Quotes with rituals

  • Under Confucianism, the use of precisely measured court music, prescribed steps, actions, and phrases all added up to an extremely complex system of rituals, each used for a particular purpose at a particular time.

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  • Hans Magnus Enzensberger A pathological business, writing, don't you think? Just look what a writer actually does: all that unnatural tense squatting and hunching, all those rituals: pathological!
    Hans Magnus Enzensberger
    German author, poet, translator and editor (1929 - )
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  • Caroline Knapp Fall in love with a dog, and in many ways you enter a new orbit, a universe that features not just new colors but new rituals, new rules, a new way of experiencing attachment.
    Caroline Knapp
    American writer and columnist
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  • Camille Paglia Human life began in flight and fear. Religion rose from rituals of propitiation, spells to lull the punishing elements.
    Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Arianna Huffington Liberation is an ever shifting horizon, a total ideology that can never fulfill its promises. It has the therapeutic quality of providing emotionally charged rituals of solidarity in hatred - it is the amphetamine of its believers.
    Arianna Huffington
    Greek-American author, syndicated columnist, and businesswoman (1950 - )
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  • John Lennon Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.
    John Lennon
    British musician (1940 - 1980)
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  • Benjamin Hoff Under Confucianism, the use of precisely measured court music, prescribed steps, actions, and phrases all added up to an extremely complex system of rituals, each used for a particular purpose at a particular time.
    Benjamin Hoff
    American author (1946 - )
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