“All his life he had been plagued by impulses to do something inappropriate or despicable for no reason: grab his dissertation supervisor by the ears and give him a big Bugs Bunny kiss, drop the precious vase . . . These thoughts arose from nowhere that he could account for and, at their worst, caused him to lose sleep. When he read Goethe's statement about every man secretly believing himself to be an undiscovered genius or an undiscovered maniac, he wept with relief. He lived in fear that the thoughts might show in his eyes. Usually, though, when he had reason to be offended, his mind was a clear disc of hurt, not a thought of any action, violent or otherwise. But something had changed.”
Source: The Transition
“When you face a downpour and a series of closed doors, call on God. He is a God who can restore what was lost.”
Source: Beyond the Closed Door: Unique Keys to Unlock Destinies
“Do you have a fulcrum large enough, and a lever long enough to shift human nature?”
“Why did they kill it? Man can't stand to let something beautiful and pure, a thing on wings, pass over him. He hates everything that soars, and everything that sings. It seemed to me this swan is the very image of my dream, and my dream is dead.”
Source: In the Sky
“Freedom is an inborn destination.
Freedom is within our DNA.”
Source: Talismanist: Fragments of the Ancient Fire. Philosophy of Fragmentism Series.
“ANDROMAQUE
[Mon fils] ne sera pas lâche. Mais je lui aurai coupé l’index de la main droite.
HECTOR
Si toutes les mères coupent l’index droit de leur fils, les armées de l’univers se feront la guerre sans index... Et si elles lui coupent la jambe droite, les armées seront unijambistes... Et si elles lui crèvent les yeux, les armées seront aveugles, mais il y aura des armées, et dans la mêlée elles se chercheront le défaut de l’aine, ou la gorge, à tâtons...
ANDROMAQUE
Je le tuerai plutôt.
HECTOR
Voilà la vraie solution maternelle des guerres.”
Source: La guerre de Troie n'aura pas lieu
“Despite all their hopes for the afterlife, the ancient Egyptians could not escape the natural human fear of death and its many unknowns.”
Source: Writings from Ancient Egypt
“No matter what your deconstructionist professors told you, there is such a thing as human nature. People know how people are. Human nature dictates that most of us will tend to follow the same steps and missteps when solving a large problem. Therefore, stories will feel more natural if heroes tend to follow those same steps and missteps.”
Source: The Secrets of Story: Innovative Tools for Perfecting Your Fiction and Captivating Readers
“Don't tell a person about ghosts, and he will never see one.
Tell him about it and he will always be haunted by one.”
Source: The Enigmatic Expanse - Existence
“For self-control is common to all human beings who have made choice of it. And we admit that the same nature exists in every race, and the same virtue. As far as respects human nature, the woman does not possess one nature, and the man exhibit another, but the same: so also with virtue. If, consequently, a self-restraint and righteousness, and whatever qualities are regarded as following them, is the virtue of the male, it belongs to the male alone to be virtuous, and to the woman to be licentious and unjust. But it is offensive even to say this. Accordingly woman is to practise self-restraint and righteousness, and every other virtue, as well as man, both bond and free; since it is a fit consequence that the same nature possesses one and the same virtue. We do not say that woman's nature is the same as man's, as she is woman. For undoubtedly it stands to reason that some difference should exist between each of them, in \ virtue of which one is male and the other female. Preg-\ nancy and parturition, accordingly, we say belong to woman, |as she is woman, and not as she is a human being. But if there were no difference between man and woman, both would do and suffer the same things. As then there is sameness, as far as respects the soul, she will attain to the same virtue ; but as there is difference as respects the peculiar construction of the body, she is destined for child-bearing and housekeeping.”
Source: Volume 12. The Writings of Clement of Alexandria