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.

Anyone who is desperate or alone will agree there is comfort in routine.

Time is the Mind of Space.

Every battle is won before it is ever fought.

Expect nothing and accept everything. That is the only key to happiness.

Ne yamansınız dökme kalıplarınızla; bir şeyi onlara uydurmadan rahat edemezsiniz.

Während die Starken sich ruhig einmal irren können, ohne etwas zu verlieren, weil selbst die mächtigsten Menschen noch Menschen sind – ja sogar ihre Irrtümer machen sie nur noch menschlicher -,darf sich, wer sich als...

Every person writes his own book with the example of his life.

If the colour of life turns grey turn the palette the other way

Were knowledge all, what were our needTo thrill and faint and sweetly bleed?

… the lofty mind of man can be imprisoned by the artifices of its own making.

..chaos is the neighbour of God: but everything’s usually neat and tidy in hell…

Some people were destined to have a significant other.Some people were destined for greatness.But few others were destined to be soldiers, to be warriors, to be alone.That is me.It is not a path that i...

Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.

I have no doubt that in reality the future will be vastly more surprising than anything I can imagine. Now my own suspicion is that the Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but...

it’s not all about the direction,its about the destination.

I … having filled my life with the spiritual blessings Christianity gave me, brimful of these blessings and living by them, I, like a child, not understanding them, destroy them — that is, I wish...

Knowing you don’t have much time left changes things. You get kind of philosophical. And you figure things out-more like, they figure themselves out-and everything gets real clear.

These were innocent people, so innocent that they thought poverty a crime that wealth would allow them to forget. — from the notebooks of Celal Salik

Patriotism is a word; and one that generally comes to mean either my country, right or wrong, which is infamous, or my country is always right, which is imbecile.

This first glance of a soul which does not yet know itself is like dawn in the heavens; it is the awakening of something radiant and unknown.

Wandering is never waste, dear boy,’ he said. ‘While you wander you will find much to wonder about, and wonder is the first step to creation.

Only people are worth dying for.

Doing something once can be addicting. Doing it twice is admitting it.

It is better to burn than to disappear.

A sin is nothing more than regret. Not for doing it once, but doing it again when you know you’re going to regret it.

May you rule in wisdom.