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I believe in one God, and no more; and I hope for happiness beyond this life.
I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavouring to make our fellow-creatures happy.
But, lest it should be supposed that I believe many other things in addition to these, I shall, in the progress of this work, declare the things I do not believe, and my reasons for not believing them.
I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish Church, by the Roman Church, by the Greek Church, by the Turkish Church, by the Protestant Church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church.
All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.
I do not mean by this declaration to condemn those who believe otherwise; they have the same right to their belief as I have to mine. But it is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself.

Thomas Paine

- Move body
- Still mind

The exhalation of carbon dioxide resulting from photosynthesis, like a sight of satisfaction that goes on for hours; like the lowest note on a stringed instrument, bowed all the way, that vibrates to the limits of music, of pure sound, of silence.

Francis Ponge

Nel senso antico e primitivo la musica non era una scienza particolare, ma comprendeva tutto ciò che riferivasi alle muse, ossia ogni scienza ed arte atta a svegliare l’ idea di cosa gradevole e bene ordinata. Oggi si applica specialmente all’ Arte di esprimere gl’ interni sentimenti mediante suoni modulati.

I have wept three times in my life. Once, when my first opera failed. Once again, the first time I heard Paganini play the violin. And once, when a truffled turkey fell overboard at a boating picnic.

Rossini

Step out of
your mind, watch
yourself from afar
very far … Can
you see? The
universe is always
right, there can
be no wrong

Everything is perfect

Over time, his hearing loss became profound: there is a well-attested story that, at the end of the premiere of his Ninth Symphony, he had to be turned around to see the tumultuous applause of the audience; hearing nothing, he wept.

Beethoven

They say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.

Banksy