"Distinctions drawn by the mind are not..." - Quote by Thomas Aquinas
Distinctions drawn by the mind are not necessarily equivalent to distinctions in reality.
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“Death is not the opposite of life, it is a part of life. A part we've not yet explored and thus do not understand and it if only natural to fear what we do not understand. But with the right attitude we can make life beautiful. With this same attitude, can death not be the same? We almost always see only what's wrong with other people and not what's wrong with us.”
“The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed.”
“Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.”
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“At last she shut the book sharply, lay back, and drew a deep breath, expressive of the wonder which always marks the transition from the imaginary world to the real world.”
“The Universe is a dream dreamed by a single dreamer where all the dream characters dream too.”
“There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity. Certain numbers were the same way and certain dates and these with the names of the places were all you could say and have them mean anything. Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the names of rivers, the numbers of regiments and the dates.”