...The human mind is a complicated place...We hold on to things, images, words, ideas, histories that we don't even know we're holding on to.
By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This is to me is a miracle.
Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.
Sylvi wished she could gouge out the look in Dorogin's stony eyes, and change the course of history. She wished Fthoom had been eaten by a sea monster.
The thought of a comedy with paid prostitutes always seemed so silly and purposeless, for a person hired by me could never take the place of my imagination of a 'cruel mistress'.
Nature has made a mistake in the choice of my sexuality and I must do a life-long penance for it, for the moral power to suffer the unavoidable with dignity is lost.
I have also fantasised myself to be his female slave, but this does not suffice, for after all every woman can be the slave of her husband.
It has been argued that close attention to the history of science is indispensable for doing good philosophy of science.
Never underestimate the power of a pity fuck, which makes for about ninety percent of women’s collective dating history.
As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue will do after achieving absolute power is kill.
Maybe that's why I'd been chosen to become the first female Reaper in history. I think the boys had been losing too many souls.
The art of living has no history: it does not evolve: the pleasure which vanishes vanishes for good, there is no substitute for it. Other pleasures come, which replace nothing. , nothing but mutations.
I really don't even know you, and yet, in my life, you are forever entangled; to my history, inextricably bound.
You can believe history books when they tell you when wars were fought. You just can’t trust them as to why.
Those words . . . national and portrait. They were both to do with identity: the identity of a culture (place, language and history), the identity of an individual human being as an object for mimetic representation.
, a brilliant scientist, happened to marry a still more brilliant one— , the famous —and is the only great scientist in history who is consistently identified as the husband of someone else.
The most important things to remember about back story are that (a) everyone has a history and (b) most of it isn’t very interesting.
Chez les Tigres noirs du Sri Lanka on entrainait les femmes combatantes qui n'étaient pas vierges à passer une journée avec une grenade dans le vagin. (ch. 2)
What is a course of history, or philosophy, or poetry, no matter how well selected, or the best society, or the most admirable routine of life, compared with the discipline of looking always at what is to be seen?
Upon examination of a people’s history, beware the story teller’s motives.
We made history when President Obama appointed Sonia Sotomayor, a proud Latina, the first Hispanic Supreme Court justice. And as the President likes to say, 'Every single one of them wasn't just the best Latino for the job, but the best person for th...
