Maynila Quotes & Sayings

Strange as it seems, we appear to be the only species who do not have an instinctive ability to know what food we should eat to stay healthy. All other animals do. We consider ourselves a superior species, yet we are destroying the only planet we have, endangering our very existence. — Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

All is extremely genteel; and there is almost as much repose as in the golden saloons of the contiguous palaces. At any rate, if there be as much vice, there is as little crime. — Isaac D'Israeli

Schwitzgebel even scrounged up the missing-book lists from dozens of libraries and found that academic books on ethics, which are presumably borrowed mostly by ethicists, are more likely to be stolen or just never returned than books in other areas of philosophy.49 In other words, expertise in moral reasoning does not seem to improve moral behavior, and it might even make it worse (perhaps by making the rider more skilled at post hoc justification). — Jonathan Haidt

I love you, Kahlan. Never anyone before you, nor ever after. Only you." His eyes said it even better. — Terry Goodkind

By Jove the stranger and the poor are sent, and what to those we give, to Jove is lent. — Homer

Without exception, the brave new technologies of the twentieth century - free use of which was originally encouraged, for the sake of further invention and individual expression - eventually evolved into privately controlled industrial behemoths, the "old media" giants of the twenty-first, through which the flow and nature of content would be strictly controlled for reasons of commerce. — Tim Wu

Loveliness of the spirit is worth more than loveliness of the flesh. — S. Jae-Jones