“I have concluded through careful empirical analysis and much thought that somebody is looking out for me, keeping track of what I think about things, forgiving me when I do less than I ought. Giving me strength to shoot for more than I think I’m capable of. I believe they know everything that I do and think, and they still love me, and I’ve concluded, after careful consideration, that this person keeping score is me.” ThinkingKnowsGivingBelievePersonsStillsWisdomI BelieveAtheismOughtCapableForgivingTrackCarefulAnalysisScoreConsiderationMythbusters Author:Adam Savage
“Fractals, the theory of relativity, the genome: these are magnificently beautiful constructs.” BeautifulTheoryConstructsRelativityGenomeFractalsTheories Of Relativity Author:Adam Savage
“New York State is giant and has some of the most beautiful landscape on the Eastern seaboard. There is so much history in New York State, from the Erie Canal to the Catskills, the birth of American stand-up comedy.” StatesBeautifulComedyNew YorkBirthLandscapeGiantsEasternCanalsStand Up ComedyNew York StateBeautiful Landscapes Author:Adam Savage
“Never stop looking, no matter where you are, everywhere there are good photographs” ArtMatterSeeingPhotographyPhotographWhere You AreStopping Author:Art Wolfe
“It is in the wild places, where the edge of the earth meets the corners of the sky, the human spirit is fed.” InspirationalHumansEarthSpiritNatureSkyEdgesCornersFedsHuman SpiritWild Places Author:Art Wolfe
“Well, you may not know this, but there's things that gnaw at a man worse than dying.” KnowsMenWellsMayDying Author:Charlie Waite
“As the Hindu gods are 'immortal' only in a very particular sense - for they had born and they die - they experience most of the great human dilemmas and often seem to differ from mortals in a few trivial details... and from demons even less. Yet they are regarded by the Hindus as a class of beigns by definition totally different from any other; they are symbols in a way that no human beign, however 'archetypal' his life story, can ever be. They are actors playing parts that are real only for us; they are masks behind which we see our own faces.” WayHumansDifferentRealStoriesSeemsFacesDiesActorsBornBehindsClassParticularDefinitionsDetailsSymbolsMortalsDemonMaskImmortalDilemmaLife StoryHindu God Author:Wendy Doniger
“The Bhagavad Gita is not as nice a book as some Americans think...Throughout the Mahabharata ... Krishna goads human beings into all sorts of murderous and self-destructive behaviors such as war.... The Gita is a dishonest book .” ThinkingHumansBookWarSelfHuman BeingsNiceBehaviorDestructiveKrishnaSelf DestructiveGitaMahabharataSelf Destructive BehaviorDestructive Behavior Author:Wendy Doniger
“I'm a pacifist. I don't believe in 'good' wars.” BelieveWarDon't BelievePacifistGood War Author:Wendy Doniger
“Holi, the spring carnival, when members of all castes mingle and let down their hair, sprinkling one another with cascades of red powder and liquid, symbolic of the blood that was probably used in past centuries.” PastUsedBloodCenturyHairMembersSpringRedSymbolicLiquidPowderCastesLet DownCarnivalsCascade Author:Wendy Doniger
