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# Western religions

The Western religions are the religions that originated within Western culture, which are thus historically, culturally, and theologically distinct from Eastern, African and Iranian religions. The term Abrahamic religions (Islam, Christianity and Judaism) is often used instead of using the East and West terminology, as these originated in the Middle East.
Western culture itself was significantly influenced by the emergence of Christianity and its adoption as the state church of the Roman Empire in the late 4th century and the term "Christendom" largely indicates this intertwined history. Western Christianity was significantly influenced by Hellenistic religion (notably Platonism) as well as the Roman imperial cult. Western Christianity is based on Roman Catholicism (Latin Rite), as opposed to Eastern Orthodoxy, from which it was divided by the Great Schism of the 11th century, and further includes all Protestant traditions splitting off Roman Catholicism from the 16th century.
Since the 19th century, Western religion has diversified into numerous new religious movements, including Occultism, Spiritism and diverse forms of Neopaganism.

## Quotes

* The religious thinking of Europe is accustomed to rigid impoverishing definitions, to strict exclusions, to a constant preoccupation with the outward idea, the Organization, the form. A precise creed framed by the logical or theological intellect, a strict and definite moral code to fix the conduct, a bundle of observances and ceremonies, a firm ecclesiastical or congregational Organization, that is Western religion. Once the spirit is safely imprisoned and chained up in these things, some emotional fervor and even a certain amount of mystic seeking can be tolerated – within rational limits; but, after all, it is perhaps safest to do without these dangerous spices.
** (Aurobindo, Collected Works of Sri Aurobindo: The Renaissance in India ,1997:191). quoted from Malhotra, R., & Infinity Foundation (Princeton, N.J.). (2018). Being different: An Indian challenge to western universalism.
* In the Western tradition there is a recognized hierarchy of beings, with, of course, the human being on top—the pinnacle of evolution, the darling of Creation—and the plants at the bottom. But in Native ways of knowing, human people are often referred to as “the younger brothers of Creation.” We say that humans have the least experience with how to live and thus the most to learn—we must look to our teachers among the other species for guidance.
** Robin Wall Kimmerer Braiding Sweetgrass (2013)
* The notion of the psychopathology of the shaman works just as readily in understanding the roots of major Western religions as well.
** Robert Sapolsky, The Trouble With Testosterone: And Other Essays on the Biology of the Human Predicament (New York: A Touchstone Book, Simon & Schuster, 1998), p. 255.
# Victor Frankenstein (film)

Victor Frankenstein is a 2015 film about a scientist and his assistant who create a monster.
    Directed by Paul McGuigan. Written by Max Landis.

## Dr. Victor Frankenstein

* There is no Satan. No God. Only Humanity. Only ME!
* Igor, you and I shall be at the heart of a scientific enterprise that will change the world. We shall create life out of death!
* Oh my brother Henry forgive me. I have wronged you, for this is not life. This is not life. You are not life! Live! Live!
* Life is temporary, why should death be any different?
* I dream of a world where a dead man who's killed, healed brought back to life and walk again!.

## Igor Straussman

* It's hard to judge cruelty when you've never known kindness.
* You know this story. The crack of lightning. A mad genius. An unholy creation. The world, of course, remembers the monster, not the man. But sometimes, when you look closely, there's more to a tale. Sometimes the monster is the man.
* I've been with the circus for as long as I can remember. Circuses like to think of themselves as families. But, of course, each one has its clown.

## Inspector Turpin

* Be careful Mr. Frankenstein, you toy with wrathful forces. And there's no mercy in nature.
* You shall be forgotten. That's right. History will bury you, Frankenstein, and no man will remember your name.
* You'll burn in hell for what you've done.

## Other

* Lorelei: [on Victor's creation] I looked into its eyes and there was nothing there.
* Finnegan Weyland: You know, for men so obsessed with death, you think yourselves so above violence. Curious.

## Dialogue

    Igor: It's alive.
    Victor Frankenstein: Isn't that rather obvious?
    Finnegan: Can you make another?
    Victor Frankenstein: I can and a whole lot more.
    Finnegan: I dream of an un-killable army a thousand strong.
    Victor Frankenstein: Since the beginning of modern medicine, there has been an assumption regarding the status of mortality. That being that death is an unavoidable event, the inevitability of which we should take for granted. I will show today that life is not some grace bestowed upon us by some outdated notion of an all-powerful...
    Finnegan: Get on with it!

## Taglines

* Meet Your Makers
* Discover the Origin of the Monster and His Creation.

