“Others, one suspects, are afraid that the crossing of space , and above all contact with intelligent but nonhuman races, may destroy the foundations of their religious faith . They may be right, but in any event their attitude is one which does not bear logical examination for a faith which cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets.” MayDoeReligiousSpaceRaceAttitudeEventsRegretBearsTruth IsIntelligentFoundationContactLogicalSuspectsExaminationReligious FaithCrossingsCollision Book:By Space Possessed Source: By Space Possessed
“We must ever bear in mind --that apart from the will there is nothing good or bad, and that we must not try to anticipate or to direct events, but merely to accept them with intelligence.” TryingMindAcceptingEventsBearsDirectAnticipate Author:Epictetus
“In the search for meaning we must not forget that the gods (or God, for that matter) are a concept of the human mind; they are the creatures of man, not vice versa. They are needed and invented to give meaning and purpose to the struggle that is life on Earth, to explain strange and irregular phenomena of nature, haphazard events and, above all, irrational human conduct. They exist to bear the burden of all things that cannot be comprehended except by supernatural intervention or design.” MenGivingMindHumansMatterEarthPurposeForgetStruggleAtheismEventsDesignStrangeBearsNeededCreaturesConceptsAll ThingsVicesBurdenPositive AtheismHuman MindIrrationalInterventionVice VersaSearch For MeaningHaphazard Author:Barbara Tuchman
“The most beautiful landscapes in the world, if they evoke no memory, if they bear no trace of a remarkable event, are uninteresting compared to historic landscapes.” IfsWorldBeautifulMemoriesEventsBearsLandscapeRemarkableHistoricEvokeNo MemoryBeautiful Landscapes Author:Madame de Stael
“No single crisis shapes a generation; but a succession of events, each one bringing its shaping blows to bear.” GenerationsEventsBearsShapesCrisisBlowSuccession Author:Han Suyin
“Like an explorer returned from a distant planet or another dimension, Suki Kim has many extraordinary tales to tell, among them how different--and how awful--life is for those who live in North Korea. The devil is in the details here, for her gritty narrative focuses on everyday events to reveal how repression shapes daily life, even for the most privileged. Yet Kim also bears witness to that part of the human soul that no oppressor can ever claim.” HumansDifferentSoulLife IsEventsPlanetsBearsShapesDevilClaimsExtraordinaryEverydayDetailsTalesAwfulWitnessNarrativeDimensionsDaily LifePrivilegedKoreaHuman SoulNorth KoreaRepressionOppressorsExplorersKim Author:Carlos Eire
“You have to realize that, about 20,000 years ago, there was a cataclysmic event when an entire rock face collapsed and sealed off the cave. It's a completely preserved time capsule. You've got tracks of cave bears that look like they were left yesterday, and you've got the footprint of a boy who was probably eight years old next to the footprint of a wolf.” YearsLooksFacesNextLeftRealizingBoysRocksEventsBearsYears AgoTrackEightYesterdayCavesFootprintTime Capsules Author:Werner Herzog
“The images which the [press] photographer has filtered from reality, whether particular events or the anguish of human reactions to them, already bear a stamp of authenticity which the photographer is powerless to alter by one jot or tittle; the meaning of the objects, by a process of purification, itself becomes the theme of the work.” HumansRealityProcessEventsObjectsParticularBearsPressesPhotographerReactionsAuthenticityThemeAnguishPowerlessStampsPurification Author:Yukio Mishima