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Drama school is fundamentally practical. I didn't write any essays, so I came out with a BA honors degree in acting.

Emilia Clarke

Here I want to stress that perception of losing one’s mind is based on culturally derived and socially ingrained stereotypes as to the significance of symptoms such as hearing voices, losing temporal and spatial orientation, and sensing that one is...

Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates

It is extraordinarily entertaining to watch the historians of the past ... entangling themselves in what they were pleased to call the "problem" of . They invented the most complicated and astonishing reasons both for her success as a sovereign and f...

Are Women Human? Astute and Witty Essays on the Role of Women in Society

In reaction against the age-old slogan, "woman is the weaker vessel," or the still more offensive, "woman is a divine creature," we have, I think, allowed ourselves to drift into asserting that "a woman is as good as a man," without always pausing to...

Are Women Human? Astute and Witty Essays on the Role of Women in Society

It is good to recall that three centuries ago, around the year 1660, two of the greatest monuments of modern history were erected, one in the West and one in the East; St. Paul's Cathedral in London and the Taj Mahal in Agra. Between them, the two sy...

Ideals and Realities: Selected Essays of Abdus Salam

I felt despair. The word’s overused and banalified now, despair, but it’s a serious word, and I’m using it seriously. For me it denotes a simple admixture — a weird yearning for death combined with a crushing sense of my own smallness and fut...

A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

There comes a point when you realize that these things, these brands, aren't "enough." Having more or better or best doesn't provide you with a lasting sense of having more or being better or being best. It's a rather fleeting experience, this romant...

Look Both Ways: Illustrated Essays on the Intersection of Life and Design

Imagine the same scene in HAMLET if Pullman had written it. Hamlet, using a mystic pearl, places the poison in the cup to kill Claudius. We are all told Claudius will die by drinking the cup. Then Claudius dies choking on a chicken bone at lunch. The...

Transhuman and Subhuman: Essays on Science Fiction and Awful Truth

Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination. Art is the aesthetic ordering of experience to express meanings in symbolic terms, and the reordering of nature--the qualities of space and time--in new perceptual and material for...

The Winding Passage: Essays and Sociological Journeys, 1960-1980

Existe este hecho curioso: cuanto más intensa ha sido la religión de cualquier periodo, y más profunda la creencia dogmática, han sido mayor la crueldad y peores las circunstancias. En las llamadas edades de la fe, cuando los hombres realmente cr...

Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects

Matthew Arnold made the horrible prophecy that literature would increasingly replace religion. It has, and it's taken on all the features of bitter persecution, great intolerance, and traffic in relics. All literature becomes a sacred text. A sacred ...

On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature

[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.

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Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness.

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On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.

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The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

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If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.

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Meditation is a powerful and full study as can effectually taste and employ themselves.

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Certainly, if he still has himself, a man of understanding has lost nothing.

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No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.

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Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents.

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How many things served us yesterday for articles of faith, which today are fables for us?

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