## Cast

* James McAvoy — Doctor Victor Frankenstein
* Daniel Radcliffe — Igor Straussman
* Jessica Brown Findlay — Lorelei
* Andrew Scott — Inspector Turpin
* Charles Dance — Baron Frankenstein
* Freddie Fox — Finnegan Weyland
* Mark Gatiss — Dettweiler
* Callum Turner — Alistair
* Daniel Mays — Barnaby
* Spencer Wilding — Frankenstein's monster

## External links

* Victor Frankenstein quotes at the Internet Movie Database
* Victor Frankenstein at Mojo
* Victor Frankenstein at Rotten Tomatoes
# Victor Cousin

Victor Cousin (French: [kuzɛ̃]; 28 November 1792 – 14 January 1867) was a French philosopher. He was the founder of "eclecticism", a briefly influential school of French philosophy that combined elements of German idealism and Scottish Common Sense Realism. As the administrator of public instruction for over a decade, Cousin also had an important influence on French educational policy.

## Quotes

* When we read with attention the poetical and philosophical monuments of the East-above all, those of India, which are beginning to spread in Europe-we discover there many a truth, and truths so profound, and which make such a contrast with the meanness of the results at which European genius has sometimes stopped, that we are constrained to bend the knee before the philosophy of the East, and to see in this cradle of the human race the native land of the highest philosophy.
** quoted in Londhe, S. (2008). A tribute to Hinduism: Thoughts and wisdom spanning continents and time about India and her culture. New Delhi: Pragun Publication.
* India contains the whole history of philosophy in a nutshell.
** quoted in Londhe, S. (2008). A tribute to Hinduism: Thoughts and wisdom spanning continents and time about India and her culture. New Delhi: Pragun Publication.
* Victor Cousin believed that “We are constrained to see in this cradle of the human race the native land of the highest philosophy.”
** quoted in Will Durant, Our Oriental Heritage : India and Her Neighbors.
# Victim blaming

Victim blaming occurs when the victim of a wrongful act is irrationally held at fault for the harm that befell them.

## Quotes

* When restoration of injustice is costly, people tend to deny injustice by blaming the victims or by minimizing their hardships and disadvantages.
** Leo Montada and Melvin J. Lerner, Responses to Victimizations and Belief in a Just World (1998), p. viii
* People, for the sake of their security and ability to plan for the future, need to believe they live in an essentially "just" world where they can get what they deserve, at least in the long run. It was further reasoned that being confronted with innocent victims of undeserved suffering poses a threat to that fundamental belief, and as a consequence, people naturally develop and employ ways of defending it. This may involve acting to eliminate injustices. But failing that, by blaming, rejecting, or avoiding the victim, or having faith that the victim will eventually be appropriately compensated, people are able to maintain their confidence in the justness of the world in which they must live and work for their future security.
** Melvin J. Lerner and Susan Clayton, Justice and Self-Interest: Two Fundamental Motives, Cambridge University Press 2011
# Victor Borge

Victor Borge (January 3, 1909 – December 23, 2000), born Børge Rosenbaum, was a Danish comedian, conductor and pianist, affectionately known as The Clown Prince of Denmark, The Unmelancholy Dane, and The Great Dane.

## Quotes
### Quotations from Borge's performances

* What is the difference between a Nazi and a dog? The Nazi lifts his arm.
** Comic routine in pre-invasion Denmark, quoted in Victor Borge, 91, Comic Piano Virtuoso, Dies" in The New York Times (24 December 2000)
* I only know two pieces, one is 'Clair de Lune', the other one isn't.
** From the obit in The Independent.
* When I was a little boy and played Liebestraum, my father used to hit me on the head with a newspaper every time I slopped the cadenza . . . I hate Liebestraum.
** From the obit in The Independent.
* (Shortly after Germany forced Denmark to sign a non-aggression pact in 1939) How nice. Now the Germans can sleep in peace, knowing that they will not be invaded by us.
** From the obit in The Independent.
* I learned to play the piano on my mother's knee - that was before we got a piano.
** From the obit in the Boston Globe.
* [of English] It's your language. I'm just trying to use it.
** From the obit in the Boston Globe.
* The first piano was built long after they didn't have any at all.
** From his skit "History of Pianos" in The Best of Victor Borge

### From his autobiography Smilet er den korteste afstand

* The smile is the shortest distance between two persons (Smilet er den korteste afstand mellem to mennesker)

### Off-stage quotations

* There is a bit of Hans Christian Andersen in every Dane.
** From the obit in The Independent.

