It is a common trait of primates to become submissive and even worshipful toward one who has the power to kill them.
If an architect's ego is very small, he is done for it; if it is vast then he might make some very important contributions.
It is only logical that the pauperization of our soul and the soul of society coincide with the pauperization of the environment. One is the cause and the reflection of the other.
We must redefine the American Dream before we can rebuild the infrastructure on which it is based.
Just when you think you know something, it gets turned around and challenged in some way. But those changes are welcome because you end up learning more.
Names can be a doorway into knowing who a person is, and that is certainly true of God. A study of His names is a study of who He is and will be for you.
The psychical condition of men's minds may be compared with a set of bells close together, and so arranged that in the ordinary man a bell rings only when one beside it sounds, and the vibration lasts only a moment. In the genius, when a bell sounds it vibrates so strongly that it sets in action the whole series, and remains in action throughout life. The latter kind of movement often gives rise to extraordinary conditions and absurd impulses, that may last for weeks together and that form the basis of the supposed kinship of genius with insanity.
I like that feeling of discombobulation that comes in creating an absurd world that doesn't make sense.