Doe Quotes - Page 169

A thought once awakened does not again slumber.

A man who will not leave his room because he does not know how, or is afraid to open the door, is trapped just the same whether or not the door is locked.

Grace does not destroy nature, it perfects it.

Faith does not quench desire, but inflames it.

Praise adds nothing to your holiness, nor does blame take anything from it. You are what you are, and you cannot be said to be better than you are in God's sight.

A book has but one voice, but it does not instruct everyone alike.

Bourgeois society is ruled by equivalence. It makes the dissimilar comparable by reducing it to abstract quantities. To the enlightenment, that which does not reduce to numbers, and ultimately to the one, becomes illusion.

He who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to the image of the past, but to the past itself.

The reaper does not listen to the harvest.

SCIENCE: a way of finding things out and then making them work. Science explains what is happening around us the whole time. So does RELIGION, but science is better because it comes up with more understandable excuses when it's wrong.

OK, so truth hurts - but what else does truth do?

North Korea. Not only does North Korean have nuclear weapons, but their leadership appears to not be rational.

Theirs is the party that ... responds to the death of Americans at Benghazi by asking, What difference does it make?

note the similarities with buddhism a buddhist who has achieved nirvana is not sad primarily because it does not know the concept of sad [...]

I never know where I am going, though. That is part of what makes it so wonderful. And after all, who does?

Ambition, if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.

The modern fairy tale ending is the reverse of the traditional one: A woman does not wait for Prince Charming to bring her happiness; she lives happily ever after only by refusing to wait for him -- or by actually rejecting him. It is those who persist in hoping for a Prince Charming who are setting themselves up for disillusionment and unhappiness.

When I erase a word with a pencil, where does it go?

The professional loves her work. She is invested in it wholeheartedly. But she does not forget that the work is not her.

Do you love your idea? Does it feel right on instinct? Are you willing to bleed for it?

[G]enes make enzymes, and enzymes control the rates of chemical processes. Genes do not make "novelty seeking" or any other complex and overt behavior. Predisposition via a long chain of complex chemical reactions, mediated through a more complex series of life's circumstances, does not equal identification or even causation.

As if a device can function if it has no style. As if a device can be called stylish that does not function superbly... yes, beauty matters. Boy, does it matter. It is not surface, it is not an extra, it is the thing itself.

Hey-ho, it's raining inside: it isn't my fault and there's nothing I can do about it, but sit it out. But the sun may well come out tomorrow and when it does, I shall take full advantage.

You can read a Shakespeare play, but does that mean you wouldn't want to see it on the stage?

It does not matter much what happens.