## References

* 1 2 3 4 Tom Vallance, "Obituary: Victor Borge", The Independent (London), 26 December 2000
* 1 2 Richard Dyer, "Laughter Was at the Heart of Victor Borge's Many Talents", Boston Globe, 29 December 2000
* ↑ Victor Borge, "Smilet er den korteste afstand (The Smile is the Shortest Distance)"

## External links

History of Pianos - Youtube
# Silouan of Shropshire

Priest-Monk Silouan of Shropshire is an Orthodox Christian monk. He currently resides at the Orthodox Christian Monastery of St Anthony and St Cuthbert, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, United Kingdom.

## Quotes

       Priest-Monk Silouan (2011). Wisdom Songs: A Book of Wisdom Chapters in Five Centuries. New York: Sophia Institute. ISBN 978-0-9835867-1-5.
* Stillness is neither thought nor the cessation of thought. Stillness stands steadfast as wisdom when the heart is luminous and clear. Uncontrived and unfabricated, wisdom is overlooked by blind oblivion.Stillness is not one state opposed to another. It is not an external phenomenon. It is incomprehensible and ineffable because at root, it is uncreated and unconditioned. It unifies, so as to ground what is integral. It illumines, so as to clarify what is translucent. It glorifies, to liberate the glorified. It deifies, to transfigure the deified.
** No. 40, in "A Century on the Wisdom of Stillness"
* Stillness does not come and go. It is we who come and go. Stillness abides, like a vast evenness, limpid and pure. It is a transcendent realm of infinite clarity.
** No. 60, in "A Century on the Wisdom of Stillness"
* Stillness is neither dissipation nor dislocation. She is neither exclusion nor suppression. She is neither addiction to confusion nor fixation on separation.Stillness is ineffable freedom. Everything is ineffably free in true stillness. She is inexhaustible. She is endless. ‘After fire, a still small voice.’
** No. 66, in "A Century on the Wisdom of Stillness"
* So, true stillness is of God, from God, and wholly in God. With this we begin to enter into our rest. We begin to rest in peace. We begin to taste the bright mysteries of holy dying, that overcome death through death.Stillness is resurrection. It overcomes death by death. It reveals glory to wisdom. It unveils vision and wonder. Such wonder binds confused, divided thoughts. It is serene.
** No. 79, in "A Century on the Wisdom of Stillness"

## See also

* Hesychasm
* Evagrius Ponticus
* Sayings of the Desert Fathers
* Thomas Merton
* Panentheism

## External links

* Wisdom Hermitage
* orthodoxmonastery.co.uk
# Silvano Piovanelli

Silvano Piovanelli (21 February 1924 – 9 July 2016) was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who served as the archbishop of the Archdiocese of Florence.

## Quotes

* The most important thing for the Church, then, is not doing, but being: choosing, as Mary of Bethany, the better part, sitting at the feet of the Beloved and drinking His word with joy. Certainly not so as to live a solitary inwardness and hunched in on oneself, but so as to give strong witness of that Love, that through us wishes to reach all.
** Grasping the essential with clarity (2005) 30 Days

## Quotes about Silvano Piovanelli

* I think with affection of this dear brother in the episcopate, who served the Gospel with joy and wisdom and loved the Church tenaciously, recalling with gratitude his intense pastoral work, first as a zealous priest and auxiliary bishop, and then as an attentive and wise guide of the archdiocese. I raise fervent prayers to the Lord so that, by the intercession of St. John the Baptist and the blessed Virgin Mary, He welcome his faithful servant and distinguished pastor in heavenly Jerusalem.
** Pope Francis, Telegram for the death of Cardinal Silvano Piovanelli (9 July 2016) Press Office of the Holy See
# Silvanus of Gaza

Abba Silvanus of Gaza was one of the Desert Fathers quoted in the Apophthegmata Patrum (Sayings of the Desert Fathers).

## Quotes

       Wortley, John (2014). Give Me a Word: The Alphabetical Sayings of the Desert Fathers. Yonkers, New York: St. Vladimir's Seminary Press. ISBN 978-0-88141-497-4.
* He also said: “Woe to that man whose reputation is greater than his performance.”
** Saying 10
* Abba Moses asked Abba Silvanus: “Can a person make a fresh start each day?” and Abba Silvanus said: “If he is a real worker, a person can make a fresh start each day and each hour.”
** Saying 11
# Silvano Agosti

Silvano Agosti (C.E.1938 — living), Italian writer and director.

