Johnsonian Reconstruction Quotes & Sayings

A family is a cracked mirror that nevertheless reflects us accurately. — Mariel Hemingway

The lesson is that you're just an animal in a cage, no more than that, no better than that. — Stephen King

Bored by safety, the lover grows jealous and exacting. — Mason Cooley

The insular arrogance of the English character is a commonplace joke. — Goldwin Smith

If we see to it that the Israelis, Palestinians and Jordanians have jobs, we will actually be securing our own future. — Stef Wertheimer

The undisciplined are slaves to moods, appetites and passions — Stephen R. Covey

Religion of Blue Circle : Language of Love
Religious Leader Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans
September 1, 2016 — Petra Hermans

Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. — Sigmund Freud

Satan, on the contrary, is thin, ascetic and a fanatical devotee of logic. He reads Machiavelli, Ignatius of Loyola, Marx and Hegel; he is cold and unmerciful to mankind, out of a kind of mathematical mercifulness. He is damned always to do that which is most repugnant to him: to become a slaughterer, in order to abolish slaughtering, to sacrifice lambs so that no more lambs may be slaughtered, to whip people with knouts so that they may learn not to let themselves be whipped, to strip himself of every scruple in the name of a higher scrupulousness, and to challenge the hatred of mankind because of his love for it
an abstract and geometric love. — Arthur Koestler

That's what a conscience is made of, scar tissue ... Little strips and pieces of remorse sewn together year by year until they formed a distinctive pattern, a design for living. — Margaret Millar

The purpose of human existence is to learn and to understand as much as we can of what came before us, so we can further the sum total of human knowledge in our life. — Erik Naggum