The job of the linguist, like that of the biologist or the botanist, is not to tell us how nature should behave, or what its creations should look like, but to describe those creations in all their messy glory and try to figure out what they can teac...
The English language is like London: proudly barbaric yet deeply civilised, too, common yet royal, vulgar yet processional, sacred yet profane. Each sentence we produce, whether we know it or not, is a mongrel mouthful of Chaucerian, Shakespearean, M...
In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any s...
Whether divine or human, it is precisely the imagination that fashions and recognizes the universe as meaningful, abiding, and valuable, that is to say, as real.
The universe is so arranged that the power to destroy the climate or the ecosystem of your home planet only comes when you also have the wisdom to know that doing so is a fatal mistake. Therefore, any species that does that is suicidal, and will prob...
He's wearing his official university sweatshirt again, which puzzles me a little. I mean I'd sort of understand it more if it said Yale or Harvard or something, because then it would be a fashion choice. But why advertise the fact that you're at a un...
Pull yourself out of yourself so that you can replace yourself with the universe itself! When somebody knocks your door, if you are not there, the universe will open the door! Wisdom is to make yourself to fly away from yourself! When you leave yours...
Universal opinions are often mistaken for universal principles
Boys are universal giver, women remains universal receiver.
It's not what the universe gives us that matters. It's what we give the universe.
Funerals aren't for the dead. They're for the living.
Universal suffrage is sound in principle. The radical element is right.
That man is a religious being, is universally conceded, for it has been seen to be universally true.
Science provides an understanding of a universal experience. Arts provide a universal understanding of a personal experience.
When I was 17, I came to the U.S. to study Middle Eastern history and politics at Columbia University.
My dad was dean of fine arts at the university. I was casting bronzes in the school foundry. I was using the university as a playground.
The Ohio State University has a rich - if quiet - heritage of the arts.
Be universal in your love. You will see the universe to be the picture of your own being.
The adults don't know what's happening on the kids' universe and the kids don't know what's happening on the adults' universe.
The universe is not punishing you or blessing you. The universe is simply responding to the vibrational attitude that you are emitting.
The secret of the man who is universally interesting is that he is universally interested.
