You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best educati...on of all. If a man carries many such memories into life with him, he is saved for the rest of his days. And even if only one good memory is left in our hearts, it may also be the instrument of our salvation one day.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Imagine that it is you yourself who are erecting the edifice of human destiny with the aim of making men happy in the end, of givi...ng them peace and contentment at last, but that to do that it is absolutely necessary, and indeed quite inevitable, to torture to death only one tiny creature, the little girl who beat her breast with her little fist, and to found the edifice on her unavenged tears--would you consent to be the architect on those conditions?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all... life in the world depended, would dry up at once.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To see the earth as we now see it, small and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see ourselves as riders on t...he earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the unending night--brothers who see now they are truly brothers.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is with our brothers and sisters that we learn to love, share, negotiate, start and end fights, hurt others, and save face. The... basis of healthy (or unhealthy) connections in adulthood is cast during childhood.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The quickness with which all the "stuff" from childhood can reduce adult siblings to kids again underscores the strong and complex... connections between brothers and sisters.... It doesn't seem to matter how much time has elapsed or how far we've traveled. Our brothers and sisters bring us face to face with our former selves and remind us how intricately bound up we are in each other's lives.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Whether changes in the sibling relationship during adolescence create long-term rifts that spill over into adulthood depends upon ...the ability of brothers and sisters to constantly redefine their connection. Siblings either learn to accept one another as independent individuals with their own sets of values and behaviors or cling to the shadow of the brother and sister they once knew.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »