Ends Quote by George F. Kennan

We must master our egoism, and through this mastery, step outside ourselves and educate ourselves in giving. Fasting requires that we rediscover all that…

— Tariq Ramadan

Tears may be considered as the natural and involuntary resource of the mind overcome by some sudden and violent emotion, before ithas had time…

— William Hazlitt

Had Christ not risen we could not believe Him to be what He declared Himself when He "made Himself equal with God." But He…

— B. B. Warfield

Forgiveness is the act of admitting we are like other people. We are prone to make mistakes that cause confusion, inflict pain, and miscommunicate…

— Christina Baldwin

I don't have to hate any person because I can always start anew, I can always reconcile.

— Nhat Hanh

Our day-to-day lives recording and touring aren't that different from those of Metallica, even though the perceived worldview is totally different. So that can…

— Robin Pecknold

As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends correspondingly to increase. And the dictator will do well to encourage that freedom...it will help…

— Aldous Huxley

The idea of determinism combined with complete human responsibility struck me as very hard to reconcile with an idea of justice, let alone mercy.

— Ken MacLeod

Philosophers have done wisely when they have told us to cultivate our reason rather than our feelings, for reason reconciles us to the daily…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

The most difficult idea to reconcile in war is the notion that anything is going to be solved by killing a stranger, or in…

— Walter Dean Myers

People look at the same passage, and one person will say this is the best thing he's ever read, and another person will say…

— Paul Auster

The inmost spirit of poetry, in other words, is at bottom, in every recorded case, the voice of pain – and the physical body,…

— Ted Hughes