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Mah
y
na Buddhist texts
yna Buddhist texts1
Where there is no perception, appellation, conception, or conventional expression, there one speaks of "perfect wisdom".
Form is emptiness and the very emptiness is form; emptiness does not differ from form, nor does form differ from emptiness; whatever is form, that is emptiness, whatever is emptiness, that is form.
Where there is no perception, appellation, conception, or conventional expression, there one speaks of "perfect wisdom".
Perfect Wisdom in 8,000 Lines
(
c.
100
bc
–100
ad
) ch. 7, v. 177
Form is emptiness and the very emptiness is form; emptiness does not differ from form, nor does form differ from emptiness; whatever is form, that is emptiness, whatever is emptiness, that is form.
Heart Sutra
(4th century
ad
) v. 3
Mahler, Gustav
1860–1911
1860–1911
1
Fortissimo at last!
on seeing Niagara Falls
The symphony must be like the world. It must embrace everything.
Fortissimo at last!
on seeing Niagara Falls
K. Blaukopf
Gustav Mahler
(1973) ch. 8
The symphony must be like the world. It must embrace everything.
remark to Sibelius, Helsinki, 1907
Mailer, Norman
1923–
1923–
1
So we think of Marilyn who was every man's love affair with America, Marilyn Monroe who was blonde and beautiful and had a sweet little rinky-dink of a voice and all the cleanliness of all the clean American backyards.
All the security around the American president is just to make sure the man who shoots him gets caught.
So we think of Marilyn who was every man's love affair with America, Marilyn Monroe who was blonde and beautiful and had a sweet little rinky-dink of a voice and all the cleanliness of all the clean American backyards.
Marilyn
(1973)
All the security around the American president is just to make sure the man who shoots him gets caught.
in
Sunday Telegraph
4 March 1990
Maimonides
(
Moses ben Maimon
) 1135–1204
(
Moses ben Maimon
) 1135–1204
1
When I find the road narrow, and can see no other way of teaching a well established truth except by pleasing one intelligent man and displeasing ten thousand fools—I prefer to address myself to the man.
When I find the road narrow, and can see no other way of teaching a well established truth except by pleasing one intelligent man and displeasing ten thousand fools—I prefer to address myself to the man.
The Guide for the Perplexed
, introduction
Maistre, Joseph de
1753–1821
1753–1821
1
Toute nation a le gouvernement qu'elle mérite.Every country has the government it deserves.
Toute nation a le gouvernement qu'elle mérite.Every country has the government it deserves.
Lettres et Opuscules Inédits
(1851) vol. 1, letter 53 (15 August 1811)
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