Odin's Ravens

“He is Galahad and Socrates, bringing high adventure to our dull existences and calm, judicial logic to our biased minds,” wrote Edgar W. Sm...

“The consequence of forging life by purpose and resolution is a sense of inner harmony, a dynamic order in the contents of consciousness,” w...

The word of the day is “sanewashing.” Columbia Journalism Review ’s Jon Allsop observes that major mainstream news outlets are routinely quo...

“Book love, my friends, … lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will support you when all other recreations are gone. It will last you unt...

They are not long, the weeping and the laughter, Love and desire and hate: I think they have no portion in us after We pass the gate. They a...

Cognitive linguist and philosopher George Lakoff on the nature of American political freedom: “The traditional idea of freedom is progressiv...

Agatha Christie and her novels “During domestic chores I could always relax my mind completely.  Robert Graves once said to me that washing ...