Allen O'Brien

“Seeing is metamorphosis, not mechanism.”
― James Elkins, The Object Stares Back: On the Nature of Seeing – How Sight Alters the Seen and Transforms the Seer

“We being satiate with continual wars, let the desire of peace a little move us.”
― Desiderius Erasmus, Against War

“The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.”
― Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus, Adagia. Lateinisch / Deutsch

“It is a profound mistake to imagine that Christianity ever intended to dissipate the bewilderment and even the terror, the sense of our own nothingness, which come upon us when we think about the nature of things. It comes to intensify them. Without such sensations there is no religion. Many a man, brought up in the glib profession of some shallow form of Christianity, who comes through reading Astronomy to realize for the first time how majestically indifferent most reality is to man, and who perhaps abandons his religion on that account, may at that moment be having his first genuinely religious experience. . . . Christianity does not involve the belief that all things were made for man.”
― C.S. Lewis, Miracles