Technology and Science is what you make it.

Worldliness is actually a spirit, an atmosphere, an influence permeating the whole of life and human society, and it needs to be guarded against constantly and strenuously.

All men have a sweetness in their life. That is what helps them go on. It is towards that they turn when they feel too worn out.

It is one thing to say that the dwelling has symbolic and cosmological aspects... and another to say that it has been erected for ritual purposes and is neither shelter nor dwelling but a temple.

Luck always seems like it belongs to someone else.

And friend received with thumps upon the back.

I aim to direct as much as I act at some point in time.

There is nothing but death Our affections can sever, And till life's latest breath Love shall bind us for ever.

When on the breath of Autumn's breeze, From pastures dry and brown, Goes floating, like an idle thought, The fair, white thistle-down; O, then what joy to walk at will, Upon the golden harvest-hill!

I'm kind of this control freak that likes to create his own hells before the real one can get to him

For the liberal state to accommodate a diversity of beliefs while having few positive convictions is one of the more admirable achievements of civilization.