“Much as I admire Tolkien, I once again always felt like Gandalf should have stayed dead. That was such an incredible sequence in Fellowship of the Ring when he faces the Balrog on the Khazad-dûm and he falls into the gulf, and his last words are, "Fly, you fools." What power that had, how that grabbed me. And then he comes back as Gandalf the White, and if anything he's sort of improved. I never liked Gandalf the White as much as Gandalf the Grey, and I never liked him coming back. I think it would have been an even stronger story if Tolkien had left him dead.” IfsThinkingShouldHas BeensStoriesLastsFacesFallLeftFeltWhiteFoolShould HaveStrongerIncrediblesRingsGreyLast WordsComing BackSequenceFellowshipFellowship Of The Ring Author:George R. R. Martin
“The mistake made by all previous systems of ethics has been the failure to recognize that life as such is the mysterious value with which they have to deal. All spiritual life meets us within natural life. Reverence for life, therefore, is applied to natural life and spiritual life alike. In the parable of Jesus, the shepherd saves not merely the soul of the lost sheep but the whole animal. The stronger the reverence for natural life, the stronger grows also that for spiritual life.” LifeHas BeensMadeSoulWholeSpiritualValuesJesusLostStrongGrowsNaturalAnimalDealsMistakeStrengthEthicsStrongerMysteriousReverenceSpiritual LifeSheepShepherdsParablesReverence For LifeNatural Life Book:Albert Schweitzer: An Anthology Source: Albert Schweitzer: An Anthology
“The reality is that China is a much stronger power today, because the economic dimension has been added to the military and strategic one.” Has BeensRealityTodayEconomicMilitaryStrongerChinaDimensionsStrategic Author:Sugata Bose
“Music for a long time has been telling what the world is like. What music has to say now, in a manner that has both logic and emotion in it, is that the world has a structure persons could like; be stronger by.... [If] the world is the oneness of opposites - and music says it is - the world is given an everlastingly sensible basis; for what could be more sensible that to be calm and forceful at once, reposeful and intense at once?” IfsWorldPersonsLongHas BeensGivenEmotionLong TimeLogicOppositesBasesStrongerStructureMusicalCalmIntenseOnenessSensible Author:Eli Siegel