## Quotes by Silvano Agosti:

* Gregorio Samsa is the character who has the courage to become truly an unclean and gigantic insect to scream the injustice that is perpetrated daily against millions of people, who are forced to buy, to have the necessities... I was saying to live, but it is more correct to say to 'exist', they are forced to spend the whole day, either looking for a job, or doing a job, or submitting to a job, or sickness due to overwork. In short, restlessness is the main sentiment of all societies that do not take into account the greatness and preciousness of every single human being.

## Letters from Kyrgyzstan:

* Here in Kyrgyzstan, in every public and private sector, you don't work more than three hours a day, at full pay, with the reservation of a possible hour of overtime. The remaining 20 and 21 hours of the day are devoted to sleep, food, creativity, love, life, oneself, one's children, and one's fellow human beings. (p. 8)
The current Western concept of vacation, on the other hand, is as ferocious as the very conception of work, not only because it profoundly interferes with the meaning of freedom, but because it transforms its meaning. During the holiday season, millions of people are forced to have fun, just as in the rest of the year they are forced to work tirelessly, to dream of finding a job or to recover from breakdowns and illnesses caused by forced and daily work. (p. 9)
* This mechanism of eight hours of work every day has always produced social tensions, neuroses, depressions, illnesses and above all the precise feeling of losing the feeling of life forever.

### The Slave's Speech:

* So, in the meantime one must not put flowers at the window of the cell of which he is prisoner because otherwise even if one day the door is open he will not want to go out. He must always think, with a perfect conscience: "These people are stealing my life, in exchange for two and a half million a month, all right, while I am a masterpiece whose value is unspeakable."
* "Better lick the floor" but what's horrendous in this culture is that "licking the floor" has even become an aspiration, you know? But it's monstrous that the guy has to go to work eight hours a day and he has to be grateful to those who make him lick the floor, you know?
* The real slave, the true slave defends the master, not fights him. Because the slave is not so much the one who has the chain on his foot as the one who is no longer able to imagine freedom.
Do you understand why the whole West lives in an area of benefit? Because it's stealing eight-tenths of the rest of the world's goods.

## Filmography:

* D'amore si vive (C.E.1984)
* The Fever (C.E.2005)

## Note:

* ↑ From the video available on YouTube Silvano Agosti on Franz Kafka.
* 1 2 3 4 From the video available on YouTube Discorso tipico dello schiavo - Silvano Agosti.

## Bibliography:

* Silvano Agosti, Lettere dalla Kirghisia, Edizioni l'Immagine, Rome C.E.2007.
# V. Narayanasamy

Velu Narayanasamy (born 30 May 1947) is an Indian politician who served as the 10th Chief Minister of Puducherry from 2016 to 2021. He is a member of Indian National Congress political party.

## Quotes

* Puducherry chief minister V Narayanasamy said that the appointment of Priyanka Gandhi as general secretary of All India Congress Committee (AICC) has instilled fear among BJP leaders. "BJP is destabilising communal harmony and AIADMK is remaining a puppet in its hands. No one can stop Stalin from becoming chief minister of Tamil Nadu and Rahul Gandhi from becoming prime minister of India," he said.
** in Jan 24, 2019, DMK-led alliance sounds battle cry against 'Sanatan forces'
# V. K. Sasikala

Vivekanandan Krishnaveni Sasikala (born 18 August 1954),is an Indian businesswoman and Indian politician.

## Quotes

* We will tell the people that our aim is to uplift the Tamil community. Leave ... Can the tiger's cave be gifted to the cats ... Is it tolerable?.
# William Henry Keeler

William Henry Keeler (March 4, 1931 – March 23, 2017) was an American cardinal of the Catholic Church.

## Quotes

* It's a simplification to say that the American Church wanted to be free from the Church of Rome. That's not the case. While Carroll was sincerely loyal to the pope, he saw it as very useful for Rome to understand the advantages of making the most of the qualities of the American people and that it would encourage the flowering of the American Church. Today we have almost 200 dioceses.
** Free of the English, free to profess themselves Catholics (2005) 30 Days
# William Henry Vanderbilt

William Henry Vanderbilt (8 May 1821 – 8 December 1885) was an American railroad executive, the son and heir of millionaire Cornelius Vanderbilt.

