How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the human consciousness, may be judged from the fact that, despite the ephemeral brevity of human life, the...

io, mio caro, non credo nell’amore universale. L’amore esiste in dosi modiche. Si possono amare forse cinque fra uomini e donne, dieci magari, talvolta financo quindici. E anche questo solo assai di rado. Ma se...

Today’s controversy is tomorrow’s sea change.

Isn’t it strange how people are selective about the truth the want to see or hear?

What he saw seemed to be the very idea of a city, barnacled and thick with itself.

Without the quest, there can be no epiphany.

To enjoy a thing exclusively is commonly to exlcude yourself from the true enjoyment of it.

Happy is the man who is nothing.

Try & try until you cannot succeed.

Nor do we merely feel these essences for one short hour no, even as these trees that whisper round a temple become soon dear as the temples self, so does the moon, the passion posey,...

De atunci femeia-ascunde sub pleoape-o taina si-si misca geana parc-ar zice ca ea stie ceva, ce noi nu stim, ce nimenea nu stie , nici Dumnezeu chiar.

Irony is the kid who steals music and is stolen by the music.

He believed in his own decency with all his heart. So it was with every true monster, Vic supposed.

Have you paused to consider that there is no way out? Each way out of one situation necessarily being the way into another situation.

Where is that man who has forgotten words that I may have a word with him?

Life is like a box of cookies: it’s good while it lasts, but before you know it, it’s gone.

I am more than less, but less than worthy. Worthy to be heard, but heard in silence

The most important thing you do everyday you live is deciding not to kill yourself.

Nothing is as it seems, but something is everything it is made out to be.

Jace turned to look over his shoulder, the wind whipping his hair into tangles. “What are you thinking?” he called back to her.”Just how different everything down there is now, you know, now that I...

If you can hear the birds singing, you’re in the right place

This isn’t lust. Lust wants, does the obvious, and pads back into the forest. Love is greedier. Love wants round-the-clock care; protection; rings, vows, joint accounts; scented candles on birthdays; life insurance. Babies. Love’s a...

Ein Buch ist ein Spiegel wenn ein Affe hineinsieht so kann kein Apostel heraus gucken.

The same way a compact disk isn’t responsible for what’s recorded on it, that’s how we are. You’re about as free to act as a programmed computer. You’re about as one-of-a-kind as a dollar bill

If you think like others, how can you be sure you’re thinking at all?

It is better to make an irrational noise in a bush than in a desert.

If even a dog’s tooth is truly worshipped it glows with light. The venerated object is endowed with power, that is the simple sense of the ontological proof. And if there is art enough a...

There is justice in the world, Peter Lake, but it cannot be had without mystery.

Such is the great nature of man, it resides the true face beneath a glittering masquerade.

Without a whole lot of pressure, a diamond is just a piece of coal.

Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.

Best *sometimes it is best not to speakbut just gaze silentlyinto the infinity of your own soul_____________________________rassool jibraeel snyman (c) 2015″The Poetic Assassin

God bless the lawn mower, he thought. Who was the fool who made January first New Year’s Day? No, they should set a man to watch the grasses across a million Illinois, Ohio, and Iowa...

One species on the planet, and one species only, has reached the point of being able to have an impact on the evolutionary fortunes of all other species and upon the functioning of all ecosystems....

It’s been a long time since humans were prey animals. A hundred thousand years or so. But buried deep in our genes the memory remains: the awareness of the gazelle, the instinct of the antelope....

I don’t believe in your “Good”. I believe in human kindness.

I embrace the purpose of God and the doom assigned

Oliver, success is usually a feeling of mere relief, where failure is pain. Happiness, you see, lies in neither, but in sticking to a daily ritual and becoming absorbed in something useful. When the war...

My philosophical heart will not judge thee

Philosophy has forgotten about children

Socrates: Have you noticed on our journey how often the citizens of this new land remind each other it is a free country? Plato: I have, and think it odd they do this.Socrates: How so,...

Evil is done by the living.

It was a train full of strangers, and they were all the same.

Heated is what you get when you rub faith and instinct together.

I never thought it would be easy to serve God,” she said. “I just didn’t think it would be this hard.

The Dark Ages gradually ended six centuries ago with the Renaissance, which seeded new ideas for a different world. The Renaissance ideal dominated our culture until three centuries ago, from the 14th to the 18th...

I got interested in the idea that love is often used as a kind of blanket explanation for things. I mean, battered wives, for instance: “Why did you go back to him?” “Oh, I loved...

Eventlessness has no post to drape duration on.

This is the story of a man named Eddie and it starts at the end, with Eddie dying in the sun. It may seem strange to start a story with and ending, but all endings...

Every major technological innovation propels humanity forward to the point of no return.