Doe Quotes - Page 181

Let no one go hungry away. If any of the kind of people should be in want of corn, supply their necessities, provided it does not encourage them in idleness.

A good act does not wash out the bad, nor a bad act the good. Each should have its own reward.

He who praises another enriches himself far more than he does the one praised. To praise is an investment in happiness. The poorest human being has something to give that the richest could not buy.

To free a man from suffering, he must be set right, put in health; and the health at the root of man's being, his rightness, is to be free from wrongness, that is, from sin. A man is right when there is no wrong in him. I do not mean set free from the sins he has done: that will follow; I mean the sins he is doing, or is capable of doing; the sins in his being which spoil his nature — the wrongness in him — the evil he consents to; the sin he is, which makes him do the sin he does.

What immigration really does is redistribute wealth away from workers toward employers.

If Art does not enlarge men's sympathies, it does nothing morally.

If everything that ever lived is dead, and everything alive is gonna die...where does the sacred part come in?

One of the reasons so many nonfiction books are so boring is because what they've done, very diligently, is fulfill the terms of their proposals. They've written up their proposal, long-form, and often what this does is then set up a sort of serial deal, where the whole book can essentially be reduced back to the size of the original proposal!

It matters whether you see yourself as someone who is capable of effecting change or whether you see yourself as someone whose voice does not count. It matters whether you treat yourself with reverence or with carelessness. Every bit of work you do on yourself matters. Every time you choose love, it matters.

If a person does not harm any living being...and does not kill or cause others to kill - that person is a true spiritual practitioner

If the selflessness of phenomena is analyzed and if this analysis is cultivated, it causes the effect of attaining nirvana. through no other cause does one come to peace.

Like fresh milk a bad deed does not turn at once. It follows a fool scorching him like a smouldering fire.

If a tree falls in the woods, and nobody is around to hear it, and it hits a mime, does anyone care?

Creativity is a god who comes around only when he pleases, and it isn't very often. But when he does come around, he sits at my desk and folds his wings and I offer him whatever he wants.

Humor, a good sense of it, is to Americans what manhood is to Spaniards, and we will go to great lengths to prove it. Experiments with laboratory rats have shown that, if one psychologist in the room laughs at something a rat does, all of the other psychologists will laugh equally. Nobody wants to be left holding the joke.

Hope does not necessarily have to take an object.

God is necessary, and therefore must exist...But I know that he does not and cannot exist...Don't you understand that a man with these two thoughts cannot go on living?

How good life is when one does something good and just!

If you would attain to your highest, go look upon a flower;what the flower does willessly, that do willingly.

If a woman possesses manly virtues, she is to be run away from; and if she does not possess them, she runs away herself.

The noble type of man feels himself to be the determiner of values, he does not need to be approved of, he judges 'what harms me is harmful in itself', he knows himself to be that which in general accords honour to things, he creates values.

One does not want to be deceived, under the supposition that it is injurious, dangerous, or fatal to be deceived.

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.

One does not know - cannot know - the best that is in one.