"Some knowledge and some song and some beauty must be kept for those days before the world again plunges into darkness."

-- Marion Zimmer Bradley

#Song Quotes #Knowledge Quotes #Darkness Quotes

“To misstate, or even merely understate, the relation of the universities to beauty is one kind of error that can be made. A university is among the precious things that can be destroyed.”

Source : Elaine Scarry (2013). “On Beauty and Being Just”, p.8, Princeton University Press
“So herein lies the choice for those of us who are Christians. We can either stay within the Christianity we have mastered with the Jesus we have domesticated, or we can leave Christianity as a destination, embrace Christianity as a way of life, and then journey to reality, where God is present and living in every person, every human community, and all creation.”
“Our epoch has been called the century of work. It is in fact the century of pain, misery and corruption.”

Source : Paul Lafargue (2016). “The Right to be Lazy and Other Studies”, p.8, Library of Alexandria
“The writer is the visionary of his people... He anticipates, he warns.”
“Diversity drives innovation – when we limit who can contribute, we in turn limit what problems we can solve.”
“As long as you live, there's always something waiting; and even if it's bad, and you know it's bad, what can you do? You can't stop living.”
“Necessity knows no magic formulae-they are all left to chance. If a love is to be unforgettable, fortuities must immediately start fluttering down to it like birds to Francis of Assisi's shoulders.”
“Up to our own day American history has been in a large degree the history of the colonization of the Great West. The existence of an area of free land, its continuous recession, and the advance of American settlement westward, explain American development.”

Source : "The Significance of the Frontier in American History" (1893) See Bancroft 1; Turner 2

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