)
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day. Thomas Jefferson