The truth will set us free. But freedom is cold and empty and frightening, and lies can often be warm and beautiful.
There were rules among friends, commandments, really, and the most important one was Thou Shalt Not Lust After Thy Friend's Sister.
The foundation of adult trust is not "You will never hurt me." It is "I trust myself with whatever you do.
The more invested I am in my own ideas about reality, the more those experiences will feel like victimizations rather than the ups and downs of relating. Actually, I believe that the less I conceptualize things that way, the more likely it is that pe...
Now it is easy to perceive that the moral part of love is a factitious sentiment, engendered by society, and cried up by the women with great care and address in order to establish their empire, and secure command to that sex which ought to obey.
If it had only been for the immortality gene, humanity would have eventually managed to turn it back on. At one point in history, they would have embarked on a quest to become immortals, like the gods. But they couldn’t and the whole of humanity st...
All I knew was that hate was so deadly as any poison and did no one any good. You had to control and eliminate it, if you could.
Many Islamic clerks are spreading the discourse of violence and the spirit of hatred; then they object on the actions of ISIS! They are producing ISIS generation by another, throughout their discourse and curricula.
Electricity," Purva said, rolling the strange new word around in her mouth, giving it at once an Australian and a French inflection. "Sir William was playing around with it when we met, do you remember?" Jack said to Clare. "He was storing charges in...
But if the abberations of foolish youth made me forget suc wise lessons for a time,I have the happiness to sense at last that whatever the inclination one may have toward vice,it is difficult for an education in which the heart is involved to remain ...
Cennet, cehennem ya da benzer kavramlara gelince, doğrusu ölümünden sonra ne olduğu konusuyla sanıldığı kadar ilgili değilizdir,din sayın düşünür,dünyevi bir konudur aslında,öbür tarafla ya da göğün yedi katıyla hiçbir ilgisi ...
Momentarily, through one good eye, he could see the moon. Something below moved and he span around to where he could see the house. His family were in there. Alone. He could not protect them and he would not see them again.
Free will isn’t always about choice; often weakness plays the game
The first man who, having fenced in a piece of land, said "This is mine," and found people naïve enough to believe him, that man was the true founder of civil society. From how many crimes, wars, and murders, from how many horrors and misfortunes mi...
You make them sound human." "Aren't they? A lot of monsters are human." She couldn't argue with that.
His mouth captured hers, trying to show her with his kiss what he was still learning to express in words. He loved her. He worshipped her. He'd walk across fire for her. He— —still had the audience of her three brothers. Slowly breaking the kiss,...
He gave her a sly, sideways look. "Did you bring it?" "My list? Heavens, no. What can you be thinking?" His smile widened. "I brought mine." Daphne gasped. "You didn't!" "I did. Just to torture Mother. I'm going peruse it right in front of her, pull ...
And if you say that's because you lot barged into her home like a herd of mentally deficient sheep, I'm disowning all three of you.
[Showing the apartment to Tiziano ] MARLEEN WALKER: “Let me alert you that animals are banned in this building.” TIZIANO CONTI: “Am I breaking the law right now?
My identity might begin with the fact of my race, but it didn't, couldn't end there. At least that's what I would choose to believe.
What if it were possible or even entertaining, to recreate and transform one of the old myths and infuse it with a different meaning?...Imagine being guided by your mythology that it is better to thrive and prosper, than just to survive.
