He tried to decide if he was really ashamed of being afraid, and decided that he was not. Fear was there for a purpose. It was wired into any creature that had not completely turned its back on its ev...
He was perfectly astonished with the historical account gave him of our affairs during the last century; protesting it was only a heap of conspiracies, rebellions, murders, massacres, revolutions, ban...
Hell didn't make me a monster. It just confirmed all my worst fears about myself.
Here I, for instance, quite naturally want to live, in order to satisfy all my capacities for life, and not simply my capacity for reasoning, that is, not simply one twentieth of my capacity for life....
Hicimos de los ojos una especia de espejos hacia adentro, con el resultado, muchas veces, de que acababan mostrando sin reserva lo que estabamos tratando de negar con la boca.
Human nature is always interesting... And it's curious to see how certain types always tend to act in exactly the same way. - Miss Marple, The Herb of Death, Pg. 167
Humans had built a world inside the world, which reflected it in pretty much the same way as a drop of water reflected the landscape. And yet ... and yet ...Inside this little world they had taken pai...
I am more human than rational.
I once had every hope,’ he says. ‘The world corrupts me, I think. Or perhaps it's just the weather. It pulls me down and makes me think like you, that one should shrink inside, down and down to a litt...
I recalled my father-in-law's aphorism To fool a judge, feign fascination, but to bamboozle the whole court, feign boredom... & I pretended to extract a speck from my eye.
I reflected that it seemed to be in the nature of human beings to spend the first part of their lives mocking the cliches and conventions of their elders and the final part mocking the cliches and con...
I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.
If we are to know ourselves, philosophy needs to maintain an ongoing dialogue with the sciences of mind.
Is It Frightening To Be Free?You said it.You Say To People 'Throw Off Your Chains' And They Make New Chains For Themselves?Seems to be a major human activity, yes.
It is a mistake, he said, to suppose that the public wants the environment protected or their lives saved and that they will be grateful to any idealist who will fight for such ends. What the public...
It is apt to be so, and it is hard to bear; for, though we do not want trumpets blown, we do like to have out little virtues appreciated, and cannot help feeling disappointed if they are not.
It is not easy to be stranded between two worlds, the sad truth is that we can never feel completely comfortable in either world
It is wrong to say that schoolmasters lack heart and are dried-up, soulless pedants! No, by no means. When a child's talent which he has sought to kindle suddenly bursts forth, when the boy puts aside...
It's natural for a man to defend what's dear to him: his own life, his home, his family. But in order to make him fight on behalf of his rulers, the rich and powerful who are too cunning to fight thei...
Man has no automatic code of survival. His particular distinction from all other living species is the necessity to act in the face of alternatives by means of volitional choice. He has no automatic k...
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