128 Quotes

“The failure in reading -the omnipresent verbalism- of those who have not been trained in the arts of grammar and logic shows how lack of such discipline results in slavery to words rather than mastery of them.”
― Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

“Freedom in the Biblical sense is always at a price; it is a costly gift, and it requires great things of us.”
― R.J. Rushdoony, A Word in Season, Volume 1

“أنا”
― أثير عبدالله النشمي

“What I've learned through my work and what I heard that night in Newtown makes one thing clear: Not enough of us know how to sit in pain with others. Worse, our discomfort shows up in ways that can hurt people and reinforce their isolation. I have started to believe that crying with strangers in person could save the world.”
― Brené Brown, Braving the Wilderness

“...writing is my only talent, and writing has always felt more clarifying than creative to me. But in contemplating this definition, I wonder if one might be creative (or queer, or happy, or held) in spite of oneself.”
― Maggie Nelson, The Argonauts