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...the crimes of violence committed for selfish, personal motives are historically insignificant compared to those committed ad majorem gloriam Dei, out of…
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There is only one prospect worse than being chained to an intolerable existence: The nightmare of a botched attempt to end it.
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Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition. Let Othello subject Desdemona to a lie-detector test; his jealousy will…
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If the creator has a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely would have meant for us to stick it…
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The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.
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In creating the human brain, evolution has wildly overshot the mark.
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As modern physics started with the Newtonian revolution, so modern philosophy starts with what one might call the Cartesian Catastrophe. The catastrophe…
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The real achievement in discoveries ... is seeing an analogy where no one saw one before. .. The essence of discovery is…
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The evolution of the brain not only overshot the needs of prehistoric man, it is the only example of evolution providing a…
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In the meantime, the educated public continues to believe that Darwin has provided all the relevant answers by the magic formula of…
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When a chess player looks at the board, he does not see a static mosaic, a 'still life', but a magnetic field…
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No writer or teacher or artist can escape the responsibility of influencing others whether he intends to or not, whether he is…
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Antiquity! thou wondrous charm, what art thou? that being nothing art everything? When thou wert, thou wert not antiquity - then thou…
— Charles Lamb
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He is the very Janus of poets; he wears almost everywhere two faces; and you have scarce begun to admire the one,…
— John Dryden
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Everything is bilateral in the domain of thought. Ideas are binary. Janus is the myth of criticism and the symbol of genius.…
— Honore de Balzac
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Entropy is Janus-faced. Its upside surprises are redemptive and favorable to freedom. It is freedom of choice. But the carrier itself requires…
— George Gilder
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No man is an island- he is a holon. A Janus-faced entity who, looking inward, sees himself as a self-contained unique whole,…
— Arthur Koestler
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I prefer to see myself as the Janus, the two-faced god who is half Pollyanna and half Cassandra, warning of the future…
— Ray Bradbury
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It is a curious emotion, this certain homesickness I have in mind. With Americans, it is a national trait, as native to…
— Carson McCullers
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Jonah peered critically up at the Renaissance masterpiece. "Man, those copies don't due it justice. This one's the truth!" "Only a Janus,"…
— Gordon Korman
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Hermes rolled his eyes. "Surely you've seen network TV lately. It's clear they don't know whether they're coming or going. That's because…
— Rick Riordan
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Middle age is Janus-faced. As we look back on our accomplishments and our failures to achieve the things we wanted, we look…
— Unknown Author
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The book grew out of the introduction I did for Brady's Gates of Janus. I knew that the writing in that introduction…
— Peter Sotos
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