Reads tagged with “out of print”
Thomas Carlyle on What Self-Help Really Means and the Healing Power of Love in Moments of Blackest Despair
“The feeling of recklessness and stormy self-help, when friends grow cold, and the world seems to cast us off, and the heart gathers force from its own wretchedness, converting its ‘tortures into horrid arms.’ There is strength here and dignity…”
Carl Sagan on Mystery, Why Common Sense Blinds Us to the Universe, and How to Live with the Unknown
“We are bathing in mystery and confusion… That will always be our destiny. The universe will always be much richer than our ability to understand it.”
Carl Sagan on the Enchantment of Chemistry, with Stunning Illustrations by Artist Vivian Torrence
“We too are made of starstuff.”
Conversations with the Earth: Geologist Hans Cloos on the Complementarity of Art and Science in Illuminating the Splendor of Nature and Reality
“There is another, inner way… which binds the artist to the world. He who walks this trail sees the beauty of the earth, and hears its music.”
“A Wrinkle in Time” Author Madeleine L’Engle on Self-Consciousness and the Wellspring of Creativity
“When we can play with the unself-conscious concentration of a child, this is: art: prayer: love.”
Stunning, Sensual Illustrations for a Rare 1913 Edition of Walt Whitman’s ‘Leaves of Grass’ by English Artist Margaret C. Cook
“Thoughts, silent thoughts, of Time and Space and Death…”
Stephen Hawking on the Meaning of the Universe
A rare existential reflection from the man who set out to devise a theory of everything.
The Constitution of the Inner Country: Leonard Cohen on Language and the Poetry of Presence
“The poem is nothing but information. It is the Constitution of the inner country.”
Nobel-Winning Physicist Niels Bohr on Subjective vs. Objective Reality and the Uses of Religion in a Secular World
“The fact that religions through the ages have spoken in images, parables, and paradoxes means simply that there are no other ways of grasping the reality to which they refer. But that does not mean that it is not a genuine reality. And splitting this reality into an objective and a subjective side won’t get us very far.”
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