“Faith does not first ask what the bread is made of, but eats it. It does not analyze the components of the living stream, but with joy draws water from the " wells of salvation."”
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 230.
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“I want to ask America: What does crow taste like? Because y'all are eating it.”
Shannon Sharpe (1968) Player of American football
To doubters of the Baltimore Ravens' chances to defeat the Oakland Raiders in the 2000 AFC Championship Game Cimini, Rich. "Defense All The Rave Shackles Raiders In Super Showing," Daily News (New York City), Monday, January 15, 2001. http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/news/2001/01/15/2001-01-15_defense_all_the_rave_shackle.html
“Parsifal does not ask in the first act: What is the Graal, Parsifal asks, Who is the Graal?”
Theodor Reuss (1855–1923) German singer
II. Main Part : The Unveiling of the Secret.
Parsifal and the Secret of the Graal Unveiled (1914)
Context: Now it remains only to show what the conception grace of the highest miracle, seeks in the greatest holy heater with last love-meal in sacred vessel flowing as longed for by the Knights. What in short — is the Graal!
But Parsifal does not ask in the first act: What is the Graal, Parsifal asks, Who is the Graal? — and why does Wagner not have Parsifal say: What is the Graal? — Here lies hidden a profound mystery! So Parsifal asks (with underlying intent of the author): Who is the Graal? — and Gurnemanz answers quite revealingly: That one does not say!
“… Man lives by affirmation even more than he does by bread.”
Victor Hugo book Les Misérables
Source: Les Misérables
Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican scholastic philosopher of the Roman Catholic Church
Sacris Solemniis Juncta Sint Gaudia (Matins hymn for Corpus Christi), stanza 6 (Panis Angelicus)
Context: Thus Angels' Bread is made
The Bread of man today:
The Living Bread from Heaven
With figures doth away:
O wondrous gift indeed!
The poor and lowly may
Upon their Lord and Master feed.
Robert Ley (1890–1945) Nazi politician
Speech given on November 3, 1936. Quoted in Wir alle helfen dem Führer "Schicksal — ich glaube!" (Munich: Zentralverlag der NSDAP, 1937), pages 103-114
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
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Daybreak — Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality (1881)
“Man does not live by bread alone, nor guns, paperwork, theses, naked practicalities.”
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