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In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagvat Geeta, since whose composition years of the gods have elapsed, and in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seem puny and trivial; and I doubt if that philosophy is not to be referred to a previous state of existence, so remote is its sublimity from our conceptions. I lay down the book and go to my well for water, and lo! there I meet the servant of the Bramin, priest of Brahma and Vishnu and Indra, who still sits in his temple on the Ganges reading the Vedas, or dwells at the root of a tree with his crust and water jug. I meet his servant come to draw water for his master, and our buckets as it were grate together in the same well. The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges.
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spiritual
philosophy
brahma
ganges
indra
vishnu
hinduism
sacred
reverence
priest
gods
intellect
respect
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Henry David Thoreau |
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History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes. { }
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history
free-government
humboldt
alexander-von-humboldt
priest
ignorance
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Thomas Jefferson |
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"But I'm not guilty," said K. "there's been a mistake. How is it even possible for someone to be guilty? We're all human beings here, one like the other." "That is true" said the priest "but that is how the guilty speak"
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human
life
human-condition
trial
priest
mistakes
guilty
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Franz Kafka |
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"That's when I have to ask him. "Can you really talk like that? Being holy and all?" "What? Because I'm a priest?" He finishes the dregs of his coffee. "Sure. God knows what's important."
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cussing
holy
holiness
language
priest
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Markus Zusak |
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I'm going to rub your faces in things you try to avoid. I don't find it strange that all you want to believe is only that which comforts you. How else do humans invent the traps which betray us into mediocrity? How else do we define cowardice?
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religion
priest
cowardice
mediocrity
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Frank Herbert |
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c5937c0
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This is the shade of difference: the door of the physician should never be shut, the door of the priest should always be open.
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kindness
love
priest
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Victor Hugo |
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d1fb23e
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At that moment I would have welcomed spider-rats nibbling on my toes about as much as the idea of chatting with a missionary priest.
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missionary
priest
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Dan Simmons |
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5bfc9dd
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"But della Rovere frowned and said, "Heed my warning, Guido Feltra. He's full of the devil, this son of the church."
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god
the-family
mario-puzo
priest
church
devil
evil
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Mario Puzo |
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People like mystery. They want nothing explained, because when things are explained then there is no hope left. I have seen folk dying and known there is nothing to be done, and I am asked to go because the priest will soon arrive with his dish covered by a cloth, and everyone prays for a miracle. It never happens. And the person dies and I get blamed, not God or the priest, but I!
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miracle
hope
priest
mystery
jews
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Bernard Cornwell |
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404eca4
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Father Hobbe, his cassock skirts hitched up to his waist, was fighting with a quarterstaff, ramming the pole into French faces. 'In the name of the Father,' he shouted, and a Frenchman reeled back with a pulped eye, 'and of the Son,' Father Hobbe snarled as he broke a man's nose, 'and of the Holy Ghost!
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quarterstaff
father-hobbe
priest
fighting
french
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Bernard Cornwell |
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Here we should quote especially those sections from Nietzsche's central morality-critical work The Genealogy of Morals that deal with their subject in a diction of Olympian clarity. In the decisive passage he discusses the practice forms of that life-denial or world-weariness which, according to Nietzsche, exemplifies the morphological circle of sick asceticisms in general: 'The ascetic [of the priestly-sick type] treats life as a wrong path on which one must walk backwards till one comes to the place where it starts; or he treats it as an error which one may, nay must, refute by action: for he demands that he should be followed; he enforces, where he can, his valuation of existence. What does this mean? Such a monstrous valuation is not an exceptional care, or a curiosity recorded in human history: it is one of the broadest and longest facts that exist. Reading from the vantage point of a distant star the capital letters of our earthly life would perchance lead to the conclusion that the earth was the truly ascetic planet, a den of discontented, arrogant and repulsive creature creatures, who never got rid of a deep disgust of themselves, of the world, of all life, and did themselves as much hurt as possible out of pleasure in hurting - presumably their one and only pleasure.
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priest
ascetics
friedrich-nietzsche
nietzsche
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Peter Sloterdijk |