Browsing Quotes, page 35
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Slowly, like moisture entering the dying tree trunk, slowly filling and rotting it, so did the world and inertia creep into Siddhartha’s soul; it slowly filled his soul, made it heavy, made it tired, sent it to sleep.
Speaker: Hermann HesseSource: SiddharthaPosted: 01 Nov 2009 at 6:20 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“Nothing is caused by demons; there are no demons. Everyone can perform magic, everyone can reach his goal, if he can think, wait, and fast.”
Speaker: Hermann HesseSource: SiddharthaPosted: 01 Nov 2009 at 6:19 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“You are clever, O Samana,” said the Illustrious One, “you know how to speak cleverly, my friend. Be on your guard against too much cleverness.”
Speaker: Hermann HesseSource: SiddharthaPosted: 01 Nov 2009 at 6:16 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“Let me warn you, you who are thirsty for knowledge, against the thicket of opinions and the conflict of words. Opinions mean nothing. they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.”
Speaker: Hermann HesseSource: SiddharthaPosted: 01 Nov 2009 at 6:15 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
A man cannot love his God, and hate his brother: he cannot expect mercy, who shows none.
Speaker: S. M. M'CorklePosted: 14 Oct 2009 at 8:25 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can’t be taken on its own merits.
Speaker: Dan BarkerPosted: 07 Oct 2009 at 7:32 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
Speaker: Douglas AdamsPosted: 07 Oct 2009 at 7:32 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people He gave it to.
Speaker: Dorothy ParkerPosted: 07 Oct 2009 at 7:31 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Sometimes it pays to stay in bed on Monday, rather than spending the rest of the week debugging Monday’s code
Speaker: Dan SalomonPosted: 05 Oct 2009 at 9:11 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
Speaker: E. B. WhitePosted: 29 Sep 2009 at 8:47 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
We don’t see things as they are, we see things as we are.
Speaker: Anais NinPosted: 29 Sep 2009 at 7:00 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
There’s so much pollution in the air now that if it weren’t for our lungs there’d be no place to put it all.
Speaker: Robert OrbenPosted: 27 Sep 2009 at 9:52 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
No one should be denied the opportunity to choose his or her spouse. It is a basic human right and deeply personal decision. Throughout history, we have only moved forward when society has distinguished between traditional values and valueless traditions.
Speaker: Jared PolisPosted: 27 Sep 2009 at 9:34 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
This is the first generation of gay kids who have the great joy of being able to argue with their parents about dating, just like their straight peers do.
Speaker: Ritch Savin-WilliamsPosted: 26 Sep 2009 at 10:12 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence … by the good people.
Speaker: Martin Luther King, Jr.Posted: 25 Sep 2009 at 7:51 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
You hear this all the time; critics of organized religion constantly say things like, “There is no way a just God would send a man like Gandhi to hell simply because he’s not a Christian.” Well, why not? I’m certainly pulling for Gandhi’s eternal salvation, but there’s no reason to believe there’s a logic to the afterlife selection process. It might be logical, and it might be arbitrary; in a way, it would be more logical if it was totally arbitrary. But the idea of questioning God’s motives will always be a fiercely American thing to do; it’s almost patriotic to get in God’s face. I’m pretty sure a lot of my friends would love the opportunity to vote against God in a run-off election. Even I’d be curious to see who the other candidate might be (probably Harry Browne).
Speaker: Chuck KlostermanSource: Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa PuffsPosted: 19 Sep 2009 at 9:35 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
This is ultimately what I like about the Born-Again Lifestyle: Even though I see fundamentalist Christians as wild-eyed maniacs, I respect their verve. They are probably the only people openly fighting against America’s insipid Oprah Culture – the pervasive belief system that insists everyone’s perspective is valid and that no one can be judged. As far as I can tell, most people I know are like me; most of the people I know are bad people (or they’re good people, but they consciously choose to do bad things). We deserve to be judged.
I realize that liberals and libertarians and Michael Stipe are always quick to quote the Bible when you say something like that, and they’ll tell you, “Judge not, lest ye be judged.” And that’s a solid retort for just about anything, really. But the thing with born agains is that they want to be judged. They can’t fucking wait. That’s why they’re cool.Speaker: Chuck KlostermanSource: Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa PuffsPosted: 19 Sep 2009 at 9:31 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
There is something undeniably attractive about becoming a born-again Christian. I hear atheists say that all the time, although they inevitably make that suggestion in the most insulting way possible: Nothing offends me more than those who claim they wish they could become blindly religious because it would “make everything so simple.” People who make that argument are trying to convince the world that they’re somehow doomed by their own intelligence, and that they’d love to be as stupid as all the thoughtless automatons they condescendingly despise.
Speaker: Chuck KlostermanSource: Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa PuffsPosted: 19 Sep 2009 at 9:28 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Good intentions can’t compete with bad policy.
Speaker: Chuck KlostermanSource: Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa PuffsPosted: 19 Sep 2009 at 9:20 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I would never try to convince someone not to hate the media. As far as I can tell, it’s a completely reasonable thing to hate. Whenever I meet someone who feels a sense of hatred for a large, amorphous body – the media, the government, Ticketmaster, the Illuminati, Anna Nicole Smith, whatever – I fully support their distaste. It’s always better to be mad at something vast and unspecific and theoretical, as these entities cannot sue you for defamation.
Speaker: Chuck KlostermanSource: Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa PuffsPosted: 19 Sep 2009 at 9:18 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!
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