Now there was a great wind, so strong that it was splitting mountains and breaking rocks in pieces before the LORD, but the LORD w...as not in the wind; and after the wind an earthquake, but the LORD was not in the earthquake; and after the earthquake a fire, but the LORD was not in the fire; and after the fire a sound of sheer silence. When Elijah heard it, he wrapped his face in his mantle and went out and stood at the entrance of the cave. Then there came a voice to him that said, -What are you doing here, Elijah?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
America had no use for Adams because he was eighteenth-century, and yet it worshipped Grant because he was archaic and should have... lived in a cave and worn skins.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The fireside for the cricket, The wheatstack for the mouse,... When trembling night-winds whistle And moan all round the house;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There are four classes of idols which beset men's minds. To these for distinction's sake I have assigned names--calling the first ...class Idols of the Tribe; the second, Idols of the Cave; the third, Idols of the Market-Place; the fourth, Idols of the Theatre.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A jellyfish and a saurian, And caves where the cave men dwell;... Then a sense of law and beauty, And a face turned from the clod-- Some call it Evolution, And others call it God.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The human mind is indeed a cave swarming with strange forms of life, most of them unconscious and unilluminated. Unless we can und...erstand something as to how the motives that issue from this obscurity are generated, we can hardly hope to foresee or control them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We are not cave dwellers anymore, we live in the age of technology. When someone needs a car, he does not need to build it. He can... buy it. When someone needs a murder, he himself does not need to kill. He can order it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »