The thing I love most about my job is watching people age backward, becoming more lively and energetic as they free themselves from situations that are toxic to their essential selves.
It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.
Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species.
Scientific truth is universal, because it is only discovered by the human brain and not made by it, as art is.
It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
Children can feel, but they cannot analyse their feelings; and if the analysis is partially effected in thought, they know not how to express the result of the process in words.
care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.
Human life and human labour were near. I must struggle on: strive to live and bend to toil like the rest.
Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed; but judgement untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition.
Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.
Little girl, a memory without blot or contamination must be an exquisite treasure-an inexhaustible source of pure refreshment:is it not?
Night was come, and her planets were risen: a safe, still night: too serene for the companionship of fear.
Besides this earth, and besides the race of men, there is an invisible world and a kingdom of spirits: that world is around us, for it is everywhere.
Unfortunately, Susan didn't remember what Jane Fulton once said, 'Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.
the more aware they become,however vaugely,of ambitions & of threats which transcend their immediate locales, the more trapped they seem to feel.
P6-the sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within sociey.
No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking.
A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of gratitude.
Saying that you are moral because you believe in a god is like saying you are an economist because you play monopoly.
Physics tells us observations can't be predicted absolutely. Rather, there's a range of possible observations each with a different probability.
People pushing the idea that everyone can live to be 100 are perpetuating a myth that goes all the way back to the Bible.