"Yeah, dolphins and monkeys basically could play chess together. Those are brilliant animals."

“Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.”

“Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum.”

“In fact Plotinus does believe in divine providence, though when he talks about divine providence, he talks about that providence being exercised by the intellect and the soul of the world, rather than the One.”

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“Man reacts upon and toward the external universe in three ways, namely, by his active nature ; by his intellectual nature ; by his moral nature - that is, he acts upon it, thinks about it, and feels toward it.”

Source : Richard Maurice Bucke (1879). “Man's Moral Nature: An Essay”, New York : G. P. Putnam's sons ; Toronto, Ont. : Willing & Williamson

“I think it's important that campaigns be aired all the way through, that people aren't voting three weeks before, before debates are held.”

“Understanding a person does not mean condoning; it only means that one does not accuse him as if one were God or a judge placed above him.”

“When our deepest desire is not the things of God, or a favor from God, but God Himself, we cross a threshold.”

“In this life you have to be your own hero. By that I mean you have to win whatever it is that matters to you by your own strength and in your own way. Like it or not, you are alone in a forest, just like all those fairy tales that begin with a hero who’s usually stupid but somehow brave, or who might be clever, but weak as a straw, and away he goes (don’t worry about the gender), cheered on by nobody, via the castles and the bears, and the old witch and the enchanted stream, and by and by (we hope) he’ll find the treasure.”

Source : Jeanette Winterson (2013). “The Powerbook”, p.155, Random House