Welsford Navigator Quotes & Sayings

Now he understood. This was death. Death was a silence that gave back no answer. — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Let me tell you something: for hundreds of thousands of years, this kind of discussion would have been impossible to have, or those like us would have been having it at the risk of our lives. Religion now comes to us in this smiley-face, ingratiating way - because it's had to give so much more ground and because we know so much more. But you've got no right to forget the way it behaved when it was strong, and when it really did believe that it had God on its side. — Christopher Hitchens

Only the intelligent knows how to identify all things as one ... When one is at ease with himself, one is near Tao. This is to let Nature take its own course. — Zhuangzi

It's harder to do work that matters than work that doesn't! — Mani S. Sivasubramanian

This little boy playing next to me is an intellectual mass of cells - better yet, he's a clockwork of subatomic movements, a strange electrical conglomeration of millions of solar systems in minature. [58, Zenith trans.] — Fernando Pessoa

The Doxology ... that testimonial to the Platonic Trinity, which divided the Roman Empire into at least eighteen quarreling sects, none of whom knew what they were fighting about, and which schisms contributed to the decline and fall of this greatest of states. Rome had thrived for one thousand years with pagan gods at the helm and expired after only one hundred and fifty years under the Christian banner. — Ruth Hurmence Green

Life is not short or long, it lies in a moment, for a moment and by the moment. — Santosh Kalwar

The cool contemplation of other people's suffering while one exhibits polished manners in a society that is deemed civil is only a shade less immoral than the direct infliction of suffering. Thus, civilization, as it is often practiced today, is really manufactured, inauthentic civilization. — Stjepan G. Mestrovic