If people can't stand being alone, they have no choice but to die
If we were to one day encounter a form of life more powerful and intelligent than our own, and it regarded us as we regard fish, what would be our argument against being eaten?
If you had to pack your whole life into a suitcase-not just the practical things, like clothing, but the memories of the people you had lost and the girl you had once been-what would you take?
It's better to lose something than never to have had
It's tempting to ask why if you fed your neighbors during the time of the earthquake and fire, you didn't do so before or after.
Not the historians. No, not them. Their greatest crime is that they presume to know what happened, how things come about, when they have only what the past chose to leave behind-- for the most part, t...
Of course, I am interested, but I would not dare to talk about them. In talking about the impact of ideas in one field on ideas in another field, one is always apt to make a fool of oneself. In these...
On their sofas of spice and feathers, the concubines also slept fretfully. In those days the Earth was still flat, and people dreamed often of falling over edges.
Perhaps the most terrible (or wonderful) thing that can happen to an imaginative youth, aside from the curse (or blessing) of imagination itself, is to be exposed without preparation to the life outsi...
Shattered by the cumulative effect of so much horror and death, Joan was again afflicted by a crisis of faith. How could a good and benevolent God let such a thing happen? How could He so terribly aff...
Show me a hero and I'll show you a man enslaved by his competence.
So, is it harder to dream about what you don´t have than to live in fear of losing what you do?
Some men because they're afraid to .
Some people might enjoy drain water if they were told it was vodka.
The idea of eternal return is a mysterious one, and Nietzsche has often perplexed other philosophers with it: to think that everything recurs as we once experienced it, and that the recurrence itself...
The party in Alobar’s head, which agitation and anxiety were throwing, now was crashed by a notion: existence can be rearranged.
Then sense. Use your sense. Not all of us are born for greatness, but all of us have sense. Make use of it. Think. Think long and well.
Then we are living in a place abandoned by God, I said, disheartened.Have you found any places where God would have felt at home? William asked me, looking down from his great height.
We are a way for the cosmos to know itself
We will embarrass our descendants, just as our ancestors embarrass us. This is moral progress.
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