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As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness read more
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for read more
If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.
Give a small boy a hammer and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding.
Give a small boy a hammer and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding.
Never to blend our pleasure or our pride
With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels.
Never to blend our pleasure or our pride
With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels.
He had the uneasy manner of a man who is not among his own kind, and who has not seen read more
He had the uneasy manner of a man who is not among his own kind, and who has not seen enought of the world to feel that all people are in some sense his own kind.
We all boil at different degrees
We all boil at different degrees
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
Which is it, is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's?
Which is it, is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's?
Man is as full of potentiality as he is of impotence.
Man is as full of potentiality as he is of impotence.
