Food-for-thought Quotes

Why does that obstinate little voice in our heads torment us so?' he said, looking round the table. ...

Misery is manifold. The wretchedness of earth is multiform. Overreaching the wide horizon as the rai...

How little we know of what there is to know.

In his book The African Slave Trade, Basil Davidson contrasts law and in the Congo in the early 16th...

Slavery was immensely profitable to some masters. James Madison told a British visitor shortly after...

True coolness is the incidental by-product of higher pursuits.

We say that the world is made of sea and land, as though they were equal; but we know that there is ...

The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

You must remember what you are and what you have chosen to become, and the significance of what you ...

Today, it isn't unusual for meat to travel almost halfway around the globe to reach your supermarket...

Do not forget, some give little, and it is much for them, others give all, and it costs them no effo...

For a product to carry a health claim on its package, it must first have a package, so right off the...

If you stand in a wheat field at this time of year, a few weeks from harvest, it's not hard to imagi...

Kids are never the problem. They are born scientists. The problem is always the adults. They beat th...

The Universe was opaque until 380.000 years after the Big Bang.

They will become Godly when they will have God in their hearts.

Our current modes of rationality are not moving society forward into a better world. They are taking...

Thanksgiving dinner's sad and thankless. Christmas dinner's dark and blue. When you stop and try to ...

Look into the eyes of a chicken and you will see real stupidity. It is a kind of bottomless stupidit...

Between living and dreaming there is a third thing. Guess it.

The 'practical' man, as this word is often used, is one who recognizes only the material needs, who ...