This is a source of much embarrassment and puzzlement to me about myself. (It) probably requires psychoanalysis of why there is this… — Zulima Farber Copy Share Image
Far from being an aberration that is not representative of Christianity, the persecution of heretics follows logically from the connection of faith… — Shadia Drury Copy Share Image
Fat girl, terrestrial, my summer, my night, How is it I find you in difference, see you there In a moving contour,… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
A part of that [timewrap] for me was growing up in a culture that violence had always been a part of. It… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Many who think themselves infinitely superior to the aberrations of Nazism, and sincerely hate all manifestations, work at the same time for… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Looking at the data and at my drug use and evaluating it carefully just let me see that I wasn't special, but… — Carl Hart Copy Share Image
This Constitutional Republic called America is an historic aberration. Any honest student of history will note that the prevailing socio-economic system is… — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
When I first began examining the global-warming scare, I found nothing more puzzling than the way officially approved scientists kept on being… — Christopher Booker Copy Share Image
The alternative of hypothetical universalism, according to which Christ's work is sufficient for all but efficient only for the elect, was alive… — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
Christianity does not oppose debauchery and uncontrollable passions and the like as much as it opposes... flat mediocrity, this nauseating atmosphere, this… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
(Baudelaire) had descended to the bottom of the inexhaustible mine, had picked his way along abandoned or unexplored galleries, and had finally… — Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
One correspondent, who is into psychology, notes that in his experience people who are hoplophobes are nearly always nutty in other ways,… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
When people put their ballots in the boxes, they are, by that act, inoculated against the feeling that the government is not… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
It is almost impossible to describe happiness, because at the time it feels entirely natural, as if all the rest of your… — Margaret George Copy Share Image
When Martha first met me, I was anxious and jumpy. I was always tapping my foot, rocking, or exhibiting some other behavioral… — John Elder Robison Copy Share Image
“Could it be that the atomic isolation of the husband and wife nucleus with an orbiting child or two is in fact… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
One person looks around and sees a universe created by a god who watches over its long unfurling, marking the fall of… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
Displacement of any part of the skeletal frame may press against nerves, which are the channels of communication, intensifying or decreasing their… — Daniel D. Palmer Copy Share Image
Observation is the generative act in scientific discovery. For all its aberrations, the evidence of the senses is essentially to be relied… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
Most of us abandoned the idea of a life full of adventure and travel sometime between puberty and our first job. Our… — Tim Cahill Copy Share Image
The Christian view that all intercourse outside marriage is immoral was, as we see in the above passages from St. Paul, based… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The fancies that take their monstrous birth from the spinelessness and boredom of usurped wealth bring in their wake every defect ...… — Jean Lorrain Copy Share Image
Stories about mental aberration and oddity only make sense in context. Just how do people live with someone who is peculiar, gifted,… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image