Fearful as reality is, it is less fearful than evasions of reality. Look steadfastly into the slit, pinpointed malignant eyes of reality… — Caitlin Thomas Copy Share Image
As geographers, Sosius, crowd into the edges of their maps parts of the world which they do not know about, adding notes… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
“We fear storms and wild beasts, but we do not censor them. If we must guard ourselves from evil influences we thereby… — Philip Slater Copy Share Image
There is, indeed, no wild beast more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
“Accustomed as we are by heredity prejudices and our unsound education and training to represent ourselves the beneficial hand of Government, legislation… — Pyotr Kropotkin Copy Share Image
Civilized people are taught by logic, barbarians, by necessity, communities by tradition; and the lesson inculcated even in wild beasts by nature… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
No wild beasts are so cruel as the Christians in their dealings with each other — Ammianus Marcellinus Copy Share Image
I am writing to all the Churches and I enjoin all, that I am dying willingly for God's sake, if only you… — Ignatius of Antioch Copy Share Image
“In the cage is the lion. She paces with her memories. Her body is a record of her past. As she moves… — Susan Griffin Copy Share Image
The meanest hut with love in it is a palace fit for the gods, and a palace without love is a den… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“The god of Delos, proud in victory, Saw Cupid draw his bow's taut arc, and said: 'Mischievous boy, what are a brave… — Ovid Copy Share Image
“I was born free, and that I might live in freedom I chose the solitude of the fields; in the trees of… — Cervantes Copy Share Image
If people lacked the capacity to receive the thoughts of the men who preceded them and to pass on to others their… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image