Remember, science fiction's always been the kind of first level alert to think about things to come. It's easier for an audience to take warnings from sci-fi without feeling that we're preaching to them. Every science fiction movie I have ever seen, ...
I think that the thematic, formal history of the literary form ultimately harkens back to a different political system. That is to say, a feudal order: the aristocratic dispensation of leisure time, the refinements of the self. With the shift from fe...
G.K. Chesterton once wrote that the trouble with people who do not believe in God is not that they then believe in nothing. It is that they will believe in anything. And the biggest anything around for people to believe in, in our day, is the State. ...
One of the purest souls ever to live on this fallen planet was Nicholas Herman, known as Brother Lawrence. He wrote very little, but what he wrote has seemed to several generations of Christians to be so rare and so beautiful as to deserve a place ne...
Insularity is the foundation of ethnocentrism and intolerance; when you only know of those like yourself, it is easy to imagine that you are alone in the world or alone in being good and right in the world. Exposure to diversity, on the contrary, is ...
It's called the Infinity Effect.
Power is not a means; it is an end.
Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.
When boasting ends, there dignity begins.
Endings to be useful must be inconclusive.
Imagination is the other end of Reality.
Nothing is the other end of Reality.
Metaphysics is the other end of physics.
Energy is the other end of Matter.
I'm completely optimistic - I know the end is coming!
Wisdom begins where intelligence ends.
Diagnosis is not the end, but the beginning of practice.
A moment’s beginning ends in a moment
Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.
If we did not look to marriage as the principal source of happiness, fewer marriages would end in tears.
In every death, a busy world comes to an end.
