Wisdom

I once had a dream; human was a chosen beast, domesticated by God to manage the planet earth.

Shh,” Cobweb said with a well-time jab of the elbow, “we might be able to get some dignity out of this, if we play our cards right.

An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.

The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself.

The goal of intellectual life should be to see and understand what is true, not merely to adhere to a prevailing orthodoxy.

For emotion is the enemy of rational argument.

I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.

I was a super-duper Tupac fan, and I realized later, when I became a huge Nas fan and a huge Eminem fan, I was drawn to the storytellers. They all told stories in different ways, but they were all like the best storytellers.

If one is destined to go wrong, he will not believe the truth but will believe something else altogether.

Education, from Addams' perspective, must not merely make us more adept at defending ourselves against those with different agendas. Education should increase our powers of empathy and our ability to act in concert with others.

If you give pain to someone out there, you will start to feel the pain within you! Such is the science of the Vitraags [the enlightened ones]. If you take everyone’s pain for one lifetime, it will make up for losses of infinite lifetimes!

The wisdom of our ancestors is immortal.

Modern intelligence won't accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.

Earth is a school of darkness and your purpose is to educate yourself of your light.

The best way to cleanse the world from monsters is by not becoming one.

The Church being what she is cannot have the instincts of a gentleman.

In the traditional Islamic world, the hierarchy of the arts was not based on whether they were 'fine' or 'industrial' or 'minor'. It was based upon the effect of art on the soul of the human being.

The re-evaluation and rediscovery of minority art (including the cultural minority of women) is often conceived as a matter of remedying injustice and exclusiveness through doing justice to individual artists by allowing their work into the canon, which will thereby be more complete, but fundamentally unchanged.

[T]o really try to be informed and literate today is to feel stupid nearly all the time, and to need help.

Evil does not exist; once you have crossed the threshold, all is good. Once in another world, you must hold your tongue.