Doe Quotes - Page 131

Delusion: belief said to be false by someone who does not share it.

They were not failures, they were new found ways of what does not work "I can accept failure,everyonefails at something. But I can't accept not trying

Remember always your end, and that lost time does not return.

What difference does it make to you what someone else becomes, or says, or does? You do not need to answer for others, only for yourself.

Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.

Change is always in regard to something which does not change, or which changes relatively less.

You can ensure the success of your attacks if you only attack places that are undefended. You can ensure the safety of your defense if you only hold positions that cannot be attacked. Therefore, that general is skillful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skillful in defense whose opponent does not know what to attack.

To be sure, India has achieved enviable success in business services, like the glistening call centers in Bangalore and elsewhere. But in the global jousting for manufacturing jobs, India does not get its share.

I fear that much of the Christianity that surrounds us assumes our task is to save appearances by protecting God from Job-like anguish. But if God is the God of Jesus Christ, then God does not need our protection. What God demands is not protection, but truth.

The real does not die, the unreal never lived.

The idea of demonstrating that this unknown something [God] exists, could scarcely suggest itself to Reason. For if God does not exist it would of course be impossible to prove it, and if he does exist it would be folly to attempt it.

[T]aking the Third into account does not bring us into the position of pragmatic consideration, of comparing different Others; the task is rather to learn to distinguish between false conflicts and the true conflict. For example, today's conflict between Western liberalism and religious fundamentalism is a false one, since it is based on the exclusion of the third term which is its truth: the Leftist emancipatory position.

So it is that God tugs at a pilgrim's sleeve telling him to remember that he is only human. He must be his own man, remain in exile, and belong to himself. He must pay attention to his own feelings and to the meaning of what he does, if he is to be for himself, and yet for others as well.

Gymnastics is not only a good thing to live by, but it is important to understand how it does help you in life.

Axiomatization is what one does last, it's rubbish. It's the hygiene of mathematics, axiomatization.

Nature does not reveal all her secrets at once. We imagine we are initiated in her mysteries: we are, as yet, but hanging around her outer courts.

Don't wait for it to happen, don't even want it to happen - just watch what does happen.

What else does one obtain by realization of God? Does one grow two horns? No, the mind becomes pure, and through a pure mind one attains knowledge and awakening.

The whole world is a dream; even this (the waking state) is a dream ... What you dreamt last night does not exist now.

Veracity does not consist in saying, but in the intention of communicating the truth.

A Scotchman must be a very sturdy moralist who does not love Scotland better than truth.

The chaplain of the Senate does not pray for the Senate. He watches the Senate and prays for the country.

No one can harm the man who does himself no wrong.

When the customer makes contact, he does not want a quote. He wants a commitment.

To know that one does not write for the other, to know that these things I am going to write will never cause me to be loved by the one I love (the other), to know that writing compensates for nothing, sublimates nothing, that it is precisely there where you are not--this is the beginning of writing.