The Quote/RL story thread

[K. Ishitar]

Woo so yeah this thread is devoted to the things that are great


A. Quotes (whether by famous or by anyone)

B. RL Stories(funny or sad)

If you have a great quote to put down or a funny rl story or whatnot post it.

One quote that kinda opens my mind is something from Mirandola's On the Dignity of Man.

It's an essay about humanism and Mirandola somehow finds this thing that Muhammed(pbuh) says

Muhammed also said frequently, "Those who deviate from the heavenly law become animals." Bark does not make a plant a plant, rather its senseless and mindless nature does. The hide does not make an animal an animal, but rather its irrational but sensitive soul. The spherical form does not make the heavens the heavens, rather their unchanging order. It is not a lack of body that makes an angel an angel, rather it is his spiritual intelligence. If you see a person totally subject to his appetites, craawling miserably on the ground, you are looking at a plant, not a man. If you see a person blinded by empty illusions and images, and made soft by their tender beguilements, completely subject to his senses, you are looking at an animal not a man. If you see a philosopher judging things through his reason, admire and follow him: his from heaven, not the earth. If you see a person living in deep contemplation, unaware of his body and dwelling in the inmost reaches of his mind, he is neither from heaven or earth, he is divinity clothed in flesh