"A man, groundly learned already, may take much profit himself in using by epitome to draw other men’s works, for his own memory sake, into short room."

“You can't assume that kindness is an inherited trait. It is learned behavior.”

“The basic idea of Zen is to come in touch with the inner workings of our being, and to do this in the most direct way possible, without resorting to anything external or superadded. Therefore, anything that has the semblance of an external authority is rejected by Zen. Absolute faith is placed in a man's own inner being. For whatever authority there is in Zen, all comes from within.”

“If dolphins are so intelligent, how come they ain't got Walkmans?”

“Truth cannot be constructed. To live in ideology is, as [Vaclav] Havel so eloquently reminds us, inevitably to live in a lie. Truth can only be revealed. We cannot be creators, only receptors.”

Source : James W. Sire (2000). “Habits of the Mind: Intellectual Life as a Christian Calling”, p.215, InterVarsity Press

“When you look into the eyes of an animal youve rescued, you cant help but fall in love.”

“It is the amends of a short and troublesome life, that doing good and suffering ill entitles man to a longer and better.”

“The efficient man is the man who thinks for himself.”

Source : Charles William Eliot (1909). “Education for Efficiency, and The New Definition of the Cultivated Man”

“Eventually, humans invented agriculture, which could be understood as a way of turning the natural world into a tool for our use. There's evidence that we have been domesticating crops and animals for at least 15,000 years, adapting ecosystems to our preferred way of life.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net