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Grendel's Laundry List: Readings for a Blue Monday
“I hear noises which others don’t hear and which disturb for me the music of the spheres, which others don’t hear either.
Many share my views with me. But I don’t share them with them.”
Karl Kraus
“When people can no longer hear a man thinking, he must speak. As soon as he reaches a point where he can again presuppose thoughts of the same nature as his, he must stop speaking.”
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
“The wisest of the Ancients consider’d what is not too Explicit as the fittest for Instruction, because it rouzes the faculities to act.”
William Blake
"Believers talk of God as if they know “Him”—as if they have understanding—as if there was something to understand. God cannot be known. There’s nothing to know. If you understand, then it’s not God. "
Rabbi Ishmael Ben Sheba, The Atheist Kabbalah
“The deep says, ‘It is not in me;’ the sea says, ‘It is not with me.’ ”
The Book of Job
“God says, ‘Don’t be more merciful than I am.’ ”
Rabbi Yehudah Hechasid
“These are the stakes: To make a world in which all of God's children can live, or to go into the darkness. We must either love each other, or we must die.”
Lyndon Johnson, “Daisy” campaign ad, 1964
“In our hands, the hands of all of us, the world and life are placed like a host, ready to be charged with the divine. The mystery will be accomplished.”
Teilhard de Chardin
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