As children’, wrote Alice Raikes (Mrs. Wilson Fox) in The Times, January 22, 1932, ‘we lived in Onslow Square and used to play in the garden behind the houses. Charles Dodgson used to stay with...

The sense of perspective that interaction with multiple cultures gives you I find to be extremely valuable, because it allows you to see the structure of a country with greater clarity, and gives you a...

From the landscape: a sense of scale. From the dead: a sense of scale.

A mother is a child’s first looking glass into the world.

When you’re at peace, you embrace the eternity.When you’re confused, you be dazzled by doomsday.

You meet a new person, you go with him and suddenly you get a whole new city…you go down new streets, you see houses you never saw before, pass places you didn’t even know were...

Leo Strauss’s discoveries in the history of political philosophy had the effect of liberating his students from the yoke of contemporary thought.

In wartime, she thought to herself, you don’t call a death murder.

Who would you impress if the world was blind?

Gratitude magnifies the sweet parts of life and diminishes the painful ones.

The present state of the world is normal; it with the last (19th) century that with the abnormality.

The old bitterness came up in him and he did not have time to cogitate and push it down.

Some people experience a life-changing sensation that transforms how they see the world after a near-death experience, but the way I see it, we’re all dying – nay, we’re all dead – and it is...

I think it’s sort of a meaningless statement from their perspective and they’re trying to grab victory out of this by taking a posture that makes them look altruistic, … I also think they’re trying...

When life gets rough, never think you have failed… allow your self a quality of emotion and introspection. It is called turning inwards. When you observe and examine your mental and emotional state, from your...

[T]he more clamour we make about ‘the women’s point of view’, the more we rub it into people that the women’s point of view is different, and frankly I do not think it is —...

True inspiration unfolds itself, not by force or it becomes fake. True intuition is also the ability to be observant.

Liberalism, contrary to popular belief, is facing backward in considering the injustice of its ancestors. Conservatism, contrary to popular belief, is facing forward in considering the psychology of its descendants. Definitively, it seems in the...

I have in this War a burning private grudge—which would probably make me a better soldier at 49 than I was at 22: against that ruddy little ignoramus Adolf Hitler (for the odd thing about...

From their perspective, it’s well within their rights to do it. They probably feel keeping the pressure on will make the process go faster.

Life in illusion is in a transient belief on insight without perspective

Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.

The role of biblical counselors is facilitate the discovery of a greater God awareness through spiritual eyes that look at life through scriptural lenses.

Cannot you conceive that another man may wish well to the world and struggle for its good on some other plan than precisely that which you have laid down?

To put this in perspective, a couple of years into recovery, we should be seeing 250,000 to 300,000 new jobs per month. We’re not there yet.

Florrie smiles with unmoderated joy, because she can’t see that most people bank their happiness like it’s something you might run out of

…each of us has an explanatory style… And our explanation is more important than the experience itself. In the words of Aldous Huxley, “Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a...

4. Men’s novels are about how to get power. Killing and so on, or winning and so on. So are women’s novels, though the method is different. In men’s novels, getting the woman or woman...

You can add up your blessings or add up your troubles. Either way, you’ll find you have an abundance.

A little grit in the eye destroyeth the sight of the very heavens, and a little malice or envy a world of joys. One wry principle in the mind is of infinite consequence.

And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn’t really change the fact that you have what you have. Good and bad… Maybe it’s good to put things in perspective, but sometimes, I...

No wonder the sky had to be blotted out by advertisements. The stars drowned with lights. If everyone could see beyond Coalition horizons, perhaps they’d see the titans of humanity for what they were: tiny...

If we don’t understand our tools, then there is a danger we will become the tool of our tools. We think of ourselves as Google’s customers, but really we’re its products.

Sometimes it’s difficult to tell what side of the moral compass we are all on. There are so many things to factor in.

I don’t argue with fools; I educate.

I now saw, with great dismay, that what I had been carrying all this time was not a bowl but a book. This ruined everything.

One of the chief values reading history, this is the author, is its capacity to “provoke renegade thoughts”.

First, no qualms. Not the thinnest sliver of misgiving about the value of his work. He was able to feel that the most important job in the world was putting over Monsoon. In the second...

Yesterday I was sad, today I am happy! Yesterday I had a problem, today I still have the same problem! But today I changed the way I look at it!

And as I looked at the star, I realised what millions of other people have realised when looking at stars. We’re tiny. We don’t matter. We’re here for a second and then gone the next....

There is nothing that strengthens the ego more than being right. Being right is identification with a mental position – a perspective, an opinion, a judgement, a story. For you to be right, of course,...

Electricity is really just organized lightning

He wasn’t my boyfriend, but he was something. Someone who made a positive impact on my life regardless of the negative. He changed my perspective for the better and made me who I am in...

Sometimes, the best thing you can do in order to learn about the world around you is to step outside of yourself, remove your routine and watch the happenings about you.

I tell you I can’t be bothered with things like that. I’ve got a soul above buttons.

Those two little words — says you — are the most powerful argument in any discipline: theology, philosphy, even domestic harmony. They are powerful because they are true. Whenever you say something, it is you...

You were contemplating the mountain, Mr. Conway?” Came the inquiry.”Yes, it’s a fine sight. It has a name, I suppose?””It is called Karakal””I don’t think I’ve ever heard of it. Is is very high?””Over twenty-eight...

Yefgenii said, “The Americans spent millions of dollars designing a pen that would work in space. What did we do?” Gevorkian’s head was down, his eyes were down. “What did we do?”Gevorkian lifted his head...

You don’t see the world as it is, you see it,as you are.

It’s a secondhand world we’re born into. What is novel to us is only so because we’re newborn, and what we cannot see, that has come before- what our parents have seen and been and...