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Television is a constant stream of fact, opinions, lies, moral dilemmas, plots: an infinitely complex and sophisticated torrent of information. How could it not make you cleverer? The only people who ever thought television rotted the brain and made kids dumb were those with a vested interest in other ways of learning, or those who were intellectually insecure, usually about books.
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The Lord has different names according to His different activities. For example, His name is Madhusüdana because He killed the demon of the name Madhu; His name is Govinda because He gives pleasure to the cows and to the senses
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Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies, But keep your fancy free.
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He gives me the hairy eyeball, and asks me to help him find his pancreas.
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Have we forgotten that there is a Holy Ghost, that we must insist upon walking on crutches when we might fly?
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One might regard architecture as history arrested in stone.
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I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.
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I hope it will not be irreverent in me to say, that if it be probable that God would reveal his will to others, on a point so connected with my duty, it might be supposed he would reveal it directly to me
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Where was the human potential lost? How was it crippled? ...a good question might be not why do people create? But why do people not create or innovate?
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The past is so often unknowable not because it is befogged now but because it was befogged then, too, back when it was still the present. If we had been there listening, we still might not have been able to determine exactly what Stanton said. All we know for sure is that everyone was weeping, and the room was full.
