Michael D. O'Brien — Island of the World: A Novel

To love mankind merely in the abstract', he once said, 'is one face of a single coin, and on its other side is hatred of mankind in the abstract. To love in truth is to serve the suffering person before you, and to do wh…

Theophilos, the light of reason that we both reverence is not a god. Neither does the highest development of the human mind confer divinity upon us. We may quote Aristotle one moment and in the next find ourselves betray…

Jednostavno je ratovati,najte'e je odr'ati mir.

Our world is drowning in communication, but starving for genuine communio'the union of true communion.

He is interested not so much in imparting information as implanting in us the tools of awareness.

I suspect that I shall be broken; I suspect that I shall finally live. Save me, Emily! Save me from this shattering we are pleased at times to call love.