A Quote by Honore de Balzac

Materialism and spirituality are two pretty racquets with which charlatans in cap and gown make the same ball fly.

Honore de Balzac

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Ball Cap Charlatans Fly Gown Make Materialism Pretty Same Spirituality Two Which

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Honore de Balzac
French - Novelist
May 20, 1799 - August 18, 1850

Possibly the words materialism and spirituality express two sides of one and the same fact.

Honore de Balzac

Religion and science are the two wings upon which man's intelligence can soar into the heights, with which the human soul can progress. It is not possible to fly with one wing alone! Should a man try to fly with the wing of religion alone he would quickly fall into the quagmire of superstition, whilst on the other hand, with the wing of science alone he would also make no progress, but fall into the despairing slough of materialism.

Abdu'l-Bahá

Materialism, which gives priority to material needs and objects, is obviously the opposite of spirituality

Dallin H. Oaks

I guess I do prefer a ball cap. I have performed without a cap, mostly at funerals and weddings.

Rodney Atkins

When we used the small-faced racquets and wood racquets, we had to use every part of the court.

Evonne Goolagong Cawley

In India, the wicket tends to get a bit slower once the ball gets old, but in England, it's pretty much the same whether it's new ball or old ball.

Bhuvneshwar Kumar

The Japanese don't have a specific religion, but a spirituality. A cap, shoes, and a table have a spirituality. When you eat an apple, you don't say you eat it: you say, 'I am receiving it.' Kind of like you are thanking the food.

Hirokazu Kore-eda

Spirituality brings a class of men who lay exclusive claim to the special powers of the world. The immediate effect of this is a reaction towards materialism, which opens the door to scores of exclusive claims, until the time comes when not only all the spiritual powers of the race, but all its material powers and privileges are centred in the hands of a very few; and these few, standing on the necks of the masses of the people, want to rule them. Then society has to help itself, and materialism comes to the rescue.

Swami Vivekananda

In the theatre, we're all charlatans and liars and scavengers and fly-by-nights.

Simon McBurney

You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.

Moliere

Let there be as little materialism as possible, with the maximum of spirituality.

Swami Vivekananda

Two attempts have been made in the world to found social life: the one was upon religion, and the other was upon social necessity. The one was founded upon spirituality, the other upon materialism; the one upon transcendentalism, the other upon realism.

Swami Vivekananda

Not only after two or three centuries, but in a million years, life will still be as it was; life does not change, it remains for ever, following its own laws which do not concern us, or which, at any rate, you will never find out. Migrant birds, cranes for example, fly and fly, and whatever thoughts, high or low, enter their heads, they will still fly and not know why or where. They fly and will continue to fly, whatever philosophers come to life among them; they may philosophize as much as they like, only they will fly.

Anton Chekhov

Once you have the cap and gown all you need do is open your mouth. Whatever nonsense you talk becomes wisdom and all the rubbish good sense.

Moliere

There's been a big buzz about the Charlatans in the last couple of years. I've heard the word Charlatans more in the last few years than I'd heard it for the previous 20 years. People would interview me for years and never even mention the Charlatans.