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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 0bd46e4 | You want something to eat?" Nick said, yanking my attention back. "I, uh, could go across the street for some Graeter's. You like butter-pecan ice cream?" | Kim Harrison | ||
| f422036 | had my splat gun, but I wasn't a brave person. I ran away from big-bad-uglies. It increased my life span dramatically. | Kim Harrison | ||
| 7c07b30 | Most people," he said, "are desperate to be needed. And if they don't feel good about themselves or think they're undeserving of love, some will fasten upon the worst possible way to satisfy that need to punish themselves. They're the addicts, the shadows both claimed and unclaimed, passed like the fawning sheep they make themselves into as they search for a glimmer of worth, knowing it's false even as they beg for it." | Kim Harrison | ||
| 42b5db0 | I popped open the hard case and carefully put the so-ugly-they-could-work-as-birth-control glasses on. | Kim Harrison | ||
| 577cec1 | Pink wings in the lowering moon as the earth slipped 'round her silver light. They reached our wall. Our lines were strung. We held our land. What's said is done. | Kim Harrison | ||
| 7fa6a2b | The first went down beneath the oak, stung by the taste of steel in his blood. The second on holy ground did fall, stained with the cries of his folly. The third in the dust and salt did fail, sent back to his master, a silent warning given." Jenks looked up, clearly not seeing me. "This ground is ours. So it is said with broken wing, poisoned blood, and our unburied dead." | Kim Harrison | ||
| 2747406 | Mouse burger," I stated again, arms crossed and hip cocked. "A weenie little man with the courage of a mouse." | Kim Harrison | ||
| 1504bac | Mr. Ray, you yelled at it again, didn't you? I told you, computers are like women. If you shout at them or ask them to do too many things at once, they shut down and you won't even get a sniff. | Kim Harrison | ||
| cf58732 | A person is okay," he said, peering into the darkness and the open street. "But when you put a bunch of us together, something is switched on, something ugly." He glanced at her apologetically. "All of us, humans and nonhumans alike, are genetically primed to attack what's different from the collective." | Kim Harrison | ||
| e611638 | Does this thing move, or do you just sit in it and play with yourself? | Kim Harrison | ||
| f62b3a6 | In exchange for their soul, they had the chance for immortality. It came with a loss of conscience. The oldest vampires claimed that was the best part: the ability to fulfill every carnal need without guilt when someone died to give you pleasure and keep you sane one more day. | Kim Harrison | ||
| 3b62ba4 | We need to cull the programs that don't work and foster the ones that do, throw out political agendas and instead give the power back to the people so that Cincinnati may regain her greatness! My record speaks for me, and I will speak for you! | Kim Harrison | ||
| 6c4b7e3 | Son of a beaver biscuit... | Kim Harrison | ||
| db098e6 | Five trolls in dra-a-a-a-ag," the four-inch man sang from my shoulder. "Four purple condoms, three French ticklers, two horny vamps, and a succubus in the snow." | Kim Harrison | ||
| 06549e0 | giving him a painful bunny-eared kiss-kiss | Kim Harrison | ||
| 2059705 | The coffee smelled wonderful, and as it went chattering into a mug, | Kim Harrison | ||
| 3a329fb | Funny how fate seems to push people together sometimes, | Kim Harrison | ||
| 9420620 | shimmered under his tight jaw | Kim Harrison | ||
| 563062b | There is a quest, but ever more hopeless, for arrangements and ways of putting the broken pieces back together. The task is equivalent to squaring the circle, because everyone loves himself most but wants others to love him more than they love themselves. Such is particularly the demand of children, against which parents are now rebelling. | Allan Bloom | ||
| 360b168 | The very fact of their fury shows how much Plato threatens what is dear and intimate to them. They are little able to defend their experience, which had seemed unquestionable until questioned, and it is most resistant to cool analysis. Yet if a student can- and this is most difficult and unusual- draw back, get acritical distance on what he clings to, come to doubt the ultimate value of what he loves, he has taken the first and most difficu.. | Allan Bloom | ||
| 106f037 | Openness used to be the virtue that permitted us to seek the good by using reason. | Allan Bloom | ||
| 51d4510 | Allan Bloom suggests a difference between European and American nihilism.3 European nihilism is pessimistic. Nietzsche's philosophy proposes dreadful things. It takes one to the abyss of his being. It's a tremendously confounding, depressing, scary, and confusing time. All the more was nihilism scary for the Europeans because they saw what it resulted in, fascism. In a complete breakdown of cosmic order, humanity seeks an Orderer, and any O.. | Peter M. Burfeind | ||
| ddf587d | If the politicization of art and education represents one large part of the counterculture's legacy, the coarsening of feeling and sensibility is another. No phenomenon has done more to advance this coarsening than rock music. It is impossible to exaggerate the importance of rock music to the agenda of the cultural revolution. It is also impossible to overstate its soul-deadening destructiveness. The most reviled part of Allan Bloom's book .. | rock-music | Roger Kimball | |
