Rudolf Otto quotes

“Down below the broad, roaring waves of the sea break against the deep foundation of the rock. But high above the mountain, the sea, and the peaks of rock the eternal ornamentation blooms silently from the dark depths of the universe.”
-- Rudolf Otto

Source : Rudolf Otto (1996). “Autobiographical and Social Essays”, p.73, Walter de Gruyter

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“But aesthetics is not religion, and the origins of religion lie somewhere completely different. They lie anyway, these roses smell too sweet and the deep roar of the breaking waves is too splendid, to do justice to such weighty matters now.”
-- Rudolf Otto

Source : Rudolf Otto (1996). “Autobiographical and Social Essays”, p.73, Walter de Gruyter

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“The daemonic-divine object may appear to the mind an object of horror and dread, but at the same time it is no less something that allures with a potent charm, and the creature, who trembles before it, utterly cowed and cast down, has always at the same time the impulse to turn to it, nay even to make it somehow his own.”
-- Rudolf Otto

Source : Rudolf Otto (1959). “The Idea of the Holy”, p.25, Ravenio Books

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“That Krishna himself was a historical figure is indeed quite indubitable.”
-- Rudolf Otto

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“A child does not notice the greatness and the beauty of nature and the splendor of God in his works.”
-- Rudolf Otto

Source : Rudolf Otto (1996). “Autobiographical and Social Essays”, p.72, Walter de Gruyter

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“Think of negative speech as verbal pollution. And that's what I've been doing: visualizing insults and gossip as a dark cloud, maybe one with some sulfur dioxide. Once you've belched it out, you can't take it back. As grandma said, if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all. The interesting this is, the less often I vocalize my negative thoughts, the fewer negative thoughts I cook up in the first place.”

“There are five dark matters and five lamps. Love of this world is darkness, and the fear of Allaah is its lamp. Sin is darkness, and its lamp is repentance. The grave is darkness, and its lamp is 'none has the right to be worshipped but Allaah, and Muhammad is the messenger of Allaah.' The hereafter is darkness, and its lamp is the good deed. The Siraat is darkness, and its lamp is certainty of faith.”

“Death to a good man is but passing through a dark entry, out of one little dusky room of his Father's house into another that is fair and large, lightsome and glorious, and divinely entertaining.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 178, 1895.

“The light, the sky, the water, they were all things you looked *through* during the day. At night, they were things you looked *into*. You looked *into* the stars, you looked *into* dark rollers and the surprising platinum flash of their caps.”

Source : Adam Johnson (2012). “The Orphan Master's Son”, p.41, Random House

“Dark energy is incredibly strange, but actually it makes sense to me that it went unnoticed, because dark energy has no effect on daily life, or even inside our solar system.”

“When I was 6 years old, I was in a rock band that was horrible called 'Dead End.' The name kind of described us. People liked us; we would go and perform at coffee houses and stuff.”

“I don't think rock 'n roll is necessarily a young man's game. I think Neil Young is just as rock'n'roll now as he was in his 20s. I'd like to think we can still be edgy and challenging.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.”

“I think Lady Gaga is great and is changing pop music and bringing back a certain rock 'n' roll spirit, swagger to the game.”

“Being at sea is like watching the whole world in high-definition.”

Source : Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.88, Thomas Nelson Inc