It is not architectural achievement that makes the structures of earlier times seem to us so full of significance but the circumstance that antique temples, Roman basilicas, and even the cathedrals of the Middle Ages are not the works of single personalities but creations of entire epochs.
There is indeed the possibility that the evolutionary process has, in gray antiquity, bred into us an excess of aggression.
It's normal that elections make fierce partisans of many of us. It's normal that Mr. Trump would attract the usual right-wing buffoons to his banners. Normal, also, is that many voters may not be troubled by Mr. Trump's cruder statements when they hear him addressing their deepest economic and social anxieties.
My father worked for IBM. My mother raised us kids. There were six of us, and a couple of extra foster kids at any given time.
I like Muhammad a lot, because he's like us more than anybody else. Jesus is just so exalted, and Buddha is just so exalted, it's almost beyond our reach.
I am against boycotts in general: boycotts against us as well as anything and everything that can be boycotted.
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us.
We don't apologize for a joke. We are comics. We are here to make you laugh. If you don't get it, then don't watch us.
Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.
Reality only appears to us tragical because of the disequilibrium and confusion of its appearances.
Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.
Could the garment and appliance industries be in cahoots together, creating an artificial sock demand to keep us buying?
It is important for all of us to appreciate where we come from and how that history has really shaped us in ways that we might not understand.
To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.
Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
The point of Jesus' existence wasn't to lessen or diminish our appreciation of each other, but to expand our appreciation of each other by reminding us what lies within all of us, because Jesus was an example of the pinnacle of human evolution.
You have major labels that are willing to take unconventional approaches because the old model is crumbling in front of us.
We need to consider a financial transactions tax. And we need to ask whether the top marginal tax rates are really appropriate, given that the effective tax rates paid by the wealthy are often actually lower than those paid by the rest of us.
Conscience allows us to do two things: Pass judgment on ourselves; approve or condemn our own conduct.
