Brian Johnson Philosopher Quotes & Sayings

The Most Dangerous Book In America — Michael Mayhem

There are only really a few stories to tell in the end, and betrayal and the failure of love is one of those good stories to tell. — Sean Lennon

The systems they (the Arts) nourish, which include our integrated sensory, attentional, cognitive, emotional, and motor capacities, are, in fact, the driving forces behind all other learning. — Eric Jensen

We tend to look through language and not realize how much power language has. — Deborah Tannen

Though my short stories are the more readable, my novels do have more to say; and they will, if anyone has the patience for it, repay a rereading. — R.A. Lafferty

Our children... have a passionate need for the dimension of transcendence, mysticism, way-outness. We're not offering it to them legitimately. The tendency of the churches to be relevant and more-secular-than-thou does not answer our need for the transcendent. As George Tyrrell wrote about a hundred years ago, "If a [man's] craving for the mysterious, the wonderful, the supernatural, be not fed on true religion, it will feed itself on the garbage of any superstition that is offered to it. — Madeleine L'Engle

The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great. — Edmund Burke

Among other things, the catechism said: "Ill treatment of animals bears witness to a cruel and godless heart." The boy recited, "A hundred and eleven treatment of animals bears witness to a cruel and godless heart. — Halldor Laxness