Temples Quotes
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We have built no national temples but the Capitol; we consult no common oracle but the Constitution.
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More Temples Quotes
Excessively precise economic analysis can lead to assessing everything in terms of its easily measurable melt value – the value that thieves get from stealing copper wiring from isolated houses, that vandals got from tearing down Greek temples for the lead joints holding the marble blocks together, that shortsighted timber companies get from liquidating their forests. The standard to insist on is live value. What is something worth when it's working?
stewart brand— Whole Earth Discipline (2009), page 277.
Her sunny locks Hang on her temples like a golden fleece.
— Bassanio, scene i
As one of India ’s largest and most sacred pilgrimage centers, Benares (Varanasi) has been revered for centuries by Hindus , Muslims , Buddhists , and Jains , millions of whom come to visit its innumerable temples and shrines and come to bathe along a three-mile stretch of steps leading to the Holy Ganga (Ganges) River. Whether coming for salvation, prosperity, or healing, most of these pilgrims have sought some form of ritual purification – a means of unloading their troubles and sins upon stars and holy men, the river Ganga, and the many sacred tanks fed by her springs and tributaries.
— Ronald L. Barrett, in p.1 (Aghor Medicine: Pollution, Death, and Healing in Northern India (3 February 2008)])
The groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave, And spread the roof above them, ere he framed The lofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems; in the darkling wood, Amidst the cool and silence, he knelt down And offered to the Mightiest solemn thanks And supplication.
william cullen bryant— William Cullen Bryant, A Forest Hymn.
The Ancients, having taken into consideration the rigorous construction of the human body, elaborated all their works, as especially their holy temples, according to these proportions; for they found here the two principal figures without which no project is possible: the perfection of the circle, the principle of all regular bodies, and the equilateral square.
luca pacioli— From the book De divina proportione
Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment. To such an extent indeed that one day, finding myself at the deathbed of a woman who had been and still was very dear to me, I caught myself in the act of focusing on her temples and automatically analyzing the succession of appropriately graded colors which death was imposing on her motionless face.
Claude Monet— As quoted in Claude Monet: Les Nymphéas (1926) by Georges Clemenceau, Ch. 2.
A prowde hert in a beggers brest, A fowle visage with gay temples of atyre, Horrible othes with an holy prist, A justice of juges to selle and lete to hyre, A knave to comande and have an empire, To yeve a jugement of that never was wrought, To preche of pees and sette eche man on fyre, It may wele ryme but it accordith nought.
john lydgate— "On Inconstancy", line 36.
Yes, while I stood and gazed, my temples bare, And shot my being through earth, sea, and air, Possessing all things with intensest love, O Liberty! my spirit felt thee there.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge— France, An Ode. v.
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
— Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama, in The Dalai Lama : A Policy of Kindness (1990), "Kindness and Compassion", p. 52
By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we quote. We quote not only books and proverbs, but arts, sciences, religion, customs, and laws; nay, we quote temples and houses, tables and chairs by imitation.
ralph waldo emerson— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims (1876), Quotation and Originality.
Modern Guwahati dates back to the British occupation of Assam in 1826 and it is from this date the city came to have due importance. Except few temples, an earthen fort and tanks, there are hardly any medieval remnants and ruins in Guwahati.
— Pabitra Giri, in "Guwahati: The Gateway to the East", p.27
The palace and open space around it are surrounded by walls and still give a sense that it was once a fort. In the fort, we find several Hindu temples, each of which belongs to different sect…The usual composition of the temples within the Mysore fort compound gIves the impression of a spatial configuration in which the king is at the centre of a religious domain as the protector of his people and dharma (the moral order) within his kingdom.
Aya Ikegame— Princely India Re-imagined: A Historical Anthropology of Mysore from 1799 to Present (p. 120)
During the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British occupation of Srinagar, colonial-style colleges, hospitals, and courts were constructed. In the downtown area of the city are less well-known residences, mosques, temples, hammams , and bazaars constructed in the local vernacular of timber and masonry architecture. Together, these buildings represent an unusually intact pre-modern urban environment.
— WMF, in "Srinagar Heritage Zone"
The new form of Odissi had its old historic roots yet it had changed to conform to the changing cultural trends of the people during the 1950s-60s. Earlier it was bound within the religious doors of the Hindu temples but upon its revival it became a more public or secular form of art and was performed on stage world wide.
— In "Dance and Architecture: Body, Form, Space and Transformation", p.25
Make an eternal spring;Give life to this dark world which lieth dead.Spread forth thy golden hairIn larger locks than thou wast wont before,And emperor-like decoreWith diadem of pearl thy temples fair.
drummond, william, of hawthornden— "Phoebus Arise".
Elizabeth’s gaze roamed over the V of his shoulders, his strong arms, his black hair silvering at the temples. Yum.
lis wiehl— p. 27 (Heart of Ice A Triple Threat Novel with April Henry (Thomas Nelson))
"With the dried blood stiff on my temples I climbed the hill, cursing the satanic way of men, yet knowing myself vile, for they had not known what they were doing, but I betrayed an innocent; and the tears— weak, whiskey tears— would not wash from my brow the blood of a little brother."
— The Village Book (1930) - after a killing of a badger by villagers.
... nevertheless, as I never tire of pointing out to my students in Cambridge, chimpanzees do not play the piano, drink dry martinis, or erect temples to glorify the Creator.
simon conway morris— p.151 (The Crucible of Creation (1998))
How often our bosom swells and our temples throb to a thought which proves itself not to be worth anything but for the exaltation we feel while the swelling and throbbing are going on, which after all is something.
henry s. haskins— p. 139 (Meditations in Wall Street (1940))
Monotheistic religions alone furnish the spectacle of religious wars, religious persecutions, heretical tribunals, that breaking of idols and destruction of images of the gods, that razing of Indian temples and Egyptian colossi, which had looked on the sun 3,000 years: just because a jealous god had said, 'Thou shalt make no graven image.'
Arthur Schopenhauer— Studies in Pessimism, on Human Nature, and Religion: A Dialogue, Etc
Monotheistic religions alone furnish the spectacle of religious wars, religious persecutions, heretical tribunals, that breaking of idols and destruction of images of the gods, that razing of Indian temples and Egyptian colossi, which had looked on the sun 3,000 years: just because a jealous god had said, 'Thou shalt make no graven image.'
Arthur Schopenhauer— Arthur Schopenhauer, On Religion.
The most noticeable of the buildings here are the Diwan-i-Khas, Diwan-i-Aam, the Astronomical Observatory and the temples of Brajanandji and Anand Krishnaji.
— In p.206 (A History of Jaipur: C. 1503-1938)
When the dancers had only the static sculptures of the temples to recreate Odissi, their task was to design the movement from stance A to stance B in a way designing the in-between space or the transition from one gesture to another, which can be likened to the process of moving through a temple or going down a stepped well and experiencing the different threshold to reach the destination.
— In "Dance and Architecture: Body, Form, Space and Transformation", p.25
There comes Emerson first, whose rich words, every one, Are like gold nails in temples to hang trophies on.
james russell lowell— James Russell Lowell, A Fable for Critics
This Court is forever adding new stories to the temples of constitutional law, and the temples have a way of collapsing when one story too many is added.
— Justice Robert H. Jackson, Douglas v. Jeannette, 319 U.S. 157, 181 (1943).
For we must not build temples according to the same rules to all gods alike, since the performance of the sacred rites varies with the various gods.
— Chapter VIII, Sec. 6 (Book IV)
All books grow homilies by time; they are temples, at once, and Landmarks.
Lytton— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, The Souls of Books, Stanza 4, line 1.
