Nine of the best book quotes from The Fifth Form at St. Dominic's 01 “The secret had been kept most carefully, and when, next morning, Saint Dominic’s woke up and swarmed down the passage past the Fifth Form class-room, the sight of a huge frame, with the words The Dominican sta...
The secret to happiness, at least to peace of mind, is knowing how to separate sex from love. And, if possible, eliminating romantic love from your life, which is the love that makes you suffer. That way, I assure you, you live with greater tranquility and enjoy things more. — Mario...
but Plato and Socrates also spoke of the Logos and of the Universal Wise Man ‘yet to come’. Confucius spoke of ‘the Saint’; the Sibyls, of a ‘Universal King’; the Greek dramatist, of a saviour and redeemer to unloose man from the ‘primal eldest curse’. All these were ...
from The Portrait of Mrs Charbuque by Jeffrey Ford. Suggested by Ouranid Always store beer in a dark place. from the Notebooks of Lazarus Long from Time Enough For Love by Robert A. Heinlein. Suggested by imlad When I was growing up, I fantasized about a house like this. New fu...
If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men. —Francis of Assisi 399 I'm usually good about my temper, but all these men trying to control women's bodies are really be...
there is no common ground between the heretics and the holy fathers, but that ‘as far as the East is from the West’, so far are the impious heretics in word and thought from the men who speak of God.”Every heresy is to be anathematizedJanuary 16, 2025 Spirituality Vision of St...
From 'Quæst 25' in Draft version of The Queries manuscript, Add. MS. 3970, folio 235 held by the University of Cambridge Library. As quoted and cited in R.W. Home, 'Force, Electricity, and Living Matter', from Margaret J. Osler and Paul Lawrence Farber (eds.), Religion, Science...
20. “It hurts when one day you wake up and you know you’re missing someone from your past but they are not there for you anymore.”– Norma Marthalia 21. “I felt her absence. It was like waking up one day with no teeth in your mouth. You wouldn’t need to run to the mirro...
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because ...
131. “Cherish red, love, for the beautiful season is tinged with red! / Deep red are the flowers that dropp from the kesudo tree.”― Narsinh Mehta 132. “I like the color red because it’s a fire. And I see myself as always being on fire.”―Arnold Schwarzenegger ...