Writing
Voices
Gathered passages, fragments, and remembered lines.
Albert Schweitzer
Faith Christianity Literature
With the spirit of the age I am in complete disagreement, because it is filled with a disdain for thinking.
Arn Anderson
Writing Education Creativity Literature
I'm both a professor and student, because if you are no longer a student, you don't have the right to call yourself a professor.
Baruch Spinoza
Science Psychology Literature
Men believe themselves to be free, simply because they are conscious of their actions, and unconscious of the causes whereby those actions are determined.
Charles Whitfield, Healing the Child Within
Human Flourishing Psychology Literature
One reason is that the mother herself is so impoverished and needy that she uses her infant to satisfy her own unmet needs.
Czeslaw Milosz, The Captive Mind
Science Communication Literature Politics Psychology
Who can gaze indifferently at the suffering of people whose only sin was that they blocked the path of historical processes? To lull his conscience he resorts to the thesis that a
DARPA Broad Agency Announcement
Science Literature
The Defense Sciences Office at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency DARPA is soliciting innovative research proposals in the area of new simulation capabilities to test th
Earl Biddle
Faith Psychology Literature
It is to be expected that scientific explanations of human behavior in purely materialistic terms will be met by opposition, not only by the clergy, but by everyone concerned about
Edward O. Wilson
Science Faith Literature
The final decisive edge enjoyed by scientific naturalism will come from its capacity to explain traditional religion, its chief competitor, as a wholly material phenomena.
For this very reason make every effort
Faith Christianity Human Flourishing Literature
For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; a...
Frederick Buechner
Faith Christianity Literature
The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's hunger meet. –Frederick Buechner
Frederick Douglass
Faith Christianity Politics Literature
Between the Christianity of this land and the Christianity of Christ, I recognize the widest possible difference–so wide, that to receive the one as good, pure and holy is of neces
Friedrich Nietzsche
Literature
At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in u
Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
Science Faith Human Flourishing Literature
“Imagine: inside, in the nerves, in the head—that is, these nerves are there in the brain... damn them! there are sort of little tails, the little tails of those nerves, and as soo
Gabriel Chevallier, Fear
Literature Psychology
"Most rules lie, yet lies are less shocking, less corrosive than the chosen, cultivated ignorance that Chevallier addresses here.
Groucho Marx
Humor Literature
Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.
H. L. Mencken
Humor Literature
"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong." –H. L. Mencken
Hope
Faith Christianity Human Flourishing Literature
Faith, wherever it develops into hope, causes not rest but unrest, not patience but impatience.
Isaiah 50:4
Faith Christianity Communication Literature
The Lord God has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with a word him who is weary.
J.P. Stern on Canetti
Science Human Flourishing Communication Literature
To conclude that Canetti's use in his book Crowd's and Power of the method of philosophical anthropology is uncritical – that is, unphilosophical – is to advert to the fact that at
Johann von Goethe
Faith Literature
If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.
John Mayer, Split Screen Sadness
Creativity Literature
'Cause I can't wait to figure out what's wrong with me So I can say this is the way that I used to be Songwriters: John Clayton Mayer Split Screen Sadness lyrics Reach Music Publis
Journaling is...
Faith Communication Writing Creativity Literature
Writing from the place of knowing that I am loved.
Karl Barth, The Humanity of God
Faith Christianity Human Flourishing Literature
The Gift of Freedom. Foundation of Evangelical Ethics.
Karl Ove Knausgaard, Wolves of Eternity
Human Flourishing Literature Education
"Why are you reading when you don't have to?" Sevoshka would often say to me Alevtina whenever I sat down with a book on some subject or other that was completely alien to him.
Kerry Ann Rockquemore, Monday Motivator
Education Literature
Most importantly, we must develop our own internal system of value, measures of quality, and definition of success.
Leszek Kolakowski
Faith Literature
The patterns are always the same: the great socialist revolution consists, first of all, in giving us privileges, titles and power for our political opinions and in destroying the
Miroslav Krleza, On the Edge of Reason
Human Flourishing Literature Psychology
Had I not come to a turn in this account that could be described as a fatal one, according to a mysterious law of human folly, in all probability I would have spent my whole life o
Oscar Wilde, De Profundis
Literature
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Poincare
Science Literature
To doubt everything or to believe everything are equally good solutions–both dispense with the necessity of reflection. –Poincare
Proverbs 25:2
Faith Christianity Literature
It is the glory of God to conceal a matter; to search out a matter is the glory of kings.
Psalm 65
Faith Christianity Human Flourishing Literature
Praise awaits you, our God, in Zion; to you our vows will be fulfilled.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Faith Writing Literature
How surely gravity's law, strong as an ocean current, takes hold of the smallest thing and pulls it toward the heart of the world.
Reinhold Niebuhr
Faith Literature
The vantage point from which man judges his insignificance is a very significant vantage point.
Rene Descartes
Science Faith Literature
Thanks be to God, I did not find myself in a condition which obliged me to make a merchandise of science for the improvement of my fortune.
Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
Faith Human Flourishing Communication Writing Literature Creativity
A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. --Rilke.
Ronald Beiner
Literature
Looking back on that conversation today, I cannot help but wonder whether my more hopeful view of the discipline and its intellectual achievements was just a conceit of youth, and
Rush Holt
Science Faith Human Flourishing Politics Literature
This election is said to have been about rejecting the political establishment. We cannot let that mean rejecting established facts.
Seeing Jesus
Faith Christianity Literature
Our first responsibility is to be revived ourselves, and to have a testimony that we have come to the end of our struggle and that we have found Jesus himself as all we need.
Spiritual Growth
Faith Human Flourishing Literature
Spiritual growth is the result of coming face to face with our own situation, feeling the brunt of our own puzzlement, recognizing no recipe will apply completely, and then trustin
Spoke Into the Wheel
Communication Literature
"We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself."
Starfish Story
Literature
A man walking down the beach sees a young boy picking up something and gently tossing it into the ocean. When the man asks what he's doing, the boy replies that he's tossing starfi
Stellan Ohlsson
Education Literature
The psychology of thinking encounters several perennial problems... Perennial problems are rarely solved. Instead, they serve as loci for the accumulation of knowledge. Each genera
Steven Pressfield, The War of Art
Communication Writing Creativity Literature
Look in your own heart. Unless I'm crazy, right now a still small voice is piping up, telling you as it has ten thousand times the calling that is yours and yours alone. You know i
Timothy Snyder
Human Flourishing Communication Politics Literature
Post-truth is pre-fascism. –Timothy Snyder
Tripp York
Faith Christianity Human Flourishing Literature
The hope of the Christian is to worship God in such a way that attracts others to God.
Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own
Writing Literature
Imaginatively she is of the highest significance, practically she is completely insignificant.
William Barclay
Faith Christianity Literature
When we speak for Christ we must speak as if Christ is listening -- as indeed he is. --William Barclay
William James
Human Flourishing Communication Literature
As for me, my bed is made: I am against bigness and greatness in all their forms, and with the invisible molecular forces that work from individual to individual, stealing through
