For thousands of years, it had been nature--and its supposed creator--that had had a monopoly on awe. It had been the icecaps, the deserts, the volcanoes and the glaciers that had given us a sense of finitude and limitation and had elicited a feeling...
The person with a secular mentality feels himself to be the center of the universe. Yet he is likely to suffer from a sense of meaninglessness and insignificance because he knows he’s but one human among five billion others - all feeling themselves...
You know when you send a text message to someone and you don't get a response right away, you feel depressed? You send a text message to someone you really like and you get a response right away you feel happy? You feel happy, the body, it creates th...
If, in all that you wish to do, you begin by asking yourself: am I certain that I would wish to do this an infinite number of times? This should be for you the most solid centre of gravity . . . My doctrine says, the task is to live your life in such...
I thought I saw how stories of this kind could steal past a certain inhibition which had paralysed much of my own religion in childhood. Why did one find it so hard to feel as one was told one ought to feel about God or the sufferings of Christ? I th...
Many veterans feel guilty because they lived while others died. Some feel ashamed because they didn’t bring all their men home and wonder what they could have done differently to save them. When they get home they wonder if there’s something wron...
Today I prayed for Boston, for America, my home away from home. Today, I realized how lucky we Sri Lankans are to have peace in our country. How I feel today, hearing of the bombs going off in the city brings back memories of how I used to feel four ...
once upon a time I would’ve killed to feel numb, like I do now. I would have reveled in the abyss of emptiness that fills my heart. the fear of the unknown would’ve made me want to kill myself. again. but now I feel nothing. I’ve been stripped ...
It's true what they say, then-history is written by the victors.
I have come to understand something about novels," Tessa said. "And what is that?" "They are not true.
Not that believing such things has anything to do with whether they are true. You see that, don't you?
Shadows and light deceived us, but sounds we followed true.
. . . a statement that is repugnant to one's beliefs can be as true as one that is pleasurable.
Cleverness isn't always true nor is the truth always clever.
Soulmate" is an overused term, but a true soul connection is very rare, and very real.
Sometimes, the embers are better then the campfire. It's strange, but it's true.
Kant thought things, not because they were true, but because he was Kant.
If there is such a thing as no guts no glory, then “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” is a true story.
Try not to seek after the true Only cease to cherish opinions. (172)
It's true, some senior Hungarian writers are not known for their laughter. There is a strong Germanic influence - an attitude that if it's enjoyable it can't possibly be literature.
If you dedicate yourself to something, you can achieve it. It's simple, but it's true, and your age is just an excuse.
