#standing

Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing. ↗

— Christopher Fry

#birth #brushes #death #may #moth

Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object. ↗

— Northrop Frye

#culture #destroy #essential #forms #idolatry

Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding. ↗

— Louis Gerstner

#compassion #dreams #human #love #machine

The single biggest problem with communication is the illusion that it has taken place. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#misunderstanding #communication

The 90's are the 60's standing on their head. ↗

— Wavy Gravy

#standing #their

Time. Time has a way of standing still during the moments that define one’s life. The first kiss, the birth of one’s first child, a paralyzing car accident, hearing of the death of a parent, the last kiss. ↗

— Benjamin M. Strozykowski

#child #first-kiss #standing-still #time #death

One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is. ↗

— Frank Herbert

#come #computer #could #general #home

When time and space and change converge, we find place. We arrive in Place when we resolve things. Place is peace of mind and understanding. Place is knowledge of self. Place is resolution. ↗

— Abdullah Ibrahim

#change #converge #find #knowledge #mind

If notwithstanding, a Rebellion of the same Kind now afflicts this Country, we should not infer that this Institution is useless, or should be laid aside; but just the Reverse. ↗

— Charles Inglis

#aside #country #infer #institution #just

The knowledge and understanding of the world which science gives us and the magnificent opportunity which it extends to us to control and use the world for the extension of our pleasure in it has never been greater than it now is. ↗

— Polykarp Kusch

#control #extends #extension #gives #greater