“Vulgarized knowledge characteristically gives birth to a feeling that everything is understandable and explained. It is like a system of bridges built over chasms. One can travel boldly ahead over these bridges, ignoring the chasms. It is forbidden to look down into them; but that, alas, does not alter the fact that they exist.” GivingLooksDoeFactsFeelingsBirthBuiltBridgesForbiddenAlasChasms Author:Czeslaw Milosz
“One may decide that the nipple most nearly resembles a newly ripened raspberry (never, be it noted, the plonk of water on a pond at the commencement of a drizzle, a simple bladder nozzle built on the suction principal gum bubble, mole, or birth ward, bumpy metal button, or the painful red eruption of a swelling), but does one care to see his breakfast fruit as a sweetened milky bowl of snipped nips? no.” MayDoeBodyCareWaterSimpleBirthBuiltRedFruitPainfulBreastsBreakfastMetalsBubblesBowlsPrincipalButtonsPondsGumCommencementMolesSwellingNipplesEruptionBladderRaspberriesDrizzle Author:William H. Gass
“Behind joy and laughter there may be a temperament, coarse, hard and callous. But behind sorrow there is always sorrow. Pain, unlike pleasure, wears no mask. ... For this reason there is no truth comparable to sorrow. There are times when sorrow seems to me to be the only truth. Other things may be illusions of the eye or the appetite, made to blind the one and cloy the other, but out of sorrow have the worlds been built, and at the birth of a child or a star there is pain.” WorldMayChildrenMadeHardReasonSeemsEyePainJoyStarsPleasureBehindsSadnessBirthSorrowSadLaughterIllusionBuiltBlindMaskAppetiteTemperamentCoarseCallousBirth Of A Child Author:Oscar Wilde
“We have the power to defy the selfish genes of our birth and, if necessary, the selfish memes of our indoctrination. We can even discuss ways of deliberately cultivating and nurturing pure, disinterested altruism - something that has no place in nature, something that has never existed before in the whole history of the world. We are built as gene machines and cultured as meme machines, but we have the power to turn against our creators. We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.” IfsWorldWayWholeEarthTurnsBirthPureBuiltMachinesCreatorSelfishTyrannyRebelGenesAltruismWorld HistoryNurturingIndoctrinationCultivatingDisinterestedMemesSelfish Gene Author:Richard Dawkins
“I was born in 1953, in Paris. But soon after my birth my family (I have one sister) moved into a rent apartment in suburbs of Paris named Romainville. That time my parents were freshly married and it was extremely hard to find an apartment in Paris for a young married couple. To say they found a flat in a blocks of houses which was built after the second World War - and this is the place where I spent my childhood.” WorldWarHardYoungFoundHouseParentBornChildhoodBirthCoupleMarriedBuiltMy FamilyMovedBlockParisWar Of The WorldsFlatsApartmentSuburbsSecond World WarMarried Couples Author:Richard Clayderman
“Christmas is built upon a beautiful and intentional paradox; that the birth of the homeless should be celebrated in every home.” ShouldHomeBeautifulBirthBuiltChristmasParadoxHomelessReligious Christmas Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton