#it

...set your fantasies in the here and now and then, if challenged, claim to be writing Magical Realism. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#challenge

Whoa," said Nico as he climbed off the bus. "Is that a climbing wall?" "Yeah," I (Percy) said. "Why is there lava pouring down it?" "Little extra challenge..." - Percy ↗

— Rick Riordan

#climbing-wall #lava #nico-di-angelo #percy-jackson #percy-jackson-and-the-olympians

To me, a witch is a woman that is capable of letting her intuition take hold of her actions, that communes with her environment, that isn't afraid of facing challenges. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#challenge #commune #environment #intuition #witch

A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library. ↗

— Shelby Foote

#library #university #universe

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#universe

When you photograph people in color, you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in Black and white, you photograph their souls! ↗

— Ted Grant

#color #photography #street-photography #photography

Women's liberation is one thing, but the permeation of anti-male sentiment in post-modern popular culture - from our mocking sitcom plots to degrading commercial story lines - stands testament to the ignorance of society. Fair or not, as the lead gender that never requested such a role, the historical male reputation is quite balanced. For all of their perceived wrongs, over centuries they've moved entire civilizations forward, nurtured the human quest for discovery and industry, and led humankind from inconvenient darkness to convenient modernity. Navigating the chessboard that is human existence is quite a feat, yet one rarely acknowledged in modern academia or media. And yet for those monumental achievements, I love and admire the balanced creation that is man for all his strengths and weaknesses, his gifts and his curses. I would venture to say that most wise women do. ↗

— Tiffany Madison

#feminism #life #maleness #modernity #philosophy

Some people like the Jews, and some do not. But no thoughtful man can deny the fact that they are, beyond any question, the most formidable and most remarkable race which has appeared in the world. — Winston S. Churchill ↗

— Ellen Brazer

#espionage #historical-novel #history #holocaust #intrigue

Historical determinism is a recipe for political quietism. ↗

— Terry Eagleton

#apathy #apolitical #determinism #historical-determinism #history

And once you've been to this Center, this Truth, you'll know your way everywhere. You are never lost again. ↗

— David Housholder

#historical-fiction #spirituality #young-adult #historical