there is something magical and addicting about going somewhere, being alone, and finding yourself in parts of the world you never knew existed, finding parts of yourself you never knew you would find.
Men are moved most by their religion; especially when it is irreligion.
I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.
Unfortunately in this world of ours, each person views things through a certain medium, which prevents his seeing them in the same light as others…
There are several other sources of enjoyment in a long voyage, which are of a more reasonable nature. The map of the world ceases to be a blank; it becomes a picture full of the most varied and animat...
The world is perhaps ultimately to be defined as a place of suffering. Man is a suffering animal, subject to ceaseless anxiety and pain and fear.
Conventional wisdom would have one believe that it is insane to resist this, the mightiest of empires, but what history really shows is that today's empire is tomorrow's ashes; that nothing lasts fore...
That is the problem with our world. Nobody trusts anybody. We are just waiting for somebody to save us.
Moshup made this island He dragged his toe through the water and cut this land from the mainland. He went on then, with much animation, to relate a fabulous tale of giants and whales and shape-shiftin...
A beetle may or may not be inferior to a man — the matter awaits demonstration; but if he were inferior by ten thousand fathoms, the fact remains that there is probably a beetle view of things of whic...
The more you get set into your own world, the smaller your world becomes.
I'd made it back to the land of the living. No matter how boring or mediocre a world it might be, this was it.
The "self," it seems today, is at the core of the nation's worldview rather than others (the common good), or God.
We are stimulated to emotional response, not by works that confirm our sense of the world, but by works that challenge it.
Discipline is aimed at formation for a specific end, and that end is determined by our founding narrative.
Everybody has theology whether they admit it or not.
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