| 74b08c6 | The faith in God and the belief in miracles are closer to the truth than any scientific explanation, | Allan Bloom | ||
| 926cd52 | Music, as everyone experiences, provides an unquestionable justification and a fulfilling pleasure for the activities it accompanies: the soldier who hears the marching band is enthralled and reassured; the religious man is exalted in his prayer by the sound of the organ in the church; and the lover is carried away and his conscience stilled by the romantic guitar. Armed with music, man can damn rational doubt. | Allan Bloom | ||
| fbc189a | Intr-o societate si o epoca in care ciudatii sunt aruncati in adaposturi, adusi la serenitate pe baza de serotonina si recuperati de catre grup din individualismul lor prea intens si ambitios, cand ce e prea diferit este marginalizat, atunci devine extrem de important pentru constienta natiunii sa afirme activ extraordinarul. Daca eminenta depinde de destin, iar destinul de caracter, atunci putem inversa raportul dintre cele trei notiuni: p.. | James Hillman | ||
| c6237ec | Once she stopped to pluck a pink rhododendron flower that was just coming into bloom and took it back to the ward with her, twirling it in her hands. | Allan Hall | ||
| d8c8b6e | It may well be that a society's greatest madness seems normal to itself. | Allan Bloom | ||
| 89c5a0b | Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. | Allan Bloom | ||
| 2a5e9b6 | Responding to Fukuyama's thesis in 1989, Allan Bloom was full of foreboding about the gathering revolts against a world that 'has been made safe for reason as understood by the market', and 'a global common market the only goal of which is to minister to men's bodily needs and whims'. | Pankaj Mishra | ||
| a52fd6a | in the under or mystic current of its meaning, I fancied that I perceived, and for the first time, a full consciousness on the part of Usher, of the tottering of his lofty reason upon her throne. The verses, which were entitled "The Haunted Palace," ran very nearly, if not accurately, thus: I. In the greenest of our valleys, By good angels tenanted, Once a fair and stately palace-- Radiant palace--reared its head. In the monarch Thought's d.. | Edgar Allan Poe | ||
| 5a1d647 | Lao Tzu wrote: "Know the personal, yet keep to the impersonal: Accept the world as it is. Then the Tao will be luminous inside you, and you will return to the Uncarved Block." There is so much philosophy packed into this verse that it summarizes central teachings about happiness from three great ancient traditions: those not only from Taoism, but also from Buddhism and Stoicism" | Lou Marinoff | ||
| 488aea0 | Your happiness does not depend so much on what kind of body you have, but on how well you take care of it. | Lou Marinoff | ||
| 6dc0a8c | Manando del Tao, el consejo del I Ching apela a nuestro mejor yo, despertando y confiriendo poderes a nuestro Sabio Interior. Si | Lou Marinoff | ||
| 690c211 | I seemed to be the only one who noticed, the only one who was concerned that doing the right thing for the wrong reason doesn't make you a person of integrity. | Lou Marinoff | ||
| f372341 | Quien considera el mundo como considera la fortuna de su propio cuerpo puede gobernar el mundo. A quien ama el mundo como ama a su propio cuerpo puede confiarsele el mundo. Tao Te Ching, poema 13 | Lou Marinoff | ||
| 783d112 | You can wander around these outlet shops for hours, accumulating clothing and accessories until your credit cards melt down. But you will not find one single shop that sells anything for the mind or the soul. There are no books. There is no music. There is no art. There is no poetry. The outlets are a spiritual wasteland. | Lou Marinoff | ||
| 47ce329 | Showing a photograph of a brain lit-up in a certain way, and claiming that this "explains" samadhi, is like showing a picture of a tree lit-up in a certain way, and claiming that this "explains" Christmas." | Lou Marinoff | ||
| 6e4dfd5 | Gia na einai kaneis anthropinos, prepei na sunanastrephetai me anthropous. | ανθρώπινος συναναστροφή | Lou Marinoff | |
| 422f1c4 | if you just need to talk to someone about your circumstances in order to make sense of them, or in order to discern their meaning, purpose and value in your life, then a philosopher may be the right helper for you. | Lou Marinoff | ||
| e57f333 | hacer lo correcto conduce a la felicidad; lo erroneo, a la infelicidad. Esto es absolutamente independiente de quien seas, la edad que tengas y el lugar donde estes. Lo decreta el Camino. | Lou Marinoff | ||
| 3a52150 | The opposite of passionate love is not hatred; it is indifference. | Lou Marinoff | ||
| 948b292 | The avian court follows the Tuuli Thea. They would be hesitant to bring their families so close to the serpiente, at least at first, but hopefully future generations won't be as frightened. And if we let it be known that we will raise our child there, I think that plenty of avian scholars would be willing to go, if only in hopes of 'protecting' the queen's heir. Then of course there may be those who simply wish to curry favor with their mon.. | Amelia Atwater-Rhodes | ||
| d35e7ad | We'll need to speak to Irene, and your mother," I asserted. "If either one of them rejects this idea, there is no way we will succeed. Any potential heirs to either throne--hawk or cobra--must be raised in the same mixed-blood land, or people will feel they can still choose to be apart." Danica nodded, so I continued. "Then I suppose we seek the approval of our respective courts, and allow the information into the markets. Once we are sure .. | Amelia Atwater-Rhodes |