Lighitng up the occasion in strikingly symbolic fashion, rays of sunshine fall before the throne where Pope John XXIII is seated during a cannonization ceremony in St. Peter's Basilica. Rome, Italy. 1959

Men (people) are rarely aware of the real reasons which motivate their actions.

- Edward L. Bernays

Kikuji Kawada  from The Map

Nesting in the crown of Mary at St. Ottilien Archabbey, Oberbayern, Germany.

Isolated, he may be a cultivated individual; in a crowd, he is a barbarian—that is, a creature acting by instinct.

- Gustave Le Bon

Siberian ibex crest a ridge above the Baltoro Glacier, 1970s

"In depressive states," he writes, "the mind may be seen in the image of such an antler, in all its fantastic splendor pinning its bearer to the ground."

- Peter Wessel Zapffe