Industrialism implies technology and the cutting of time into precise fragments suited to the needs of the engineer and the accountant.

The discovery of printing in the middle of the fifteenth century implied the beginning of a return to a type of civilization dominated by the eye rather than the ear.

The mixture of the oral and the written traditions in the writings of Plato enabled him to dominate the history of the West.

The Middle Ages burned its heretics and the modern age threatens them with atom bombs.

The history of Canada has been profoundly influenced by the habits of an animal which very fittingly occupies a prominent place on her coat of arms.

Democracy will defeat the economist at every turn on its own genre.

We have not yet realized that the Indian and his culture were fundamental to the growth of Canadian institutions.

Palestine is the anvil of our souls.

Music has become my driving force behind my life, it to me, can fix bad moods, bad days, even bad people. It is the beat of my life.

Life is more than breath and a heartbeat

On the one hand, philosophy is to keep us thinking about things that we may come to know, and on the other hand to keep us modestly aware of how much that seems like knowledge isn't knowledge

I wish I knew how to sleep late! I generally wake horribly early, often with a head full of thoughts and deadlines that propel me to my computer.

I have always been quite careful when I have been approached to do a television project to have the option of writing the accompanying book.

In matters of religion, it is very easy to deceive a man and very hard to undeceive him.

The only people with power today are the audience. And that is increasing with Twitter, Facebook, and everything else. We cater to their likes and dislikes, and you ignore that at your peril.

Right up to the middle of this century all perceptions of the world around us were delivered via the bookshelf or the paper route.

It's quite rare that you make something and think that you did something that no-one else had done.