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You see, gentlemen, reason is an excellent thing, there's no disputing that, but reason is nothing but reason and satisfies only the rational side of man's nature, while will is a manifestation of the whole life, that is, of the whole human life incl...

Notes from Underground

I've tried to get the angel to watch MTV so I can learn the vocabulary of your music, but even with the gift of tongues, I'm having trouble learning to speak hip-hop. Why is it that one can busta rhyme or busta move anywhere but you must busta cap in...

Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal

We all have an unscientific weakness for being always in the right, and this weakness seems to be particularly common among professional and amateur politicians. But the only way to apply something like scientific method in politics is to proceed on ...

The Poverty of Historicism

When they killed him, Mother wouldn't hold her peace, so they slit her throat. I was stupid then, being only nine, and I fought to save them both. But the thorns held me tight. I've learned to appreciate thorns since. The thorns taught me the game. T...

Prince of Thorns

In other words, I have tried to learn in my writing a monastic lesson I could probably not have learned otherwise: to let go of my idea of myself, to take myself with more than one grain of salt... In religious terms, this is simply a matter of accep...

A Thomas Merton Reader

Ironically for someone who had so long asserted his own individuality as his first and best defense against insults of any kind, I discovered that faith in myself proved to be the least formidable strength I possessed when confronting alone organized...

Faith of My Fathers: A Family Memoir

Betrayals that make your soul scream so loud you wonder why no one else hears it. In the end, we are all alone in that private hell. But life isn't about learning to forgive those who have hurt you or forgetting the past. It's about learning to forgi...

Sherrilyn Kenyon

It is a fundamental truth that the responsibilities of motherhood cannot be successfully delegated. No, not to day-care centers, not to schools, not to nurseries, not to babysitters. We become enamored with men’s theories such as the idea of presch...

Ezra Taft Benson

Marquise de Merteuil: When I came out into society, I was fifteen. I already knew that the role I was condemned to, namely to keep quiet and do what I was told, gave me the perfect opportunity to listen and observe. Not to what people told me, which ...

Dangerous Liaisons

Major T. J. "King" Kong: Survival kit contents check. In them you'll find: one forty-five caliber automatic; two boxes of ammunition; four days' concentrated emergency rations; one drug issue containing antibiotics, morphine, vitamin pills, pep pills...

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

General Jack D. Ripper: Mandrake, do you recall what Clemenceau once said about war? Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: No, I don't think I do, sir, no. General Jack D. Ripper: He said war was too important to be left to the generals. When he said that, 50...

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Yes - I've learned from my mistakes, and I'm sure I could repeat them perfectly.

The Closed Circle

My parents would not permit ugly language in the house, which was okay with me. I didn't want to learn German anyway.

Chip Chip Chaw!

Geniuses and prophets do not usually excel in professional learning, and their originality, if any, is often due precisely to the fact that they do not.

Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy

Mediation - Before you learn how to meditate, you must unlearn what you think meditation might be.

Caravan of Dreams

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.

Collected Essays

All we do is to look after the opinions and learning of others: we ought to make them our own.

The Complete Essays

Failed efforts are there for you to examine and learn from.

The Clutter Breakthrough: Your Five-Step Solution to Freedom from Clutter Forever

I get into a tearing passion about something I know very little about, and when I learn more my passion ebbs away.

Castle Gay

…When you’ve know me longer, you’ll learn that I mean everything I say.” “Even the lies?” “Especially the lies. Lord Petyr…

A Clash of Kings

That's the thing you learn about values: they're what people make up to justify what they did.

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