“Religion is as healthy and normal as life itself.”
Charles Fletcher Dole (1845–1927) Unitarian minister, speaker, and writer
The Coming Religion (1910).
Source: Cold Days
“Religion is as healthy and normal as life itself.”
Charles Fletcher Dole (1845–1927) Unitarian minister, speaker, and writer
The Coming Religion (1910).
“A perfectly normal person is rare in our civilization.”
Karen Horney (1885–1952) American-German psychoanalyst
Aldo Leopold (1887–1948) American writer and scientist
"Planning for Wildlife" [1941]; Published in For the Health of the Land, J. Baird Callicott and Eric T. Freyfogle (eds.), 1999, p. 197.
1940s
“The rocket worked perfectly, except for landing on the wrong planet.”
Wernher von Braun (1912–1977) German, later an American, aerospace engineer and space architect
Remark to a colleague after the first V-2 rocket hit London (September 1944), as quoted in Apollo in Perspective : Spaceflight Then and Now (1999) by Jonathan Allday, p. 85
“Siblings: children of the same parents, each of whom is perfectly normal until they get together.”
Sam Levenson (1911–1980) American journalist
Karen Demirchyan (1932–1999) Soviet politician
June 10, 1999. Quoted in "New Armenian speaker emphasizes human factor" - BBC Archive.
Colin Wilson (1931–2013) author
Source: The Black Room (1975), p. 20
Context: All men are stuck in a kind of fog. They're surrounded by a wall of fog. They think this is perfectly normal, but it's not. It means that since they can't see much beyond their own little situation, they tend to vegetate. They need some immediate stimulus to keep them alert.
Giuseppe Lazzarotto (1942) Roman Catholic archbishop
Vatican Nuncio in Holy Land appeals for dialogue to end Israel-Gaza conflict http://www.archivioradiovaticana.va/storico/2014/07/21/vatican_nuncio_in_holy_land_appeals_for_dialogue_to_end_israel-gaza/en-1103193 (21 July 2014)
“Everyone and everything is doing its job perfectly—no mistake.”
Byron Katie (1942) American spiritual writer
Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life (2002)