“Is it not unsettling to consider the blind unlikelihoods that shape one’s fate?”
Michael Shea (1946–2014) writer
Source: A Quest for Simbilis (1974), Chapter 7, “The Stronghold of Simbilis” (p. 134)
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“Is it not unsettling to consider the blind unlikelihoods that shape one’s fate?”
Michael Shea (1946–2014) writer
Source: A Quest for Simbilis (1974), Chapter 7, “The Stronghold of Simbilis” (p. 134)
“Would you really know what philosophy offers to humanity? Philosophy offers counsel.”
Seneca the Younger book Epistulae morales ad Lucilium
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter XLVII: On master and slave
John O'Donohue (1956–2008) Irish writer, priest and philosopher
Source: Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom
“In my view all salvation for philosophy may be expected to come from Darwin's theory”
Ludwig Boltzmann (1844–1906) Austrian physicist
"Theoretical Physics and Philosophical Problems, Selected Writings", Ludwig Boltzmann, ed. B. McGuinness, 1974, p. 193
“If you want the best the world has to offer, offer the world your best.”
Neale Donald Walsch (1943) American writer
Jacques Lipchitz (1891–1973) American and French sculptor
Source: Jacques Lipchitz: The Artist at Work, 1966, p. 199
Thomas Robert Malthus (1766–1834) British political economist
Essay on the Principle of Population (1798; rev. through 1826)