Speaking of high-end shoe designers, in 2011 it was fascinating to see the design company of Christian Louboutin try to stop the company Yves Saint Laurent from producing high heels with red soles, claiming that Louboutin was the originator of the re...
I see this as the central issue of our time: how to find a substitute for war in human ingenuity, imagination, courage, sacrifice, patience... War is not inevitable, however persistent it is, however long a history it has in human affairs. It does no...
It was a lesson she was still learning. When she had first started nursing, she had taken every death personally, like she was losing her father all over again. Every patient lost under her care was a little piece of death she would carry around with...
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
The blues is life itself.
Identity is the history that has gone into bone and blood and reshaped the flesh. Identity is not what we were but what we have become what we are at this moment.
To be a philosophical Sceptic is the first and most essential step towards being a sound, believing Christian.
Whenever a woman strengthens the faith of a child, she contributes to the strength of a family - now and in the future.
Truth is not as pompous and romantic as myth ... but it has the immeasurable value of being the Truth.
Is numerical equality (forced by the use of specific physical units) the same as conceptual equality? Of course NOT!
The laws of history are as absolute as the laws of physics, and if the probabilities of error are greater, it is only because history does not deal with as many humans as physics does atoms, so that individual variations count for more.
You are not your virginity. You are a human being. The state of your hymen has nothing to do with your worth.
Suicide isn't something people do to hurt other people. It's something people do to release themselves from pain.
Much of human history has consisted of unequal conflicts between the haves and the have-nots.
Ignorance, when voluntary, is criminal, and a man may be properly charged with that evil which he neglected or refused to learn how to prevent.
Julian recognized that the strength of the orthodox Church rested to a great extent on the imperial discrimination in its favour. According to Ammianus, he tried to atomize the Church by ending the system:
He [Augustine] admitted: 'I am the sort of man who writes because he has made progress, and who makes progress by writing.'
It is then he realises that certain things loom larger than forgiveness and reconciliation: memory, for one, and history, bloody history.
There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up the pen to write.
[R]evolutions of government cannot be effected by the mere force of argument and reasoning;
I feel like a failure." The expression comes so naturally that we forget it is a figure of speech: the language of business applied to the soul.
