“In the journey of life, there are many mountains to climb, but when you climb with God by your side, you will overcome.”
Source: Coming to Grips with the Mountains and Valleys of This World
“We will preserve the capacity for independent thought through a society so heterogeneous that it will make our own look trite. We will intentionally craft new ethnicities, religions, and ways of existing. The genome will be our canvas and flesh our clay. Man is a young species. We still occupy the same bodies with which our ancestors hunted and picked berries. We are so trapped by the limitations of our biology that we lack the capacity to conceive our ultimate potential.”
Source: The Pragmatist’s Guide to Crafting Religion: A playbook for sculpting cultures that overcome demographic collapse & facilitate long-term human flourishing
“We meet at school, or work, or maybe a store. Wherever it is, there's just a random group of individuals, right? Within that group, you find your mate. If you were in a different group, you' d end up with a different mate, right? But we never dwell on that. We live our lives in the groups we have - in our cities, our countries, even though we didn't choose them. Know what I mean? We like to tell ourselves it's love, that we're choosing our own partners. But in reality, we're just playing the cards we've been dealt.”
Source: Weasels in the Attic
“মানুষের রসনা বড় ভয়ানক বস্তু; সে-রসনা বিষাক্ত সাপের রসনার চেয়েও ভয়ঙ্কর হতে পারে। প্রক্ষিপ্ত সে-রসনা তার বিষে পরিবারকে-পরিবার ধ্বংস করে দিতে পারে, নিমেষে আগুন ধরিয়ে দিতে পারে সমগ্র পৃথিবীতে।”
Source: লালসালু
“These are all common principles of salesmanship. The most ignorant peddler applies them. Yet the salesman-in-print very often forgets them. He talks about his interest. He blazons a name, as though that was of importance. His phrase is, “Drive people to the stores,” and that is his attitude in everything he says. People can be coaxed but not driven. Whatever they do they do to please themselves. Many fewer mistakes would be made in advertising if these facts were never forgotten.”
Source: Scientific Advertising
“I don’t see how nightmares is your reward for something good. Where is your mercy? Where is your sense of doing what’s right—what one human would do? I am not human, and even I know.”
Source: Never Have I Ever
“The horrible truth, that wicked people are capable of love, stood naked before her, and her moral being was abashed.”
Source: Where Angels Fear to Tread
“We are unreasonable reasonable people. Measured of the excess. We frequent madness and chaos without quite melting into it. A hunger for life always ends up bringing us back to the light.”
Source: L'inconnue de la Seine
“Science and technology have a simple and persuasive message: the world's problems are soluble by ingenuity and material innovations; the world's riddles, such as the origins of the universe, can be unravelled by the scientific mind. But while science's achievements have been remarkable, they have not been revolutionary in probing human nature. In some ways the measurable problems analysed by science and technology are more easily dissected than human problems. The moon is more easily explored than the typical mind and heart.”
Source: A Short History of Christianity
“But, my goodness! Who in our Russia nowadays doesn't consider himself a Napoleon?”
Source: Crime and Punishment