Doe Quotes - Page 237

Abortion does not compute with my philosophy.

Value, therefore, does not stalk about with a label describing what it is.

As is well known, all collectors are prepared to steal or murder if it is a question of getting another piece for their collection; but this does not lower their moral character in the least.

On the molecular scale, you find it's reasonable to have a machine that does a million steps per second, a mechanical system that works at computer speeds.

As long as hope does not embrace and transform the thought and action of men, it remains topsy-turvy and ineffective.

I know for a fact that - it's just the way our biases work now in the industry of literature, but certainly a short story collection does not receive the same kind of attention as a novel.

For in the Third Showing when I saw that God does all that is done, I saw no sin: and then I saw that all is well. But when God showed me for sin, then said He: All SHALL be well.

Accepting that the world is full of uncertainty and ambiguity does not and should not stop people from being pretty sure about a lot of things.

Talent is a question of quantity. Talent does not write one page; it writes three hundred.

I've always been obsessed with penetrating the female psyche. When I shoot, I'm like a tornado. I never sit down, never take a break, never eat. I'm focused on getting that moment of revelation, of insight, of poignancy, of meaning.

Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul -- politics does the same thing for the body.

What does it mean to be born? After we die, will it be the same thing as it was before we were born? Or a different kind of nothingness? Because there might be knowledge then. Memory.

I love fantasy. I love horror. I love musicals. Whatever doesn't really happen in life is what I'm interested in. As a way of commenting on everything that does happen in life, because ultimately the only thing I'm really interested in is people.

Let us here observe, that a religion that does not require the sacrifice of all things, never has power sufficient to produce the faith necessary unto life and salvation.

When credulity comes from the heart it does no harm to the intellect.

Imitate time; it destroys everything slowly; it undermines, it wears away, it detaches, it does not wrench.

Genius does not seem to derive any great support from syllogisms. Its carriage is free; its manner has a touch of inspiration. We see it come, but we never see it walk.

How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?

A modern fleet of ships does not so much make use of the sea as exploit a highway.

Through dreams a door is opened to mythology, since myths are of the nature of dreams, and that, as dreams arise from an inward world unknown to waking consciousness, so do myths: so, indeed, does life.

The myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact

The fact that we are living does not mean we are not sick.

Devotion, when it does not lie under the check of reason, is apt to degenerate into enthusiasm.

There is another method of obtaining money... It does not presuppose the existence of accumulated results of previous development, and hence may be considered as the only one which is available in strict logic. This method of obtaining money is the creation of purchasing power by banks. The form it takes is immaterial.

He who knows does not feel wonder. It could not be said that God experiences wonder, for God knows in the most absolute and perfect way.