Does it make sense to choose the wrong Opportunity just to convince yourself that you would have chosen the right one—had you had the Opportunity? I
Counterfactual conditionals are always true, because the premise is false. But I was there that day, so now I am where I am.
Con padre Emanuele aveva capito che si doveva infervorare per le Heroiche Imprese - e che si può spendere una vita non per combattere un gigante, ma per nominare in troppi modi un nano.
But then, apart from politicians and the pope, why does anyone else use Twitter? Perhaps to feel important.
Before the eyes of monks intent on meditation, what is the meaning of those ridiculous grotesques, those monstrous shapes and shapely monsters? Those sordid apes? Those lions, those centaurs, those ha...
An unhappy land, then, is one whose citizens no longer know where duty lies, and seek a charismatic leader who tells them what to do. Which, if I remember correctly, is what Hitler promulgated in Mein...
Amparo was conquered, and I felt a twinge of jealousy. I
All the stories I would like to write persecute me. When I am in my chamber, it seems as if they are all around me, like little devils, and while one tugs at my ear, another tweaks my nose, and each s...
Throughout our lives, after all, we look for a story of our origins, to tell us why we were born and why we have lived.
Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.
There are more people than you think who want to have a challenging experience, in which they are obliged to reflect about the past.
وَ لكنّي الآن في مَحفَل الرقص و عليَّ أن أرقصَ ، حتّىٰ مِن أجل بِحارِ الجنوب ، حيثما وُجِدتْ ، حتّىٰ إنْ كانت في «لُوانو» ، فهي تكفي لفاشلٍ مثلي
«Так что же, – осмелился я спросить, – вы еще далеки от решения?»«Я очень близок к решению, – ответил Вильгельм. – Только не знаю, к которому».«Значит, при решении вопросов вы не приходите к единствен...
So we must spell out its faithful signals even when they seem obscure to us and as if amalgamated with a will wholly bent on evil.
If you can speak of a center in a city whose tongues of land stretch through hills and lick the sea. Seen
What does the philosopher say? Odi ergo sum. I hate therefore I am.
What better hiding place for the true Templar than in the crowd of his caricatures?
The fact that for tens of thousands of years humanity has used warfare as a solution for states of disequilibrium has no more demonstrable value than the fact that in the same period humanity learned...
The belief that time is a linear, directed sequence running from A to B is a modern illusion. In fact, it can also go from B to A, the effect producing the cause.
Tačiau prisiklausęs austrų daktaro kalbų apie kolumbietiškų kvaišalų naudą, galiu pasakyti, kad religija yra ir kokainas liaudžiai, nes būtent ji skatino ir tebeskatina karus, kitatikių skerdynes, tai...