Napoleon once said, “What is history, but a fable agreed upon?” He smiled. “By its very nature, history is always a one-sided account.
The most self-righteous in life become the most fearful in death.
Science itself caused half the problems it was trying to solve. “Progress” was Mother Earth’s ultimate malignancy.
Tempat tergelap di neraka dicadangkan untuk mereka yang tetap bersikap netral disaat krisis moral.
Seven Deadly Sins. Saligia is an acronym for: superbia, avaritia, luxuria, invidia, gula, ira, and acedia.
Human beings are evolving into something different,” he declared. “We are becoming a hybrid species – a fusion of biology and technology.
We exist with or without God. We are the inevitable result of entropy. Life is not the point of the universe. Life is simply what the universe creates and reproduces in order to dissipate energy.
To permit ignorance is to empower it. To do nothing as our leaders proclaim absurdities is a crime of complacency. As is letting our schools and churches teach outright untruths to our children.
The Lord works in mysterious ways.
Actually, Da Vinci was in tune with the balance between male and female. He believed that a human soul could not be enlightened unless it had both male and female elements.
Which would you choose? A world without religion? Or a world without science?
In Darwinian terms, a religion that ignores scientific facts and refuses to change its beliefs is like a fish stranded in a slowly drying pond and refusing to flip to deeper water because it doesn’t want to believe its world has changed.
Kohler shrugged. “Sometimes to find truth, one must move mountains.
One great work of art inspired by another.
When a computer creates art, who is the artist – the computer or the programmer? At MIT, a recent exhibit of highly accomplished algorithmic art had put an awkward spin on the Harvard humanities course: Is Art What Makes Us Human?
Madness is an ostrich who sticks her head in the sand while a pack of hyenas closes in around her.
The quest for the Holy Grail is the quest to kneel before the bones of Mary Magdalene. A journey to pray at the feet of the outcast one.
Any man can stay sober in a desert, he mused, but only the loyal can sit in an oasis and refuse to part his lips.
Fate had cruel timing.
Where we come from... is not nearly as startling as where we are going.