{ } magnificent work, which added an incalculable sum to the wealth of America and left him a comparatively poor man, is well known. His own simple account of his discoveries runs to 12 volumes and is incomplete. I was one of the few men whom he admi...
People do more for their fellows than return favors and punish cheaters. They often perform generous acts without the slightest hope for payback ranging from leaving a tip in a restaurant they will never visit again to throwing themselves on a live g...
A student of Syrian affairs soon becomes used to paradox. A comparatively small country, narrowly chauvinistic and jealous of its national sovereignty, Syria is nevertheless the repository, and has often been the origin, of oecumenical and transcende...
The first phase of modernism, which so far as the English language goes we associate with Pound and Yeats, Wyndham Lewis and Eliot and Joyce, was clerkly enough, sceptical in many ways; and yet we can without difficulty convict most of these authors ...
We do not need definite beliefs because their objects are necessarily true. We need them because they enable us to stand on steady spots from which the truth may be glimpsed. And not simply glimpsed—because certainly revelation is available outside...
Because of this false idea, they devised an aesthetic belief in making the exterior of an object a reflection of the practical functions of the interior and of the constructive idea. Yet these analyses of utility and necessity that, according to thei...
If I have so far argued that Foucault is a kind of closet liberal and thus deeply modern, I need to be equally critical of evangelical (and especially American) Christianity's modernity and its appropriation of Enlightenment notions of the autonomous...
I was born in Iran, left at a very young age - less than a year old - and grew up and was educated in the West.
Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.
And I thought the whole point of my education was that violence IS the answer.
You musn't neglect your education in favor of your studies.
The existence of guilty sense is so important in education and religion.
In our so-called democracy we are accustomed to give the majority what they want rather than educate them to understand what is best for them.
I like learning new stuff, and continuing to educate myself as best I can.
Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.
If education does not create a need for the best in life, then we are stuck in an undemocratic, rigid caste society.
The artist is an educator of artists of the future who are able to understand and in the process of understanding perform unexpected - the best - evolutions.
No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.
Educating young people about the harms of drugs is essential.
Earth is a school of darkness and your purpose is to educate yourself of your light.
An educated theologian: someone who's better at rationalizing what they're pretending to know.
