James Rozoff

Simplistic ideas are the weapons with which the thoughtful are clubbed.

Most animals sleep in a hole in the ground or hanging from a tree. Man alone has made for himself an elaborate resting place. And yet he is the only one to have developed the alarm clock to rouse himself from it, the only species to spend sixteen or more hours of each day away from it.

People perceive the divine according to their own biases. That doesn__ make the experience any less real.

The intellect seeks to throw its own interpretation of the real over reality, and in so doing carves the world up into artificial little cubes.

Where there is hope there is life.

Technology is the idol of our age. The Bible describes the evils of worshipping things built by the hand of man. Back then, it was a simple statue, today it is far more insidious. And for every problem technology creates, we look to technology for solutions.

It really was amazing, thought Mindy, the way modern electronics made it so easy to ignore those people who were physically so close.

Heaven is fleeting, but Hell is an eternity. Hell becomes the more so the longer one lives it.

The definition of stupid is the inabilitly to see another side to an argument other than one's own.

Stories nowadays are put in to squares, just like everything else. Stories are ever changing. They are like rivers that flow, but mankind is busy trying to dam them up and as a result, they become stagnant. They divert the water into square swimming pools, and then add chemicals to it in order to keep it sterile.

Stories are like DNA, they shape the culture that they__e a part of. A society is not a society without its own unique stories. But we allow machines to make our stories, nowadays, or at least to tell them. We allow things to shape our understanding of who we are. We are entertained, not nurtured. We are given Twinkies for our mind, things that amuse but do not enlighten. It tickles our taste buds, but it does not enrich us.

I pity the atheist, for he can never fully appreciate a sinful pleasure.

A truth told once is no match for a lie oft repeated.

Ignorance is a horrible thing. But arrogance, the belief that knowing a little more than the ignorant makes you wise, is more horrible still.

Contrary to popular belief, you can make people think, but they will hate you for it.

There is no greater thing than to be oneself, and it is never too late to do so.

If you want a language to survive, capture great thoughts within it. William Shakespeare has ensured Elizabethan English will never perish from this world.