They were conspiring to desert us in the night and steal some of our horses... we engaged a spy.
Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.
Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom.
Maybe we are all prospective migrants. The lines of national borders on maps are artificial constructs, as unnatural to us as they are to birds flying overhead. Our first impulse is to ignore them.
Consumerism diverts us from thinking about women's rights, it stops us from thinking about Iraq, it stops us from thinking about what's going on in Africa - it stops us from thinking in general.
The folly of endless consumerism sends us on a wild goose-chase for happiness through materialism.
Too many of us now tend to worship self indulgence and consumption.
Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.
The sin which is indulged to the greatest extent, which separates us from God and produces so many spiritual disorders, and which are contagious, is selfishness.
Our intonations contain our philosophy of life, what each of us is constantly telling himself about things.
I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greek and Roman leave to us.
What enables us to achieve our greatness contains the seeds of our destruction.
Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.
That's what we're striving for, making us a contender in every race.
It seems to me that everything that happens to us is a disconcerting mix of choice and contingency.
Empathy should not be contingent on our proximity to suffering or the likelihood of it happening to us. Rather, it should stem from a disdain that suffering is happening at all.
Perhaps one reason for the falling-off of belief in a continuance of conscious existence is to be found in the quality of life that most of us lead. There is not much in it with which, in any kind of reason, one can associate the idea of immortality.
All of us need to grow continuously in our lives.
The implication is that this basic idea we have that we are controlled by our genes is false. It's an idea that turns us into victims. I'm saying we are the creators of our situation. The genes are merely the blueprints. We are the contractors, and we can adjust those blueprints. And we can even rewrite them.
Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.
