Our lives are to be used and thus to be lived as fully as possible, and truly it seems that read more

Our lives are to be used and thus to be lived as fully as possible, and truly it seems that we are never so alive as when we concern ourselves with other people.

I hear Socrates saying that the best seasoning for food is
hunger; for drink, thirst.
[Lat., Socratem audio read more

I hear Socrates saying that the best seasoning for food is
hunger; for drink, thirst.
[Lat., Socratem audio dicentem, cibi condimentum essa famem,
potionis sitim.]

Cruel as death, and hungry at the grave.

Cruel as death, and hungry at the grave.

It is difficult to spear to the belly, because it has no ears.

It is difficult to spear to the belly, because it has no ears.

Hunger is sharper than the sword.

Hunger is sharper than the sword.

The belly is the teacher of art and the bestower of genius.
[Lat., Magister artis ingeniique largitor venter.]

The belly is the teacher of art and the bestower of genius.
[Lat., Magister artis ingeniique largitor venter.]

I can't talk religion to a man with bodily hunger in his eyes.

I can't talk religion to a man with bodily hunger in his eyes.

Oliver Twist has asked for more.

Oliver Twist has asked for more.

Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If read more

Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.