Often Quotes

I’ve often noticed that we are not able to look at what we have in front of us, unless it’s inside a frame.

Often the block [in writing] comes from the wall of words that keep out the simplicity of sense.

When you win, you often lose, that’s just a fact. There’s no currency to straighten a warped spirit, or open a closed heart, a selfish heart.

And often times it gets manipulated, sometimes intentionally, by pulling things out of context.

We often do not see what we do not expect to see.

We often represent God to ourselves as being able to draw from non-being a world without sorrows, faults, dangers – a world in which there is no damage, no breakage. This is a conceptual fantasy and makes it impossible to solve the problem of evil.

If you escape from people too often,, you wind up escaping from yourself.

Be hated. One does not have to be evil to be hated. In fact, it’s often the case that one is hated precisely because one is trying to do right by one’s own convictions.

Things have gotten openly more extreme in the last few years. I was lecturing in Hungary, whose prime minister, Victor Orban, is an example of this trend.

Man has a tendency to try to give clear reasons to be rational, but often you can see how all those reasons are not convincing and turn out to be a big nonsense.