Afghan women, as a group, I think their suffering has been equaled by very few other groups in recent world history.
The history of science has been one long series of violent brainstorms, as successive generations have come to terms with increasing levels of queerness in the universe.
I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.
There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.
Personal computers were created by some teenagers in garages because the, the wisdom of the computer industry was that people didn't want these little toys on their desk.
Looking back, I think I was always musical. My dad was very musical, and I think my mom was musical.
The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.
The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.
There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.
He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.
My fears are agitated to an extreme degree and the dread of death involves me in a stupor of chilling indisposition.
Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
Surely martyrs, irrespective of the special phase of the divine idea for which they gladly give up their bodies to torture and to death, are the truest heroes of history.
Only in the English countryside could violent death remain something that is 'cosy.'
When people talk about the death of the novel, they are speaking of the need for the birth of something different.
A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
Almost everybody accepts that some people can be killed. 'The concept of 'brain death' - the belief that people on respirators can legitimately be killed - shows that.
