H.G. Wells Quote

The Greeks made Space the subject-matter of a science of supreme simplicity and certainty. Out of it grew, in the mind of classical antiquity, the idea of pure science. Geometry became one of the most...

Prophecy is like a treacherous woman. She takes your member in her mouth, and you moan with the pleasure of it and think, how sweet, how fine, how good this is... and then her teeth snap shut and your...

The rising influence of lay piety is particularly marked upon the Mariological controversies of the late medieval period. Two rival positions developed: the maculist position, which held that Mary was...

The more formidable the contradiction between inexhaustible life-joy and inevitable fate, the greater the longing which reveals itself in the kingdom of poetry and in the self-created world of dreams...

The hard truths are the ones to hold tight. - Old Bear

It was one thing to go into battle with friends, and another to perish alone and despised.

Seeing everything, yet a part of nothing.

Spirituality can go hand-in-hand with ruthless single-mindedness when the individual is convinced his cause is just

Magic begins in superstition, and ends in science. ... At every step the history of civilization teaches us how slight and superficial a structure civilization is, and how precariously it is poised up...

The institution of chivalry forms one of the most remarkable features in the history of the Middle Ages.