Rudolf Otto quotes
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“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 OttoSource : 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 OttoSource : 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 OttoSource : 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.”
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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 OttoSource : Rudolf Otto (1996). “Autobiographical and Social Essays”, p.72, Walter de Gruyter
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Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 178, 1895.
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Source : Adam Johnson (2012). “The Orphan Master's Son”, p.41, Random House
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“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
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