For a long time on Earth humans didn’t worship good gods; that’s a new idea. The ancient Greek gods, the Hindu gods, are fairly amoral, most of them. We get stuck when we insist that God be both good and all-powerful.
BARBARA EHRENREICHKnowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action; the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action.
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I have never yet failed to get a hearing (with a Hindu) if I talk to them about forgiveness of sins and peace and rest in your heart.
BAKHT SINGH -
Once I began to consider everything as being of potential interest, objects released latent layers of value.
ALAIN DE BOTTON -
Whether you are a Democrat or Republican, whether you are a liberal or a conservative, we know that neither this President nor prior Presidents of both parties did everything right or we would not have had a 9/11.
CHARLES SCHUMER -
There are very few men of genius in advertising agencies. But we need all we can find. Almost without exception they are disagreeable. Don’t destroy them. They lay golden eggs.
DAVID OGILVY -
All rising curves that show unwelcome trends in human affairs will approach infinity if extended far enough, but it is we who dictate the curve and not vice versa.
NIELS BOHR -
Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.
BARUCH SPINOZA -
If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.
ANATOLE FRANCE -
As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.
CLARENCE DARROW -
I don’t fully understand movements in the gold price.
BEN BERNANKE -
There is beauty in everything, but people somehow find a way to ruin it all.
H. DCOSTA -
Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is the best.
FRANK ZAPPA -
Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring.
HONORE DE BALZAC -
Intuition is a very powerful thing, more powerful than intellect.
STEVE JOBS -
Some men aren’t looking for anything logical, like money. They can’t be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.
MICHAEL CAINE -
I want to be a collaborative thing and be part of the audience and have them be part of me.
BILLIE EILISH -
There are those who believe justice and dignity are reserved only for some people. Young men have died in police custody, and the growing heel of poverty has worn down harder on children of color…We must fight back.
ELIZABETH WARREN -
Great hearts can only be made by great troubles. Great faith must have great trials.
CHARLES SPURGEON -
The easiest way to a happy life is; instead of making others lose, make them win.
BK SHIVANI -
Artists are here to disturb the peace.
JAMES BALDWIN -
I race to win. If I am on the bike or in a car it will always be the same.
VALENTINO ROSSI -
To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.
STEVE PREFONTAINE -
The quiet sense of something lost.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON -
Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.
AESCHYLUS -
The appeal of the spectrally macabre is generally narrow because it demands from the reader a certain degree of imagination and a capacity for detachment from everyday life.
H. P. LOVECRAFT -
Every day I feel is a blessing from God. And I consider it a new beginning. Yeah, everything is beautiful.
PRINCE -
It appears, then, that ethics, as a branch of knowledge, is nothing more than a department of psychologyand sociology.
A.J. AYER