Here is the paradox of it: the more of an individual you become the more you realize we are interrelated, that success of one requires the success of all.
There is a third choice besides being busy and killing time, something profound.
If God rewards the faithful with earthly rewards, then what leverage does the devil have?
Perhaps the media may not always be telling what to think, but it is always telling you what to think about.
Where once we aspired to be more like our heroes, today we try to make our heroes more like us.
We look for things or people that are incorruptible. There is nothing incorruptible, merely uncorrupted. We neglect the role we play. We value innocence, but only the kind we cannot alter. We throw mu...
Facts, like living things, have a value in and of themselves and demand respect. Yet some people use them as means to an end, and dismiss them as soon as they are done using them.
Ignorance is a horrible thing. But arrogance, the belief that knowing a little more than the ignorant makes you wise, is more horrible still.
If you want a language to survive, capture great thoughts within it. William Shakespeare has ensured Elizabethan English will never perish from this world.
The places of quiet are going away, the churches, the woods, the libraries. And it is only in silence we can hear the voice inside of us which gives us true peace.
Art is the medium through which new thoughts, perspectives, and attitudes are brought into the world.
A politician is someone who knows everything about running a campaign and nothing about running a country.
Science is the process of obscuring the marvelous with explanations.
Death is the night sky, the background against which the fleeting fireworks of life are displayed, an empty stage upon which the drama of life is played.
Where there is hope there is life.
There is no greater thing than to be oneself, and it is never too late to do so.
What is wisdom? It is the result of multiple paradigms brought to their intellectual furthest reaches and balanced and merged together. The fundamentalist, the person who only sees life through a sing...
Technology has not made humanity any wiser, it has only made us more dangerous.
As time and space are bent by gravity, so too is truth bent by power.
A thousand truths can be assembled in such a way as to create a colossal lie.
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