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A great tragedy of our time, this epoch of self-righteousness, is the zeal with which people would rather feel right […]

“Man, do not exalt yourself above the animals,” Dostoyevsky admonished in his largehearted case for animal rights. A quarter century

The first English use of the word space to connote the cosmic expanse appears in line 650 of Book I

In his little-known correspondence with Freud about war and human nature, Einstein observed that every great moral and spiritual leader

“The mind is its own place, and in it self can make a Heav’n of Hell, a Hell of Heav’n,”

We were never promised any of it — this world of cottonwoods and clouds — when the Big Bang set

That one mind can reach out from its lonely cave of bone and touch another, express its joys and sorrows

“Who has known the ocean? Neither you nor I, with our earth-bound senses,” Rachel Carson wrote in the pioneering 1937

By Maria Popova The highest and hardest task of life may be to become entirely ourselves — to continually purify