All Quotes

""Truth-seeking, then, is his being or essence as human.”"

""Only the truth satisfies and fulfills his nature.”"

"And since Space is divisible in infinitum, and Matter is not necessarily in all places, it may be also allow'd that God is able to create Particles of Matter of several Sizes and Figures, and in several Proportions to Space, and perhaps of different Densities and Forces, and thereby to vary the Laws of Nature, and make Worlds of several sorts in several Parts of the Universe."

"[T]o derive two or three general Principles of Motion from Phænomena, and afterwards to tell us how the Properties and Actions of all corporeal Things follow from those manifest Principles, would be a very great step in Philosophy."

"[T]he Instinct of Brutes and Insects, can be the effect of nothing else than the Wisdom and Skill of a powerful ever-living Agent."

"[W]e are not to consider the World as the Body of God, or the several Parts thereof, as the Parts of God. He is an uniform Being, void of Organs, Members or Parts, and they are his Creatures subordinate to him, and subservient to his Will."

"There are therefore Agents in Nature able to make the Particles of Bodies stick together by very strong Attractions. And it is the Business of experimental Philosophy to find them out."

"Now the smallest Particles of Matter may cohere by the strongest Attractions, and compose bigger Particles of weaker Virtue; and many of these may cohere and compose bigger Particles whose Virtue is still weaker, and so on for divers Successions, until the Progression end in the biggest Particles on which the Operations in Chymistry, and the Colours of natural Bodies depend, and which by cohering compose Bodies of a sensible Magnitude."

"[A]ll material Things seem to have been composed of the hard and solid Particles above-mention'd, variously associated in the first Creation by the Counsel of an intelligent Agent. For it became him who created them to set them in order. And if he did so, it's unphilosophical to seek for any other Origin of the World, or to pretend that it might arise out of a Chaos by the mere Laws of Nature."

""A prime example of linear painting where lines and contours appear like cutouts.” Page text."

""Broke away from Fernando Amorsolo’s romanticism of Philippine scenes” to pioneer modernist approaches." Page text."

""justly famous as the maker of the Filipino pantheon—Andres Bonifacio signing his Katipunan oath in blood, Jose Rizal felled by a firing squad, Lapulapu in all his majesty." Page text."

"Writing visits like grace. Its greatest gift is the comfort if not the joy of transformation. In an inspired moment, we almost believe that anguish can be made bearable and injustice can be overturned, because they can be named. And if we’re lucky, joy can even be multiplied a hundredfold, so we may have reserves in the cupboard for the lean times."

"Pride is a sin, but dignity is a saviour."

"The eyes catch a black bird close to an eerie sun. Instantly, a poem: an accident of composition."

"Sometimes you are damaged. You think poetry will repair you. You think poetry should repair you. You shake your fist at it when it doesn’t. You walk hand-in-hand with your damage, into the world. You do not speak. You are surprised when people register you are there."

"A lot of people telling the same story from their various points of view."

"“I created this novel as a homage to the comics, anime, movies, books, series and video games that I grew up in.” — afterword of *Escapist Dream* (author statement)"

"“Every time I log into the dream world, it feels like stepping into my first video game.” — placeholder"

"“We make our own stories, not just follow someone else’s.” — placeholder"

"“Funny how a world of games and memes can feel more alive than real life.” — placeholder"

"“Escaping into games or stories can help you learn about yourself.” — placeholder"

"“Sometimes the hardest boss is yourself, not the game.” — placeholder"

"“Friendship is about standing by someone, not winning battles.” — placeholder"

"“Humor helps us enjoy life even when it’s hard.” — placeholder"

"“Being a fan isn’t just playing games, it’s feeling like you belong somewhere.” — placeholder"

"“The virtual world can teach lessons that real life sometimes doesn’t.” — placeholder"

"Pop Culture & Geek Life:** Talks about anime, comics, video games, and fandom."

"Escapism & Identity:** Characters use virtual worlds to find meaning and face real issues."

"Friendship & Growth:** Themes about helping friends and personal growth."

"Humor & Satire:** Jokes, memes, and funny scenes make the ideas enjoyable."

"“Mind and imagination are one. Without imagination there is no thinking nor intuition beyond concept.”"

"“Concepts without intuition are empty, says Immanuel Kant; intuitions without concept are blind.”"

""What we call the ‘universal plane’ is not the realm of eternal verities, but rather, the site of everlasting quest and questioning.”"

""The imagination, our mind’s profoundest faculty or power, makes real to the mind what it abstracts as the truth in our experience.”"

"'Language, a conceptual, evocative system of representation, is our only means to translate into an apprehensible verbal form our thoughts and feelings about our world in our own time and culture.”"

"“In speech and writing, language translates—that is to say, ferries across its words—our perception of reality.”"

""Our words are concepts, abstractions.”"

"“The word evokes an image, the image lights up its meaning.”"

"“The imagination, to repeat, makes real to the mind what the mind abstracts from our experience, what the mind perceives or intuits in the world.”"

"“What is most real is what is most imagined.”"

"“The meanings of our words do not arise from themselves, or from their differential play, so much as from lives lived in a given historical time and culture.”"

"“What meaning dwells in one’s experience is its truth, its saysay.”"

"“Truth-saying or truth-bearing is the very nature of language.”"

"“Greek poiein, ‘to make,’ yields the English word ‘poem’; hence, poem is a generic term for all kinds of literary work, poetry for imaginative literature, and the poet, a figure for all writers as literary artists.”"

"“The poem or literary work is work of language and work of imagination—both.”"

"“The poet forges his own path through the wilderness of language—where the words contend for their own image and meaning—for his own clearing in that wilderness.”"

"“To write, then, is to get real, to breathe life into language.”"

"“Every reader apprehends that meaningfulness or diwa in light of his own life experience, in his own historical time and cultural space.”"

"“Ubuntu, says Nelson Mandela – freely translated: ‘I am because we are.’”"