When Alexander the Great visited the philosopher Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for him, Diogenes is said to have replied: ‘Yes, stand a little less between me and the sun.’ It is what every citizen is entitled to ask of his gove...
I ask: which of the two, civil or natural life, is more likely to become insufferable to those who live it? We see about us practically no people who do not complain about their existence; many even deprive themselves of it to the extent they are abl...
Low states are a like a poison to the psyche. Millions of people throughout the world take tranquillizers each day to combat depression, but this does not tackle its root cause, which is found in the basic state of the internal energies of the psyche...
I am simply an average, everyday Christian guy who has been radically changed by the good news about God’s presence in His world. This has primarily happened as I have learned how to read the Bible for what it says, in the way it says it.
One finds the same basic mythological themes in all the religions of the world, from the most primitive to the most sophisticated, from the North American plains to European forests to Polynesian atolls. The imagery of myth is a language, a lingua fr...
I would get records by Earl Scruggs... I would tune my banjo down and I'd pick out the songs note by note. Learned how to play that way. I persevered. There was a book written by Pete Seeger, who showed you some basic strumming and some basic picking...
The team's aims are do to the best we can basically.
The camera basically is a license to explore.
Basically, if you're not a utopianist, you're a schmuck.
Basically, I live to do gigs.
Universities are basically socialist institutions.
I basically was a precocious little kid.
Basically I try not to knock other comedians.
Basically, my life is so boring, it's embarrassing.
I've basically got an album full of singles.
Credibility is a basic survival tool.
Whatever comes my way I'm basically interested in.
Basically, between 1989 and 1994, I hadn't taken a vacation.
Science is basically an inoculation against charlatans.
I used to be a Democrat, now I'm basically a Republican.
I think basically an actor is a salesman.
