#cat

As expected, the church lady grumbled something incoherent and put Bridget’s call on hold. A peppy rendition of “City of God” blared as hold music just long enough for Bridget to start to sing along with the chorus. Catholic brainwashing at its best. ↗

— Gretchen McNeil

#city-of-god #religion #snark #music

Father Nicholas Steno, is often identified as the father of geology. ↗

— Thomas E. Woods Jr.

#geology #science #western-civilization #catholicism

The first person to measure the rate of acceleration of a free falling body was Father Giambattista Riccioli. ↗

— Thomas E. Woods Jr.

#science #western-civilization #catholicism

Father Roger Boscovich is often credited as the father of modern atomic theory. ↗

— Thomas E. Woods Jr.

#science #western-civilization #catholicism

Churchmen sought to introduce rational trial procedures and sophisticated legal principles in place of the superstition-based trial by ordeal that had characterized the Germanic legal order. ↗

— Thomas E. Woods Jr.

#law #catholicism

The person who fights monsters should make sure that in the process, he does not become a monster himself. Because when you stare down at an abyss, the abyss stares back at you. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#fight #identification #self-realization #uncertainly #self-realization

Throw a stick, and the servile dog wheezes and pants and stumbles to bring it to you. Do the same before a cat, and he will eye you with coolly polite and somewhat bored amusement. And just as inferior people prefer the inferior animal which scampers excitedly because someone else wants something, so do superior people respect the superior animal which lives its own life and knows that the puerile stick-throwings of alien bipeds are none of its business and beneath its notice. The dog barks and begs and tumbles to amuse you when you crack the whip. That pleases a meekness-loving peasant who relishes a stimulus to his self importance. The cat, on the other hand, charms you into playing for its benefit when it wishes to be amused; making you rush about the room with a paper on a string when it feels like exercise, but refusing all your attempts to make it play when it is not in the humour. That is personality and individuality and self-respect -- the calm mastery of a being whose life is its own and not yours -- and the superior person recognises and appreciates this because he too is a free soul whose position is assured, and whose only law is his own heritage and aesthetic sense. ↗

— H.P. Lovecraft

#dogs #lovecraft #business

You cannot know where your people are going if you don't know where your people have been. ↗

— Forrest Carter

#past #education

Really. Is there anything nice to be said about other people's vacations? ↗

— Amor Towles

#amor

The most complicated skill is to be simple. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#dejan-stojanovic #literature #literature-quotes #poetry #poetry-quotes