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A child, not knowing what is extraordinary and what commonplace, usually lights midway between the two, finds interest in incidents adults consider beneath notice and calmly accepts the most improbable occurrences.
Gene Wolfe • The Fifth Head of Cerberus: Three Novellas
Blatant logical contradiction
I go out for a walk to free
my working memory
filled with subroutines
still running
stumble on a root
whose child branches out
in depth and breadth above
acyclic graph with leaf nodes
high above me
natural hierarchy.
Involuntarily I calculate
how long it’d take me
to traverse it
overflow
take a minute to reverse
reset
force myself to look at colors
overhead
and
poetry and gold and dross
I found it was their daily taunt against Christianity that it was the light of one people and had left all others to die in the dark. But I also found that it was their special boast for themselves that science and progress were the discovery of one people, and that all other peoples had died in the dark.
G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton • Orthodoxy
“The mere facts! Do you really admit—are you still so sunk in superstitions, so clinging to dim and prehistoric altars, that you believe in facts?
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
“I think God has given us the love of special places, of a hearth and of a native land, for good reason…because otherwise, we might worship eternity, the largest of the idols-the mightiest of the rivals of God…
God bade be love one spot and serve it, and do all things however wild in praise of it, so that this one spot might be a witness against all
... See more"Desire nothing for thyself, seek nothing, be not anxious or envious. Man's future and thy own fate must remain hidden from thee, but live so that thou mayest be ready for anything. If it be God's will to prove thee in the duties of marriage, be ready to fulfill His will."
Leo Tolstoy • War and Peace
It’s easy—very easy—to slay a ruler. But it’s very difficult to prevent a worse one from coming to his place.”
Gene Wolfe • The Urth of the New Sun: The sequel to 'The Book of the New Sun'
"Go, my son, and do something worth doing,"