#ible

In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#art #bible #education #in other words #language

Like Leibniz's possible worlds, most men are only equally entitled pretenders to existence. There are few existences. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#equally #existence #existences #few #leibniz

The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#being #especially #incomprehensible #languages #method

Losing a child is probably the singular most horrible thing. ↗

— Laura Schlessinger

#horrible #losing #most #probably #singular

Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social justice and of equal opportunity. ↗

— Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.

#achievement #american #american life #crucible #democratic

It's easy to imagine ways the future can be ugly and depressing. It's harder, but more worthwhile, to imagine plausible ways we can make it better. ↗

— Stanley Schmidt

#depressing #easy #future #harder #imagine

Its limitations are those of the physical universe: it won't let you play with some really wild ideas that aren't possible, but are fun to speculate about. ↗

— Stanley Schmidt

#fun #ideas #limitations #physical #play

What SF can do better than anything else is show us the range of our possible futures, and what we can do to realize the good ones and avoid the nasty ones. ↗

— Stanley Schmidt

#avoid #better #else #futures #good

Has one hostage from Lebanon come back with a photograph of his abductors? Has any hostage ever come back with a photograph of his abductors smiling? I mean, this was so incredible! ↗

— Dwight Schultz

#back #come #ever #his #hostage

It's horrible to think that a small cadre of people would manipulate that information. I mean, for God's sake, we've admitted that we were experimenting on our veterans with mustard gas. So there is no security question. It can't possibly be the reason. ↗

— Dwight Schultz

#cadre #experimenting #gas #god #horrible