In how many minds should I go crazy? Whom should I ask?
Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness.
'Aging' has been bad ever since we figured out it led to dying.
There are hundreds of thousands of words that aren't in any print dictionary today... because there's no space for all of them.
The food in such places is so tasteless because the members associate spices and garlic with just the sort of people they're trying to keep out.
Libraries are the ultimate restaurants for brain food. I sleep better knowing there are libraries. I would take a bullet for a librarian.
It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.
'Lord Of The Rings' fandom was massive, worldwide, entrenched. Generally it had been part of the fans' life all their life, because they had it read to them as children; they'd become Tolkien students.
In valley drift we meet commonly with the bones of quadrupeds which graze on plains bordering rivers.
We all know we are unique individuals, but we tend to see others as representatives of groups.
For real human beings, the only realism is an embodied realism.
In short, philosophical theories are largely the product of the hidden hand of the cognitive unconscious.
Just think about it: in every shop in the reading world since 1956, there has been two feet of book-space devoted to Tolkien.
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.
Perimeter is not meaning, but it changes meaning,/as wit increases distance, and compassion erodes it.
People think of black English as ungrammatical, but it bears the same relationship to standard English as contemporary Hebrew does to ancient Hebrew.
The problem then with Jesus is that he cannot be removed from his time and transplanted into our own without simply creating him anew
Farewell," they cried, "Wherever you fare till your eyries receive you at the journey's end!" ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
When anger rushes unrestrained to action, like a hot steed, it stumbles on its way. The man of thought strikes deepest and strikes safely.
Anger becomes limiting, restricting. You can't see through it. While anger is there, look at that, too. But after a while, you have to look at something else.
