#cal

SF is the literature of the theoretically possible, and F is the literature of the impossible. ↗

— Piers Anthony

#literature #possible #sf #theoretically

The Sophists' paradoxical talk pieces and their public debates were entertainment in 5th century Greece. And in that world, Socrates was an entertainer. ↗

— David Antin

#debates #entertainer #entertainment #greece #paradoxical

While I've had a great distaste for what's usually called song in modern poetry or for what's usually called music, I really don't think of speech as so far from song. ↗

— David Antin

#distaste #far #great #had #i

Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth. ↗

— Mary Antin

#growth #longer #mothers #our #ourselves

God should not be called an individual substance, since the principal of individuation is matter. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

#god #individual #individuation #matter #principal

Of all possible sexual perversions, religion is the only one to have ever been scientifically systematized. ↗

— Louis Aragon

#ever #only #possible #religion #scientifically

The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal in domestic affairs, specifically in the matter of revolution. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#appeal #become #domestic #dubious #gained

Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a no less definite end in the theories of Karl Marx. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#beginning #believe #came #definite #end

When the mother of the race is free, we shall have a better world, by the easy right of birth and by the calm, slow, friendly forces of evolution. ↗

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#better world #birth #calm #easy #evolution

A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart. ↗

— Pietro Aretino

#bear #bearing #calamities #cowardice #flee