Truth has been relegated to subjectivity; beauty has been subjugated to the beholder; and as millions are idiotized night after night, a global commune has been constructed with the arts enjoying a totalitarian rule.
Ravi ZachariasRead
To be born in India is to arrive into the world swimming in religion.
Interpretation
This quote highlights the deep-rooted presence of religion in Indian culture and identity.
Ravi Zacharias expresses the idea that being born in India inherently immerses one into a culture rich with religious traditions and beliefs. Religion plays a fundamental role in shaping the experiences, values, and worldview of individuals in India, making it an intrinsic aspect of their existence from birth.
In practice
In a discussion about multiculturalism, this quote emphasizes the significance of religion in Indian society.
Truth has been relegated to subjectivity; beauty has been subjugated to the beholder; and as millions are idiotized night after night, a global commune has been constructed with the arts enjoying a totalitarian rule.
I am convinced that all our attempts to change the letter of the law and to reeducate people have been, and are, merely band-aid solutions for a fatal hemorrhage. The system will never change because our starting point is flawed. The secular view of man can neither give the grandeur that God alone can give, nor can it see the evil within the human heart that God alone can reveal and cure, for atheism implicitly denudes each individual of the grand image God has imprinted upon His creation.
Does that not sound odd to you? When God decides who should live or die, he is immoral, When you decide who should live or die, it's your moral right. There was a pin-drop silence.
Everyone - pantheist, atheist, skeptic, polytheist - has to answer these questions: 'Where did I come from? What is life's meaning? How do I define right from wrong and what happens to me when I die?' Those are the fulcrum points of our existence.
It is the resurrection that makes Good Friday good.
You cannot really have the world and hold on to it. It is all too temporary and the more you try to hold on to it, the more it actually holds you. By contrast, the more you hold on to the true and the good, the more you are free to really live.
A finite world can support only a finite population; therefore, population growth must eventually equal zero.
The complexity of the connection between the world of perception and the world of physics does not preclude that such a connection can be shown to exist at any time.
How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.
There is perhaps no better a demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world.
Truly, nothing in the world has so occupied my thoughts as this I, this riddle, the fact I am alive, that I am separated and isolated from all others, that I am Siddhartha! And about nothing in the world do I know less about than me, about Siddhartha!
Hours later the blank sheet still stared at me, and I beat my fist against the desk in fury and fustration, striking it so hard my hand bled. That is how heavy a secret can become. It can make blood flow easier than ink.
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