January 2009
31 posts
“Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went...”
– George Orwell
“With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil...”
– Steven Weinberg
“The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on...”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient...”
– Dr. Seuss
“We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence...”
– Eric Hoffer
“Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.”
– George Bernard Shaw
“Through our scientific and technological genius, we have made of this world a...”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
“If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it...”
– Dorothy Parker
“The early church did not seek to formulate a theory of illness; instead, it...”
– Walter Wink
“What luck for rulers that men do not think.”
– Adolf Hitler
“When the heart is touched by direct experience, the mind may be challenged to...”
– Peter-Hans Kolvenback
“Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and...”
– Robertson Davies
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the...”
– -C.S. Lewis
(via iwishiwasthemoon)
“Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge’s chamber believes in an...”
– Lillian Hellman
“Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.”
– Isaac Newton
“A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he is one who...”
– Sidney J. Harris
“The only thing worse than a man you can’t control is a man you can.”
– Margo Kaufman
“Truth without grace crushes people and ceases to be truth. Grace without truth...”
– Randy Alcorn
“If you give to a thief he cannot steal from you, and he is no longer a thief.”
– William Saroyan