mind

"Society today is being fragmented by a way of thinking that is inherently short-sighted because it disregards the full horizon of truth - the truth about God and about us. By its nature, relativism fa…"

"Hitchens: And that's where it stops, or you think this creator cares about you too?"

"No idea could be more erroneous or harmful than to separate foreign from domestic policy."

"The technology for using base motives to productive economic effect is reasonably well understood. Indeed, the history of the twentieth century encourages the thought that the easiest way to generate …"

"The central fact for me is, I think, that the intellectual ... cannot be played without a sense of being someone whose place it is publicly to raise embarrassing questions, to confront orthodoxy and d…"

"If someone were to discover, for instance, that under hitherto unobserved circumstances stones were able to speak, it would take only a few pages to describe and explain so earth-shattering a phenomen…"

"I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living."

"Man’s consciousness not only reflects the objective world, but creates it."

"Here's a thought for sweat shop owners: Air Conditioning. Problem solved."

"No one is more dangerous than someone who thinks he has "The Truth". To be an atheist is almost as arrogant as to be a fundamentalist. But then again, I can get pretty arrogant."

"“Isolation is nice,” thought Brant as she drifted closer to sleep. “It’s a shame you can’t share it with anybody."

"You had your thumb up your butt and your mind was in Arizona"

"Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings — always darker, emptier, simpler."

"Of course, Pupkin would never have thought of considering himself on an intellectual par with Mallory Tompkins. That would have been ridiculous. Mallory Tompkins had read all sorts of things and had h…"

"The Method tends to be linear, almost like a 19th century mechanistic way of thinking in its search for a cause that produces the desired effect."

"With vertical thinking one may look for different approaches until one finds a promising one. With lateral thinking one goes on generating as many approaches as one can even after one has found a prom…"

"Rightly or wrongly, football is very definitely tied up with the status of a university. The majority of people who go to college...they don’t get that wider horizon or that better mental equilibrium.…"

"Sex and murder are the same. Well, you say the same after both don't you? "Damn I got to get the hell out of here!" "What was I thinking!"

"It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others."

"I wonder what my grandfather Björn of Brekkukot really thought what Latin was? Did he think it was the magic Sesame which opened all cliffs in Iceland? If so, I am not at all sure that he was all that…"