Sari al-Saqati (772–867) Iraqi sufi
Source: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam, p. 43
2016, Hajj hijacked by oppressors, Muslims should reconsider management of Hajj (September 2015)
Sari al-Saqati (772–867) Iraqi sufi
Source: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam, p. 43
“An intelligent society would have made of them people like everybody else!”
Ravachol (1859–1892) French anarchist
Une société intelligente en aurait fait des gens comme tout le monde!
Trial statement
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809–1894) Poet, essayist, physician
The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858)
“I don't have a sense of sanctuary. I don't have a place where I think I can go.”
John Leonard (1939–2008) American critic, writer, and commentator
Interview with Bill Moyers, Now, PBS (28 November 2003)
Context: I don't have a sense of sanctuary. I don't have a place where I think I can go. I once went to the famous Kyoto temple with the Zen garden, the gravel, the little mounds and it's, you know, it's been pictured over and over and over again. And what they don't tell you is that this little acre or some acre of serenity is surrounded by millions of people taking pictures.
So it sounds like a storm of mosquitoes constantly. And it never stops. And there's no serenity. And so not even in Japan can I find sanctuary.
“For ever singing as they shine,
The hand that made us is divine.”
Joseph Addison (1672–1719) politician, writer and playwright
Ode.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Paul Cézanne (1839–1906) French painter
Quote from a conversation with Vollard, in the studio of Cézanne, in Aix, 1896; as quoted in Cezanne, by Ambroise Vollard, Dover publications Inc. New York, 1984, p. 67
Quotes of Paul Cezanne, 1880s - 1890s
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
Remark to scientist Herman Francis Mark
1940s, Only Then Shall We Find Courage (1946)
Neil Gaiman book Neverwhere
Source: Neverwhere (1996), Chapter 10; Gaiman here references the famous statement of Isaac Asimov from "Foundation", Astounding Science-Fiction (May 1942)