Doe Quotes - Page 170

All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.

Once you've started cheating, does it really matter what your methods are?

Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.

Nature delights in making use of the same forms in the most various biological connections: as it does, for instance, in the appearance of branch-like structures both in coral and in plants, and indeed in some forms of crystal and in certain chemical precipitates.

The question of naturalism is a fallacy, it does not exist... The photographic image replaces naturalistic experience.

A tiger does not ignore or slight any small animal. The way he catches a mouse and catches and devours a cow are the same.

Does virtual intimacy degrade our experience of the other kind and, indeed, of all encounters, of any kind?

That's what God does. He doesn't try to cover up our flaws; He starts from scratch and makes us new.

Art is a personal gift that changes the recipient. The medium doesn't matter. The intent does.

What does civilization mean to you, and what would its ending bring to the world?

To the person who does not know where he wants to go there is no favorable wind.

That's what opium does to suffering: makes it of hypothetical interest only.

Money does not make you happy but it quiets the nerves.

It's amazing how the world does actually go on in the middle of things that should stop it for us.

Fortunately for us, life's highway has as many on ramps as it does off ramps.

A millionaire is a person who is free, who does what she loves, who has unlimited materials, her choice of tools, abundance, inspiration, freedom and an inflated sense of entitlement to have, create and get more.

A person is what his life is. Therefore, if he does not modify anything within himself, if he does not radically transform his life, if he does not work on himself, he is miserably wasting his time.

There's no way to reconcile Islam with Christianity. This difference of opinion admits of compromise as much as a coin toss does.

As a child, a library card takes you to exotic, faraway places. When you're grown up, a credit card does it.

This is what an excellent teacher does; he does not follow his disciples' fancy everywhere, but leads them to his own mind, and pulls up the thorns, and then puts the seed in, and does not answer at once in all cases to the questions put to him.

If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me?

This awful catastrophe is not the end but the beginning. History does not end so. It is the way its chapters open.

The past is weird. I mean, does it really exist ? It feels like it exists, but where is it ? And if it did exists, but doesn’t now, then where did it go ?

Any fool can waste, any fool can muddle, but it takes something of a man to save, and the more he saves the more of a man does it make of him.

Are you entitled to the fruits of your own labor or does government have some presumptive right to spend and spend and spend?