## Disputed

* The public be damned!
** Attributed remark to a reporter during a visit to Chicago, promptly denied by Vanderbilt. Descriptions of the context and circumstances vary widely, although most accounts agree that he was asked whether he ran an unprofitable train for the public's benefit. See Dow, Andrew (2006) Dow's Dictionary of Railway Quotations.
*** The earliest version appears in Chicago Herald (October 9, 1882): "The public be damned. I take no stock in that twaddle about working for the good of anybody but ourselves. I continue to run the limited express — well, because I want to."
*** In the report published the same day in the Chicago Tribune, apparently written by Clarence P. Dresser, Vanderbilt dismissed as "nonsense" the idea of running a train for public accommodation, but without vulgarity.
*** The report the same day in The New York Times roughly followed the sense of the Herald report with variations in wording and length: "The public be damned. What does the public care for railroads except to get as much out of them for as small a consideration as possible? I don't take any stock in this silly nonsense about working for anybody's good but our own, because we are not. When we make a move, we do it because it is in our interest to do so, and not because we expect to do somebody else good. Of course, we like to do everything possible for the benefit of humanity in general, but when we do, we first see that we are benefiting ourselves. Railroads are not run on sentiment, but on business principles and to pay, and I don't mean to be egotistic when I say that the roads which I have had anything to do with have generally paid pretty well."
*** William A. Croffut, writing in 1886, quoted Vanderbilt: "The public be damned. I am working for my stockholders! If the public wants the train, why don't they support it?"
*** Later retellings have Vanderbilt making the remark in good humor, or losing his temper at a reporter who interrupted his dinner.
* [Anti-monopoly] is a movement inspired by a set of fools and black-mailers. To be sure, there are some men in it whose motives are good, if their sense is not. When I want to buy up any politician, I always find the Anti-Monopolists the most purchasable. They don't come so high.
** Quoted in Clarence P. Dresser, "Vanderbilt in the West" New York Times (October 9, 1882).
# William Henry Sleeman

Major-general Sir William Henry Sleeman KCB (8 August 1788 – 10 February 1856) was a British soldier and administrator in British India. He is best known for his work from the 1830s in suppressing the organized criminal gangs known as Thuggee.

## Quotes

* “The old city of Ajoodhea is a ruin, with the exception of a few buildings along the bank of the river raised by wealthy Hindoos in honour of Ram, who once lived and reigned there, and is believed by all Hindoos to have been an incarnation of Vishnoo.” (Vol. 2, p. 27)
** ‘A Journey Through The Kingdom Of Oudh (1849-1850)’ , 1858, quoted . in Kishore, Kunal (2016). Ayodhyā revisited.
# William Henry Smyth

Admiral William Henry Smyth (21 January 1788 – 8 September 1865) was an English sailor and astronomer. His grandson was Robert Baden-Powell.

## Quotes

* This object, which somewhat resembles a flight of wild ducks in shape, is a gathering of minute stars.
** Of the M11 star cluster, which is now known as the "Wild Duck" cluster.
** A Cycle of Celestial Objects, 1881 reprint, p. 544.
* Admiral Smyth says that no family is quite civilized unless it possesses a copy of some encyclopaedia and a telescope.
** Quoted by Maria Mitchell
# William Henry Perkin

Sir William Henry Perkin, FRS (12 March 1838 – 14 July 1907) was an English chemist best known for his accidental discovery, at the age of 18, of the first aniline dye, mauveine. He was a member of the Royal Society and was awarded with the Royal Medal and the Davy Medal.

## Quotes

* When I look back on my life and consider all the way I have been led, above all I thank God to Whom I owe everything, for all His goodness to me and ascribe to Him all the praise and honour.
** As quoted in The chemist and druggist (1906), UBM. p. 222.
# William Henry Drummond

William Henry Drummond (né Drumm; April 13, 1854 – April 6, 1907) was an Irish-born Canadian poet whose humorous dialect poems made him popular throughout the English-speaking world and beloved in Canada.

## Quotes

* On wan dark night on Lac St. Pierre, De win’ she blow, blow, blow, An’ de crew of de wood-scow Julie Plante Got scar’t an’ run below— For de win’ she blow lak’ hurricane, Bimeby she blow some more, An’ de scow bus’ up on Lac St. Pierre Wan arpent from de shore.
** "The Wreck of the Julie Plante (A Legend of Lac St. Pierre)", st. 1, in The Habitant and other French-Canadian Poems (1897)

## External links

* Encyclopedic article on William Henry Drummond on Wikipedia
* Works related to William Henry Drummond on Wikisource