Wisdom

If I believe my truth is true and you believe your truth is true,what if my truth says yours is a lie.Is it still true?

When you do the math and examine how much energy is produced per atomic union, you find that fusing anything to iron’s twenty-six protons costs energy. That means post-ferric fusion* does an energy-hungry star no good. Iron is the final peal of a star’s natural life.

Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart.

Your sight takes you where there is light... But your visions can take you through the dark places! Maintain your sight, but add your visions!

Why is it when I pursue the praises of men I find myself with everything that I’ve looked for but nothing that I need? That’s because I have an extraordinary habit of looking for the wrong thing in the wrong place.

What it taught me was forgiveness. It taught me that when people present themselves in a certain way, there's probably some back story or issue or reason for the way that they are. It's not you. It's them. And a lot of times, its about something that's completely out of their control.

Learning from the past helps to ensure that mistakes are not repeated.

King was a transformed person. Evil was no longer a theory.

And in that moment, I felt my own ignorance spread suddenly out behind me like a pair of wings, and every single thing I didn’t know was a feather on those wings. I could feel them tugging at the air, restless to be airborne.

Heresy is usually quite sophisticated, actually has a meaning, and is to be taken very seriously. It is therefore to be carefully distinguished from turgid, pretentious, badly-written Bullsgeshichte, to use the technical German theological term.

I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can do.

History isn't about dates and places and wars. It's about the people who fill the spaces between them.

The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book.

A quality is something capable of being completely embodied. A law never can be embodied in its character as a law except by determining a habit. A quality is how something may or might have been. A law is how an endless future must continue to be.

I wonder how Admat can be everywhere. Is he in my sandal? Or is he my sandal itself? Why would a god bother to be a sandal? Does he wear shoes or sandals himself, invisible ones?

If anybody didn't have a messiah complex, it was Jesus.

What’s the old saying? Ah, I remember now. ‘Curiosity flayed the cat alive, ripped it apart limb from limb, and listened to it scream before it killed it.’ That’s the one.

Imagination is phenomenal.

Just show a little humility. If you know your weaknesses you will not be enslaved by them.

When ppl say they got ur back. Is like saying I'll pray for u. They don't actually do it. It just sounds good at the moment. Depend on self.