I also pursue excellence, and Father told me that it can only ever be pursued, never caught – though.
Robert Heinlein says in Have Spacesuit, Will Travel that the only things worth studying are history, languages, and science. Actually, he adds maths, but honestly they left out the mathematical part of my brain.
I love you like stones fall downwards, like the sun rises.
You can never be sure where you are with magic.
I wish magic was more dramatic.
The next day we left for Rome. I had decided to make my books last and read only one book a week, but instead I gorged myself on them.
We, and Plato, meant nothing but the best for them! And when I say the best I mean it literally; what we wanted for them was nothing but excellence, virtue, arete. They say you can’t want that for somebody else, they have to want it for themselves. Well, perhaps they have a point. But Plato wrote that seeking to increase someone else’s excellence is the best form of love.
Marx is like Plato, he has dreams that can’t come true as long as people are people.
But imagine how he’d feel if you said that to him. It’s not considering him as a person but as part of a class of inferior things.
Without heads, where might they keep their minds, if they have them?” Kebes put in. “In their livers, obviously,” Sokrates said.
I don’t know what I think about Jesus, but I know what I think about Aslan.
People tell you to write what you know, but I’ve found that writing what you know is much harder than making it up.
And his mother, especially as Botticelli had painted her and Auge carved her, seemed like a perfectly nice goddess.
I still don’t know if you understand!” “That everyone is of equal significance and that the differences between individuals are more important than the differences between broad classes? Oh yes, I’m coming to understand that really well.” I.
Peace is better than war. There’s too much glorification of war and not enough glorification of peace, and especially not enough glorification of the importance of the doves.
Our souls know harmony and proportion before we are born, so although I had never seen anything like it, my soul resonated at once to the beauty of the city. Immediately.
We had already agreed that, Father,” Penn said. “And of course they will likewise take the greater shares when we eat you. Berend and I are established, while our brother and sisters are still in need.
I talked far more than I should have. I knew it even at the time. I just couldn’t stop myself. I didn’t actually interrupt anyone, which would be unforgivable, I just didn’t hold back enough to give other people a turn.
No wonder fairies run away from pain. They like to be entertained, and it’s awfully boring.
When I got to Aberdare, I got off and walked up the cwm to the ruins we call Osgiliath.