That Hideous Strength, by CS Lewis, Scribner Classics, 1996 Page 17. … thought gave him the same curious sensation which a man has when he discovers that his father once very nearly married a different woman. Page 18. In the wall there was a door. It lead you into a covered gallery pierced with narrow [...]
Quotes ‘n Stuff
I like reading books, lots of books. I read books of many philosophies, some ugly, some beautiful, but all relevant to life in this fallen world. The list of books I have read is found here.
When I read books, it is invariably with highlighter in hand. I mark passages that might be important, wonderful, funny, wicked; basically things that I think are interesting, for whatever reason. Perhaps I am mistaken, but hopefully some readers will find these lists stimulating, intriguing, and potentially helpful in their own search for truth. If I hear any other interesting quotes, from any source, I’ll cite them too.
In this category I will provide the lists of quotes, as they are made available digitally.
Perelandra, by C.S. Lewis, Scribner Classics, 1972. Page 38. The orb itself remained invisible, but on the rim of the sea rested an arc of green so voluminous that he could not look at it, and beyond that, spreading almost to the zenith, a great fan of colour like a peacock’s tail. . . [...]
Postmodern Times: A Christian Guide to Contemporary Thought and Culture, by Gene Edward Veith, Crossway Books: Wheaton, Il., 1994 p. 19. Today as we enter the twenty-first century, a new worldview is emerging. The “modern,” strange as it is to say, has become old-fashioned. The twentieth century, for all of its achievements and catastrophes, is [...]
Title The Dancing Wu Li Masters Author Gary Zukav Publisher Perennial, 2001 Page xxviii. Another reason is that the Dancing Wu Li Masters contains within it the seed of the thought that consciousness lies at the heart of all that we can experience, all that we can conceive, and all that we are. It also [...]
Title The Quark and the Jaguar Author Murray Gell-Mann Publisher WH Freeman and Company, New York, 1994 Page 6. Give me a good night’s sleep, freedom from distractions, and time unburdened by worries and obligations, and I can work. . . . … quantum mechanics permits, even in principle, only the calculation of probabilities. …. [...]
Title No One Left to Lie to Author Christopher Hitchens Publisher Verso, 1999 Page 11. The Cheyenne-Arapaho peoples of Oklahoma have been attempting for years to regain land that was illegally seized from them by the federal government in 1869. Page 14. … Jesse Jackson and other members of the stage-Army of liberalism… Page 24. [...]
Title Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track, The Letters of Richard Feynman Author Richard Feynman (editor: Michelle Feynman) Publisher Basic Books, 2005 Page 106. I have found that I have little interest in the activities of the Academy, so would you please accept my resignation as a member. Page 232. Too much training, saying [...]
Title Cargo, Cult and Culture Critique Author Edited by Holger Jebens Published University of Hawaii press, 2004 Page 15. Cargo Cult at the Third Millennium, by Lamont Lindstrom Cargo cults blossomed in the postwar 1940s and 1950s throughout the Melanesian archipelagoes of the southwest Pacific. People to traditional or innovative religious ritual to obtain "cargo." [...]
Title “Surely You’re Joking Mr. Feynman!” Author Richard Feynman Publisher W.W. Norton and Company, New York, 1985 Page 49. I made some other observations while dreaming. Apart from always asking myself, “Am I really dreaming in color?” I wondered, “how accurately do you see something?” Page 63 So MIT was good, but Slater was right [...]
Alexis De Tocqueville writes on being regulated to death in his Democracy in America, Vol 2, 1840 After having thus successively taken each member of the community in its powerful grasp and fashioned him at will, the government then extends its arm over the whole community. It covers the surface of society with a network [...]
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