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Philippines Author C JoyBell C has written, “I have entered into the darkest regions of myself, bearing torches and lighting candles. I have left a...
Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei has said, “I don’t understand how the God who gave me intellect can prevent me from using it. Whatever the...
English novelist Rudyard Kipling says, “Of all the lies in the word, the fearsome lies are your fear.” No power in the world can defeat you; you...
Post-WWI literature is deeply influenced by Freud’s psychological theories. The first example of this in American literature is Sherwood...
American writer HP Lovecraft has said, “We must recognize the essential underlying savagery in the animal called man, and return to older and...
Francis Bacon says, “Get intellect first, the rest of the things either you will have or you would not feel their absence in your life.” While...
Japanese writer Chokodo Shujin has said; “Modern society is facing an existential crisis. People everywhere, on every occasion, talk and shout about...
In the three-volume book A Scots Quair written by Lewis Grassic Gibbon, four thousand-year-old stones are depicted standing against clouds. A scene...
Famous astronomer and cosmologist Carl Sagan in his book, Pale Blue Dot, writes that spaceship Voyager-1 flew in 1977 from Cape Canaveral and is still...
All thinkers consider crime, sin and evil to be the result of ignorance. They say when a person commits a crime or a sin, it is because he is not...
A uthor JM Green says: “Everyone has a history. What you do with it is up to you. Some repeat it. Some learn from it. The really special ones use it...
A uthor JM Green says: “Everyone has a history. What you do with it is up to you. Some repeat it. Some learn from it. The really special ones use it...
At the age of 40, Franz Kafka, who never married and had no children, walked through the park in Berlin when he met a girl who was crying because she...
Alexandre Dumas says, “there is a peculiarity in the wounds inflicted on souls. They hide, but they do not heal, nor do they disappear! They are...
Man is an animal first, then a man. He is an advanced animal with intelligence, creativity and aesthetic. A nation that suppresses natural needs is...
Ivan Goncharov has said: “When you don’t know what you’re living for, you don’t care how you live from one day to the next. You’re happy the...
Bronnie Ware is an Australian nurse who spent several years working in palliative care, caring for patients in the last 12 weeks of their lives. She...
I don’t know how much time has passed, but I have yet to come to the conclusion whether we are sheep or wolves. The more I thought the more I...
W H Auden had said if the Greek civilisation had not exited, we would never have become fully conscious. How did the universe originate? What is...
In 2021, the Noble Prize in Literature has been awarded to Tanzanian-British novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah. He wrote a novel, Memory of Departure, in...
In the history of nations, the rise and fall has always been a mystery and historians have thought a lot on: why does a nation develop? Ibn-e-Khaldun,...
According to Aristotle says, Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.” Author Arthur Gordon tells of a time in his life when he began to...
If you ever happen to visit a bedlam, what you will see will not only be soul-stirring for you, but will also make you ashamed of being a human. Human...
Human history cannot be divided into ancient, medieval and modern periods. This division of history was created by medieval thinkers. According to...
According to German historian Karl Von Rotteck, there were three important events in the history of the world: the spread of Christianity; the...
Erich Fromm says: “Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching...
In a cinema house in America, before the beginning of a feature film, a short film is run which successfully conveys a message despite the absence of...
In 1957, two writers were voted for the Nobel Prize. Albert Camus secured one vote more than what Nikos Kazantzakis bagged and was awarded the Nobel...
All of us spend our lives in accumulation of wealth and attainment of positions. For gathering thereof, we tell lies and deceive others. If our...
In the manifesto of the International Labour Orgainzation, which won the Nobel peace prize in 1969, it is written that if you want peace, cultivate...
Dostoyevsky would not imagine life without belief. In his masterpiece, The Brothers Karamazov, he writes that goodness and evil are busy fighting each...
I n the margins of Friedrich Nietzsche’s book, On the Genealogy of Morality, WB Yeats wrote, “but why does Nietzsche think that the night has no...
French novelist Gustave Flaubert’s famous novel Madame Bovary is an epoch-making creation because its heroine Emma Bovary, despite being poor, dares...
In the parable, Before the Law, Franz Kafka represents the law as a physical space. The entire story is about a man who is trying to get through a...
Sigmund Freud says, “Repressed emotions never die, but are buried alive and come out in terrible ways.” Ernest Hemingway, who won the Nobel-Prize...
English writer John Bunyan begins his book, Pilgrims Progress, with these words written in 1848: “While wandering through the wilderness of this...
Shortly before his death, Franz Kafka wrote a letter with a pencil to his close friend Max Brod, which he received after his death. “Dear Max,...
Portuguese writer Jose Saramago writes: “For the first time as a child, I had a gas balloon in my hand. I was running down a road. I was so happy...
American naturalist Henry David Thoreau said, “Seeing yourself is as difficult as seeing someone without looking back.” Colombian novelist Gabriel...