139 quotes found
“A poem, novel, or play acquires all of humanity's disorders, including the fear of mortality”
“Under the absolute sway of an individual despot the body was attacked in order to subdue the soul, and the soul escaped the blows which were directed against it and rose superior to the attempt; bu...”
“The greatest difficulty in antiquity with that of altering the law; among the moderns, it is that of altering the manners.”
“When we heed God's Word, we are rejecting how the world tries to disciple us.”
“Your blanks have been filled in far differently from those of a child grown up in the filth and poverty”
“Strong prejudices in an ill-formed mind are hazardous to government.”
“It always matters who the storyteller is. Its a lens.”
“The road itself tells us far more than signs do.”
“He did not consider public opinion to be accurate at long range.”
“Just as we seldom realize that we are growing old until we are already old, so do the contemporary actors in a major social change seldom realize that society is changing until the change has alrea...”
“The author says that one of the difficulties of modern parenting is the uncertainty of what parents are preparing children for. In traditional societies this was clear, as parents prepared children...”
“I find myself constantly taking apart be taken-for-granted.”
“If the norm of the society is corrupted, then objective journalism is corrupted too, for it must not challenge the norm. It must accept the norm.”
“Who we are is not a question we can ask without seeking to understand the context in which we live. Biblical counselors seek to understand the influences that shape the responses of the human heart.”
“God bestows great gifts on human beings with perfect justice, but not All gifts we are given come from God. Some gifts come from society or culture, and it is here that problems develop.”
“(A middle-class child's) parents didn't just give him money. They passed down habits, knowledge, and cognitive traits.”
“The author called us to re-examine assumptions bequeathed to us from Greece and Rome. Just as a bridge built by the Roman Empire might have held up tolerably for centuries under foot traffic but cr...”
“You will make a perfectly rational mistake: You will assume that sooner or later the paradigm you are presently practicing (which has been mostly successful) will solve all the rest of your problems.”
“Character displays "the weighty impatience of having to explain something that should already be understood.”
“It will be found that every attack upon religion, or upon characteristic ideas inherited from religion, when its assumptions are laid bare, turns out to be an attack upon mind.”
