Maxioms by Dennis Prager
Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of read more
Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example?
Complexity and profundity have been equated by the academic culture just as fame and significance have been conflated by the read more
Complexity and profundity have been equated by the academic culture just as fame and significance have been conflated by the popular culture. Fame and significance have nothing to do with one another; and complexity and profundity have nothing to do with one another.
Although images of perfection in people's personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societies� utopian images� can cause monstrous read more
Although images of perfection in people's personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societies� utopian images� can cause monstrous evil. In fact, forcefully changing society to conform to societal images was the greatest cause of evil in the twentieth century.
When I grew up, the conservatives were the isolationists and the liberals were the idealists. Now it's reversed.
When I grew up, the conservatives were the isolationists and the liberals were the idealists. Now it's reversed.
My tragic view of life... leads me to have little patience with the chronic complaining I hear in modern society read more
My tragic view of life... leads me to have little patience with the chronic complaining I hear in modern society from people who have so much yet act as if life and society have conspired to oppress them.
