We
"We are all captives of the picture in our head – our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists." – Walter Lippmann
"We are bemused and crazed creatures, strangers to our true selves, to one another, and to the spiritual and material world – mad, even, from an ideal [...]
We II
"We may very well be something different from what we believe ourselves to be, on this earth for reasons that may not yet be known to us." – Whitley Strieber, author of Communion
"We are in a maze…which we built and then we fell into and can't get out… We did it voluntarily; [...]
Weakness
"You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?" – Robert Louis Stevenson
"It is a talent of the weak to persuade themselves that they suffer for something when they suffer from something; that they are showing [...]
Whale
"The story of the whale swallowing Jonah, though a whale is large enough to do it, borders greatly on the marvelous; but it would have approached nearer to the idea of a miracle if Jonah had swallowed the whale." – Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason
"If the Bible had said that Jonah swallowed [...]
Prison Guard
"People become excited trying to know if the prison came from the guard or if the guard came from the prison; even though this agitation has had a primordial historical importance, today it risks provoking delayed astonishment, if only because of the disproportion between the consequences of the debate & its radical insignificance." – Georges [...]
Whole Truth
"There are no whole truths; all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil." – Alfred North Whitehead
"What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup." – Boris Pasternak
Why?
"The thing that is incredible is life itself. Why should we be here in this sun-illuminated universe? Why should there be green earth under our feet?" – Edwin Markham, 1852-1940
"Why do you and I exist? Why was this world created? Since it was to be created, why was it not created sooner?" – Samuel [...]
Wings
"There are two lasting bequests we can give our children. One is roots. The other is wings." – Hodding Carter, Jr.
"The man who has no imagination has no wings." – Muhammad Ali
"No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings." – William Blake
"Come to the edge, he said. [...]
Wisdom
"When you learn to distinguish between the container and the contents, you will have attained wisdom." – Idries Shah
"We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it – and stop there." – Mark Twain
Within
"What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us." – Henry David Thoreau
"Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us." – Francis Bacon
"It seems to me that the only true Christians were (are? the Gnostics who [...]
