RAW > RAW's Quotes

“Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.”
― Mae West

“The only time self-deceit should be entered into is when it’s fun, and with awareness.”
― Anton Szandor LaVey, The Secret Life of a Satanist: The Authorized Biography of Anton LaVey

“Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.”
― Doug Wright, Quills

“Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst...They are for nothing but to inspire.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, The American Scholar: Self-Reliance, Compensation

“I'd rather people feel a film before understanding it.”
― Robert Bresson

“فالحياة رغم كل آلامها ومتاعبها ليست أهلًا للازدراء”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“You may think that grown-ups create children. The reality is that children create grown-ups. They become their own person, and so do you. Children give so much more than they take.”
― John Medina, Brain Rules for Baby: How to Raise a Smart and Happy Child from Zero to Five

“إذا أردنا أن نمنع الشر فعلينا أن نفتح له المجال”
― William Blake

“A thing of beauty is a joy forever.”
― John Keats, Endymion: A Poetic Romance

“Remember there's no such thing
as a small act of kindness.
Every act creates a ripple effect
with no logical end.”
― Scott Adams

“‏أود أن اقدم شُكري الى الحُب، الذي يُتيح لنا أن نرى الاخرين كما يراهُم الله”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“God has provided enough evidence in this life to convince anyone willing to believe, yet he has also left some ambiguity so as not to compel the unwilling.”
― Norman L. Geisler, I Don't Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist

“When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best -- that is inspiration.”
― Robert Bresson

“‏إلهي اجعلني صافياً كالماء وعالياً كالسماء، أبعد الوحل عن طرق تفكيري .. إلهي حرِّرني مِنِّي.”
― fernando pessoa

“That which is pleasing to the eye gives joy, and joy gives strength, and strength gives life.”
― Anton Szandor LaVey

“In order to change an existing paradigm you do not struggle to try and change the problematic model. You create a new model and make the old one obsolete.”
― Buckminster R. Fuller

“‏أنا لست بحاجة إلى الكلام
أو ادعاء امتيازات زائفة،
أولئك المحيطون بي يعرفونني جيدا،
يعرفون حتى بلادتي وضعفي
فالحصول على أعلى شيء،
مما قد تمنحه لنا السماء
ليس المهابة أو الانتصارات
ولكن ببساطة أن نكون مقبولين
كجزء من حقيقة لا يمكن نكرانها
مثل الصخور والأشجار”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“الاستعداد: ألا تفكر في إمكانية انتصارك كإمكانية وحيدة”
― ضيف فهد

“ما أهون الشعرة التي تفصل بين الأشياء”
― مليكة أوفقير, ‫السَّجينة‬

“Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.”
― Simone Weil, Lectures on Philosophy

“Whatever variety evolution brings forth... Every new dimension of world-response...means another modality for God's trying out his hidden essence and discovering himself through the surprises of world-adventure...the heightening pitch and passion of life that go with the twin rise of perception and motility in animals. The ever more sharpened keenness of appetite and fear, pleasure and pain, triumph and anguish, love and even cruelty - their very edge is the deity's gain. Their countless, yet never blunted incidence - hence the necessity of death and new birth - supplies the tempered essence from which the Godhead reconstitutes itself. All this, evolution provides in the mere lavishness of its play and sternness of its spur. Its creatures, by merely fulfilling themselves in pursuit of their lives, vindicate the divine venture. Even their suffering deepens the fullness of the symphony. Thus, this side of good and evil, God cannot lose in the great evolutionary game. ”
― Hans Jonas

“All things, by desiring their own perfection, desire God Himself.”
― St Thomas Aquinas

“One has no right to love or hate anything if one has not acquired a thorough knowledge of its nature. Great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you know it but little you will be able to love it only a little or not at all.”
― Leonardo DaVinci

“Is the asset growing or the unit of account shrinking?”
― Matt Huang

“Your very natural and clear childlike laughter that charms the air,”
― Stéphane Mallarmé, Un Coup de Dés & Other Poems

“Height doesn't scare you, your desire to jump does.”
― Kpaxs

“السرقة وضع الشيء في غير موضعه”
― anonymous

“I must say that I have rarely seen a community come together in order to meet a common need in a manner as beautiful as that of a handful of birds at a feeder.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Shameful confession, one of my own Chelas (or so it is rather incredibly reported to me) said recently: "Self-discipline is a form of Restriction." (That, you remember, is "The word of Sin.") Of all the utter rubbish! (Anyhow, he was a "centre of pestilence" for discussing the Book at all.) About 90 percent of Thelema, at a guess, is nothing but self-discipline. One is only allowed to do anything and everything so as to have more scope for exercising that virtue.

Concentrate on "Thou hast no right but to do thy will." The point is that any possible act is to be performed if it is a necessary factor in that Equation of your Will. Any act that is not such a factor, however harmless, noble, virtuous or what not, is at the best a waste of energy. But there are no artificial barriers on any type of act in general. The standard of conduct has one single touchstone. There may be—there will be—every kind of difficulty in determining whether, by this standard, any given act is 'right' or 'wrong'; but there should be no confusion. No act is righteous in itself, but only in reference to the True Will of the person who proposes to perform it. This is the Doctrine of Relativity applied to the moral sphere.”
― Aleister Crowley, Magick Without Tears