There is a widespread refusal to let children know that the source of much that goes wrong in life is due to our very own natures - the propensity of all men for acting aggressively, asocially, selfishly, out of anger and anxiety. Instead, we want our ch
A house without a cat or a dog is the house of a scoundrel. -- Portugese Proverb
The worst things seem to be for a school to work with methods of fear, force, and artificial authority. Such treatment destroys the healthy feelings, dignity, and self-confidence of the pupils. All that is provided is a servile helot. -- Albert Einstein
Some really bizarre things have been happening in this country. -- Jeffrey S. Victor, from Satanic Panic
If any one man, in his own proper person, afford stuff for a good joke to anybody, let him not be backward, but let him cheerfully allow him to spend and be spent in that way. And the man that has anything bountifully laughable about him, be sure there i
A man becomes not a Brahmin by long hair or family or birth. The man in whom there is truth and holiness, he is in joy and he is a Brahmin. -- Verse 393, The Dhammapada
A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. -- E.M. Forster, Howard's End
Don't brood too much... on the superiority of the unseen to the seen. It's true, but to brood on it is medieval. Our business is not to contrast the two, but to reconcile them. -- E.M. Forster, Howard's End
Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism - the great masters of the past boasted all they could of it and found it magical -- Ezra Pound
And so, my friends, we don't know a thing, and not even our science can tell us sooth; for it is no more than, so to say, an eagerness for thruths, no matter where their allure may lead. And so it seems to me that here again we have a still greater, more
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