Like a child exploring the attic of an old house on a rainy day, discovering a trunk full of treasure and then… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
In comparative terms, there's no poverty in America by a long shot. Heritage Foundation political scientist Robert Rector has worked up figures… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“Moderates in every faith are obliged to loosely interpret (or simply ignore) much of their canons in the interests of living in… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“Virtually all letter writers confessed how their encounter with Nietzsche's philosophy either emboldened or chastened them, liberated them from old falsehoods, or… — Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen Copy Share Image
So-called Western Civilization, as practised in half of Europe, some of Asia and a few parts of North America, is better than… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“She’d thought Troy stank: the corpse piles, the fires, the fish guts thoughtfully left out for the gods—gee fucking thanks, guys, just… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“People aren't crazy, they’re just reacting normally to an abnormally crazy world.” — J.S.B. Morse Copy Share Image
Most big companies don't like you very much, except hotels, airlines and Microsoft, which don't like you at all. — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“Critical thinking is an unavoidable part of growing up. We do not become adults without it. But in the modern world, this… — Marcus J. Borg Copy Share Image
A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“And while [we] do have possibilities that are vast and magnificent and almost infinite in scope, it's important to remember that our… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Every well-thought-out rebuttal to dogma, every scrap of intelligent logic, every absurdist reduction of some bullying stance is the antidote. — George Sanders Copy Share Image
Revisiting the Revolutionary War is a bracing reminder that the fate of a continent, and the shape of the modern world, turned… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Different groups in the [Middle East] drew two lessons from [return of the shah in Iran] - one, that Americans were willing… — Bernard Lewis Copy Share Image
The streets, at least in this part of town, seemed impossibly clean in comparison to London. The public telephones were unvandalised. For… — Clive James Copy Share Image
“Fresh newsprint, good coffee, assorted texts, some messages on her BlackBerry, what more could the modern world offer?” — Margaret Drabble Copy Share Image
“The phrase “slow reading” goes back at least as far as the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, who in 1887 described himself as a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The lessons of the First Amendment are as urgent in the modern world as the 18th Century when it was written. One… — Anthony Kennedy Copy Share Image
The propensity to intellectualize is itself both essential and dangerous. I think in our modern world we are much more aware of… — Talal Asad Copy Share Image
Our modern world of old story is completely failing humanity. This is the reason that increasing numbers of people have become and… — Satish Kumar Copy Share Image
The thing most worth doing in this modern world [is to] create jobs that men can work at, and be proud of,… — Nevil Shute Copy Share Image
The beast is the modern world that we live in! The material world. The physical world. The world of illusion that we… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
“The obvious cure for the tragic shortcomings of human intuition in a high-tech world is education. And this offers priorities for educational… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“It is not uncommon in the modern world for people to retreat into the world of books to escape from the realities… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
“We believe that information is an enlightening agent, but I can assure you it is not. We consume information, but we can’t… — R.F. Georgy Copy Share Image
