By: Carl Sagan (From Broca’s Brain) IT WAS A MUSEUM, in a way like any other, this Musée de l’Homme, Museum of Man, situated on a pleasant eminence with, from the restaurant
By: W.W. Jacobs “Be careful what you wish for, you may receive it.” – Anonymous PART ONE Outside, the night was cold and wet, but in the small living room the curtains
FABLES OF PHÆDRUS When Athens was flourishing under just laws, liberty grown wanton embroiled the city, and license relaxed the reins of ancient discipline. Upon this, the partisans of factions conspiring, Pisistratus the
By: Bertrand Russell CHAPTER I IS there any knowledge in the world which is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it? This question, which at first sight might not seem
By: O. Henry That was all. She had put it aside, one cent and then another and then another, in her careful buying of meat and other food. Della counted it three
By: Percy Bysshe Shelley O! there are spirits of the air, And genii of the evening breeze, And gentle ghosts, with eyes as fair As star-beams among twilight trees:— Such lovely ministers
By: Richard Aldington The ancient songs Pass deathward mournfully. Cold lips that sing no more, and withered wreaths, Regretful eyes, and drooping breasts and wings— Symbols of ancient songs Mournfully passing Down
Thirty spokes
meet in the hub.
By: A.C. Grayling Jean-Paul Sartre lived a very public life, and serves as a paradigm of the engage intellectual. His talents were wide ranging: he wrote novels, plays, biography and criticism as
A Man Oh Socrates! Thou must listen to this poor wretch for, he now no more wants to live. Life is ill and meaningless for him. Then why not, is not ceasing