Fuscescens Quotes & Sayings

And though it is most certain, that two lutes being both strung and turned to an equal pitch, and then one played upon, the other will warble a faint audible harmony in answer to the same tune: yet many will not believe there is any such thing as sympathy of souls, and I am well pleased that every reader do enjoy his own opinion. — Izaak Walton

I always thought it was both impious and unnatural that such immanity and bloody strife should reign among professors of one faith. — William Shakespeare

Christ knew that by bread alone you cannot reanimate man. If there were no spiritual life, no ideal of Beauty, man would pine away, die, go mad, kill himself or give himself to pagan fantasies. And as Christ, the ideal of Beauty in Himself and his Word, he decided it was better to implant the ideal of Beauty in the soul. If it exists in the soul, each would be the brother of everyone else and then, of course, working for each other, all would also be rich. Whereas if you give them bread, they might become enemies to each other out of boredom. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Convictions are not merely beliefs we hold; they are those beliefs that hold us in their grip. — Albert Mohler

Did they find something wanting in you, Gemma, at the party? You didn't speak too freely or behave ... strangely?
I grew claws and bayed at the moon. I confessed that I eat the hearts of small children. I told them I like the French. — Libba Bray

With Shakespeare, the hard work is to find out why he said it and how it can relate to the audience. — Ruben Santiago-Hudson

You know what killed off the dinosaurs, Whateley? We did. In one barbecue. — Neil Gaiman

Doing many more things until it seemed that ritual had replaced grief. — V.S. Naipaul

Science is teaching man to know and reverence truth, and to believe that only so far as he knows and loves it can he live worthily on earth, and vindicate the dignity of his spirit. — Moses Harvey