Doe Quotes - Page 248

A further point is that, little by little, in the current universe, everything is slowly being named; nor does this have anything to do with the older Aristotelian universals in which the idea of a chair subsumes all its individual manifestations.

I'm in no way suggesting that I succeed, but it's inspiring to read somebody who does succeed and from whom, in a general way, you can draw examples and nourishment and sustenance.

It is true that the politician, in his professional character, does not always, or even very often, conform to the most approved pattern of private conduct.

Whenever anybody does well spiritually, I usually ignore them. It's the greatest compliment I can pay them.

Simply because you can perform feats of power does not mean you are, in the classical sense, fully enlightened. It means that you have mastered a few aspects of the mystical kundalini. That's all it means.

The thousand petal lotus of light, the crown center, really does not become operative until one is on the verge of enlightenment itself. Then you really don't have to meditate on it. The thousand petals gradually light up.

In fact, the new malleability of the image may eventually lead to a profound undermining of photography's status as an inherently truthful pictorial form... If even a minimal confidence in photography does not survive, it is questionable whether many pictures will have meaning anymore, not only as symbols but as evidence.

Strangely enough, Kathy Jordan is getting to the net first, which she always does.

It's like learning a language; you can't speak a language fluently until you find out who you are in that language, and that has as much to do with your body as it does with vocabulary and grammar.

There can be knowledge of the diabolical, but no belief in it, for more of the diabolical than there is does not exist.

In Paradise, as always: that which causes the sin and that which recognizes it for what it is are one. The clear conscience is Evil, which is so entirely victorious that it does not any longer consider the leap from left to right necessary.

One size does not fit all.

An anarchist does not want to rule others and does not want others to rule him. Nothing is so despicable as half-an-anarchist.

The universe does not work by our rules

The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere.

Nature does not loathe virtue: it is unaware of its existence.

The dress does not make the monk. [Fr., L'habit ne fait le moine.]

Everyone agrees that a secret should be kept intact, but everyone does not agree as to the nature and importance of secrecy. Too often we consult ourselves as to what we should say, what we should leave unsaid. There are few permanent secrets, and the scruple against revealing them will not last forever.

One thing which makes us find so few people who appear reasonable and agreeable in conversation is, that there is scarcely any one who does not think more of what he is about to say than of answering precisely what is said to him.

When does life begin? When does the soul enter? That's a religious question. Science is not going to be able to help with that.

Choose to believe in your own myth your own glamour your own spell a young woman who does this (even if she is just pretending) has everything.

The 3 questions of greatest concern are:, 1) Is it attractive?, 2) Is it amusing?, 3) Does it know its place?

It sometimes looks as though woman would not be woman unless man insisted upon it, since she tends so markedly to be just a human being when away from men, and only on their approach does she begin to play her required role.

The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention.

Every morning between 9 and 12 I go to my room and sit before a piece of paper. Many times, I just sit for three hours with no ideas coming to me. But I know one thing. If an idea does come between 9 and 12 I am there ready for it.