Paradise Quotes - Page 31

• Reason and religion cannot coexist together. If reason exists, then paradise, prophets and all other religiuous illusions disappear.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Together, Illusion, Reason

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• I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Description, Sensible, Persons

  "Persian Letters" by Baron de Montesquieu, No. 125, 1721.

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• Whatever life after death is, being with Christ which is far better, being in Paradise like the thief, etc, the many rooms where we go immediately... that is the temporary place. The ultimate life after life after death is the resurrection in God's new world.

  N. T. Wright

  Rooms, Etc, Thieves

  Interview with Trevin Wax, blogs.thegospelcoalition.org. November 19, 2007.

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• ...the fall of man in paradise has always been followed by his expulsion.

  Adolf Hitler

  Fall, Men, Expulsion

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Man is the only animal who does not feel at home in nature, who can feel evicted from paradise, the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem that he has to solve and from which he cannot escape. He cannot go back to the prehuman state of harmony with nature, and he does not know where he will arrive if he goes forward. Man's existential contradiction results in a state of constant disequilibrium. This disequilibrium distinguishes him from the animal, which lives, as it were, in harmony with nature.

  Erich Fromm

  Home, Animal, Men

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness”, p.373, Open Road Media

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• All the wonders of the Greek civilization heaped together are less wonderful than the single book of Psalms. Greece had all that this world could give her; but the flowers of Paradise blossomed in Palestine alone.

  William E. Gladstone

  Flower, Book, Civilization

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• The peak of empathogens can be characterised as earthly paradise in comparison to the heavenly paradise of LSD and hallucinogens of that category.

  Claudio Naranjo

  Hallucinogens, Lsd, Categories

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• The claim of alternative practitioners to not treat disease labels but the whole patient...allows alternative practitioners to live in a fool's paradise of quackery where they believe themselves to be protected from any challenges and demands for evidence.

  Edzard Ernst

  Believe, Challenges, Alternatives

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• When you take away the violence from the market, even it starts shifting into something else - not exactly paradise, but it doesn't become the market in the way we see it now.

  David Graeber

  Way, Shifting, Violence

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• At present the globe goes with a shattered constitution in its orbit.... No doubt the simple powers of nature, properly directed by man, would make it healthy and a paradise; as the laws of man's own constitution but wait to be obeyed, to restore him to health and happiness.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Health, Simple, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Selected Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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• The only possible paradises are those we have lost

  Marcel Proust

  Lost

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• The terrible, tragic fallacy of the last hundred years has been to think that all man's troubles are due to his environment, and that to change the man you have nothing to do but change his environment. That is a tragic fallacy. It overlooks the fact that it was in Paradise that man fell.

  Martyn Lloyd-Jones

  Change, Men, Thinking

  David Martyn Lloyd-Jones (1959). “Studies in the Sermon on the Mount”

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• Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to create an earthly paradise. Who could expect that? But, if you make life ever so little better, you will have done splendidly, and your lives will have been worthwhile.
  Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.

  Roger Babson

  Character, Judgement, Trying

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• Today we are living in an intellectual and technological paradise and a moral and social nightmare because the intellectual level of evolution, in its struggle to become free of the social level, has ignored the social level's role in keeping the biological level under control.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Struggle, Intellectual, Roles

  Robert M. Pirsig (1991). “LILA An Inquriry into Morals”

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• Meditation opens the mind to the greatest mystery that takes place daily and hourly; it widens the heart so that it may feel the eternity of time and infinity of space in every throb; it gives us a life within the world as if we were moving about in paradise.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Moving, Heart, Space

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• If I could, I'd live in the nude, like Eve in paradise.

  Shakira

  If I Could, Ifs

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• Poetry, Painting & Music, the three Powers in man of conversing with Paradise, which the flood did not sweep away.

  William Blake

  Men, Three, Painting

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.559, Univ of California Press

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• Delhi is definitely a foodie's paradise.

  Esha Gupta

  Delhi

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• Doubtless, we are as slow to conceive of Paradise as of Heaven, of a perfect natural as of a perfect spiritual world. We see how past ages have loitered and erred. "Is perhaps our generation free from irrationality and error? Have we perhaps reached now the summit of human wisdom, and need no more to look out for mental or physical improvement?" Undoubtedly, we are never so visionary as to be prepared for what the next hour may bring forth.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Spiritual, Past, Errors

  Henry David Thoreau (2002). “The Essays of Henry D. Thoreau: Selected and Edited by Lewis Hyde”, p.122, North Point Press

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• A big island of library, in the middle of an ocean, away from all the fools of the world, would this place not be a real paradise?

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Real, Ocean, Islands

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• As a true patriot, I should be ashamed to think that Adam in paradise was more favorably situated on the whole than the backwoodsman in this country.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Country, Thinking, America

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walking: Top Essays”, p.9, 谷月社

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• If I see any politician or a priest or an imam or a rabbi in the Paradise, I will give up believing in God!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Giving Up, Believe, Politician

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• Paradise can take the form of anything! It can be a flower or it can be a word or it can just be a sincere smile!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Flower, Sincere, Form

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• The Sabbath is the link between the paradise which has passed away and the paradise which is yet to come.

  Andrew Wylie

  Links, Passed Away, Sabbath

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• When I got into art school, I thought it was paradise. I wanted to be an artist so much that I was really driven and nothing could stop me.

  Sean Scully

  Art, School, Driven

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