#log

The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting. ↗

— Peter Kreeft

#catholicism #christianity #jesus-shock #philosophy #pleasure

We're not excusing the ones who are mean, but I want girls to understand the psychology. It's not in everyone. But the bully needs to put this pain somewhere. ↗

— Elizabeth Berkley

#everyone #excusing #i #mean #needs

What we want to be is something completely new. There is no physical analog for what Amazon.com is becoming. ↗

— Jeff Bezos

#analog #becoming #com #completely #new

Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know? ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#epistemology #know #knowledge #study

I have a better internal and intuitive understanding of folklore and myth than science and technology, so in that way fantasy is easier. ↗

— Sarah Zettel

#easier #fantasy #folklore #i #internal

Working in Hollywood, it's clear the more money you have, the more technology you can get. So you can build a whole Japanese set. Only in Hollywood! ↗

— Ziyi Zhang

#clear #get #hollywood #japanese #money

A merely symbolic religion does not threaten the ruling regime of materialistic science. ↗

— Nancy Pearcey

#creationism #faith #faith

Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#advantages #devil #disagreeable #distance #his

To apologize is to lay the foundation for a future offense. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#foundation #future #lay #offense

Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization. ↗