Doe Quotes - Page 182

In art the end does not sanctify the means: but sacred means employed here can sanctify the end.

He who does not need to lie is proud of not being a liar.

You say 'I' and you are proud of this word. But greater than this- although you will not believe in it - is your body and its great intelligence, which does not say 'I' but performs 'I'.

The person lives most beautifully who does not reflect upon existence

Conservatives are inclined to use the powers of government to prevent change or to limit its rate to whatever appeals to the more timid mind. In looking forward, they lack the faith in the spontaneous forces of adjustment which makes the liberal accept changes without apprehension, even though he does not know how the necessary adaptations will be brought about.

You have to elevate yourself to that point and bring your mind into the Godhead, into nirvana, into that perfect and pure radiant knowledge. It will not come to you. It never does.

God himself does not give answers. He gives himself.

When, then, does plunder stop? It stops when it becomes more painful and more dangerous than labor.

The history of the world, as it is written and handed down by word of mouth, often fails us completely; but man's intuitive capacity, though it often misleads, does lead, does not ever abandon one.

Just because you are an architect and make decent buildings does not mean that you can suddenly become a set designer for one of the best avant-garde dancers in the world.

Just because something is beautifully written does not mean it is true.

Man as a pure animal does not exist

Mixed dinner parties of ladies and gentlemenare very rare, which is a great defect in the society; not only as depriving themof the most social and hospitable manner of meeting, but as leading to frequent dinner parties of gentlemen without ladies, which certainly does not conduce to refinement.

Everything one sees is merely a projection of what one does not see, its true nature and substance.

Just because you have so much to give does not mean that they'll all be accepted. There's more to giving than just giving.

The "great tradition" does not brook even the possibility of libidinal gratification between the pages as an end in itself, and FR Leavis's "eat up your broccoli" approach to fiction emphasises this junkfood/wholefood dichotomy.

Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.

A wretched child Is he who does not return his parents' care.

Because others cannot vibrate in your experience, they cannot affect the outcome of your experience. They can hold their opinions, but unless their opinion affects your opinion, their opinion matters not at all. A million people could be pushing against you, and it would not negatively affect you unless you push back. They are affecting what happens in their experience. They are affecting their point of attraction - but it does not affect you unless you push against them.

Age does not bring you wisdom, age brings you wrinkles.

It is habit for me to discount myself before somebody else does it for me. Better to get in the first lick

Art does not copy nature - it suggests it.

My garden does not whet the appetite; it satisfies it. It does not provoke thirst through heedless indulgence, but slakes it by proffering its natural remedy. Amid such pleasures as these have I grown old.

Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?

There is no transcendent creator in animism, no god who set the clocks ticking and decides which ones to fix when they falter; nothing exists outside of nature. In other words, my philosophy does not require that I believe in something I cannot experience directly.