How I long for more time... but time is a commodity even my vast fortune cannot afford.
If thoughts affect the world, then we must be very careful how we think. Destructive thoughts have influence, too, and we all know it’s far easier to destroy than it is to create.
Compassion is a universal language.
Sometimes you need to go up... to go down.
When he did, people across the world would realize that the teachings of all religions did indeed have one thing in common. They were all dead wrong.
Sin-cere. Since the days of Michelangelo, sculptors had been hiding the flaws in their work by smearing hot wax into the cracks and then dabbing the wax with stone dust. The method was considered cheating, and therefore, any sculpture “without wax” – literally sine cera – was considered a “sincere” piece of art. The phrase stuck. To this day we still sign our letters “sincerely” as a promise that we have written “without wax” and that our words are true.
Because the vast majority of the world is made up of half-wits, the President asked Mike to come onboard and dumb everything down for them.
She tried to make friends, but her peers immersed themselves in frivolities that held no interest to her. She tried to respect her elders, but most adults seemed like nothing more than aging children, lacking.
Human intellect has always evolved by rejecting outdated information in favor of new truths.
We are the sum of the interactions taking place within the mechanism.
Nature – in an effort to promote disorder – creates little pockets of order.
The Divine Comedy has nothing comedic about it. It’s called a comedy for another reason entirely. In the fourteenth century, Italian literature was, by requirement, divided into two categories: tragedy, representing high literature, was written in formal Italian; comedy, representing low literature, was written in the vernacular and geared toward the general population.
It is in hearing the voice of the devil that we can better appreciate the voice of God.
Very little in any organized faith is truly original. Religions are not born from scratch. They grow from one another. Modern religion is a collage... an assimilated historical record of man’s quest to understand the divine.
Sweet science will banish the dark religions... so that enlightened religions can flourish.
If we don’t embrace them, then we are as undeserving of life as the caveman who freezes to death because he’s afraid to start a fire.
This icon is formally known as the blade, and it represents aggression and manhood. In fact, this exact phallus symbol is still used today on modern military uniforms to denote rank.” “Indeed.” Teabing grinned. “The more penises you have, the higher your rank. Boys will be boys.
A little faith can do wonders, a little faith.
Iactura paucourm serva multos.
Kirsch smiled politely. The word “hip” went out of style decades ago.