Doe Quotes - Page 247

The past of the soul is so distant! The soul does not live on the edge of time. It finds its rest in the universe imagined by reverie.

Its not possible to do the wrong thing. You do what you do and you experience the consequences of what you do. If you do not experience this before you doe, your soul creates a new life so that you can. This is reincarnation. Eventually, you treat people as you would like to be treated.

In a complex and troubling world, who wouldn't want to simplify? Everybody does. Everybody wants to simplify and put up a picket fence.

To "bear arms" is, in itself, a military term. One does not bear arms against a rabbit.

Using the commons as a cesspool does not harm the general public under frontier conditions, because there is no public, the same behavior in a metropolis is unbearable.

What does he say?' he asked. 'He’s very sad,’ Úrsula answered, ‘because he thinks that you’re going to die.' 'Tell him,' the colonel said, smiling, 'that a person doesn’t die when he should but when he can.

A person does not belong to a place until there is someone dead under the ground.

All this improvement is great, but all that does is get us in the game to play for improvements that we need in the future, so that we can be aggressive in the marketplace.

Bonhoeffer's emphasis on the deep this-worldliness of Christianity does not lead to de-escahtologizing the gospel.

How does it come about that what an intelligent man expresses is much stupider than what remains inside him?

What does reason know? Reason only knows what it has succeeded in learning.

Where does one not find that bland degeneration which beer produces in the spirit!

But eternal liveliness is what counts: what does "eternal life" matter, or life at all?

Whoever possesses the will to suffering within himself has a different attitude towards cruelty: he does not regard it as inherently harmful and bad.

In what does the objective measure of value lie? In the quantum of enhanced and organized power alone, in accordance with what occurs in all occurrence, a will to increase.

He who does not lie does not know what truth is.

What does a philosopher demand of himself, first and last? To overcome his time in himself, to become "timeless.

Science is about finding ever better approximations rather than pretending you have already found ultimate truth. A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

We forget our guilt when we have confessed it to another, but the other does not usually forget it.

Evolution does not make happiness its goal; it aims simply at evolution and nothing else.

What good is a book that does not even transport us beyond all books?

Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it.

Someone who is about to die does not mourn the dead.

I've had times where I'm like, "Whoops, maybe I shouldn't have done that." But, you know, it does grow out fairly quickly, so it's not the end of the world. If you really mess up, you can always go to somebody who knows what they're doing and have them try to fix it.

One of my favorite actors is Javier Bardem, he always challenges his previous roles, and basically does the unexpected.