From as long as, literally as far back as I can remember I've liked puns, word jokes, I can literally recall looking at a comic at the age of six or seven and I remember what I enjoyed and what it was...
The bad end unhappily; the good, unluckily. That is what tragedy means.
THOMASINA:But then the Egyptian noodle made carnal embrace with the enemy who burned the great library of Alexandria without so much as a fine for all that is overdue!
Free to move, speak, extemporize, and yet. We have not been cut loose. Our truancy is defined by one fixed star, and our drift represents merely a slight change of angle to it: we may seize the moment...
What is the society we wish to protect? Is it the society of complete surveillance for the commonwealth? Is this the wealth we seek to have in common - optimal security at the cost of maximal surveill...
When Auden said his poetry didn't save one Jew from the gas chamber, he'd said it all.
I once did a radio program with a famous materialist, that is to say a scientist who believed that absolutely everything was physical and that all emotions were reductive to little electrical impulses...
Although I don't examine myself in this respect, I would say, off the top of my head, that I've come to acknowledge my Czechness more as I get older.
Chater: You dare to call me that. I demand satisfaction!Septimus: Mrs Chater demanded satisfaction and now you are demanding satisfaction. I cannot spend my time day and night satisfying the demands o...
I was an awful critic. I operated on the assumption that there was an absolute scale of values against which art could be measured. I didn't trust my own subjective responses.
As Socrates so philosophically put it, since we don't know what death is, it is illogical to fear it.
Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.
Death followed by eternity the worst of both worlds. It is a terrible thought.
A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.
There must have been a time, in the beginning, when we could have said – no. But somehow we missed it. Oh well, we'll know better next time.
THOMASINA: ....the enemy who burned the great library of Alexandria without so much as a fine for all that is overdue. Oh, Septimus! -- can you bear it? All the lost plays of the Athenians! Two hundre...
We ransomed our dignity to the clouds.
Moon felt as if the conversation was a weight he had to drag along on the end of a rope.
That I have the right to express myself freely at all times in all circumstances entails the idea that free speech is a 'basic human right' possessed by each individual, and, as such, trumps the inter...
I think I give the impression of being a romantic, and I think inside I'm quite severe. But some might say they had the opposite impression of me.