Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
~ Toni Morrison
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Author Archives: Seamas Anstruther
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Politics is not an exact science.
~ Otto von Bismarck
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The voice of the majority is no proof of justice.
~ Friedrich Schiller
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All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
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If spring came but once in a century, instead of once a year, or burst forth with the sound of an earthquake, and not in silence, what wonder and expectation there would be in all hearts to behold the miraculous change.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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A Klee painting named Angelus Novus shows an angel looking as though he is about to move away from something he is fixedly contemplating. His eyes are staring, his mouth is open, his wings are spread. This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage upon wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet.
― Walter Benjamin
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People often say that elephants never forget, but neither do cattle. They can recognize pictures of herd mates as well as humans they know.
~ Gregory Berns via The New York Times
Dr. Gregory S. Berns is a member of the College of Arts and Sciences faculty at Emory University in Atlanta where he teaches psychology.
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Most ancient pagan belief systems were built around ritual and magic, coercive practices intended to achieve a beneficial result. They centered the self. The revolutionary contribution of monotheism was its insistence that the principal concern of God is, instead, how people treat one another.
~ David Wolpe via The Atlantic
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An intellectual hatred is the worst. So let her think opinions are accursed.
~ William Butler Yeats
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Every man would like to possess all the women in the world, but a woman only wants the man she loves and to whom she is faithful.
~ Elfriede Jelinek
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