Doe Quotes - Page 262

No two of us learn our language alike, nor, in a sense, does any finish learning it while he lives.

The new generation of consoles has as much power to do the kind of games that we do as the PC does.

Does a bibliophile ever have enough room on his shelves? The answer is obvious: get more shelves.

History seldom destroys that which does not deserve to die; and the burning of the tares makes for the next sowing a richer soil.

The individual succumbs, but he does not die if he has left something to mankind.

The morality of the 21st century will depend on how we respond to this simple but profound question: Does every human life have equal moral value simply and merely because it is human?

I don't care whether the person is guilty or not guilty. It's not my business to establish guilt or innocence. It's a court of law that does that and a jury does that, but not me.

Charity even for one person does not make sense except in terms of an effort to love all Creation in response to the Creator's love for it.

When people can't use you, they ridicule what you represent. I was lucky that I understood that, because when one does not understand that, it is very easy to be broken and to be subdued.

There is no eloquence which does not agitate the soul.

All art does but consist in the removal of surplusage.

It is not enough to ask yourself, 'Does God's Word permit me to use these good things of the world?' You must also inquire, 'Will it serve the glory of God?'and, 'Will it edify my fellow Christians?'

Postmodernism does not facilitate better art. It rationalizes inferior art by wrapping it in words - a suit of armor with nobody inside.

I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free.

I often think it's comical How Nature always does contrive That every boy and every gal That's born into the world alive Is either a little Liberal Or else a little Conservative!

When his highness sends a ship to Egypt, does he trouble his head whether the mice on board are at their ease or not?

And yet I am happy. Yes, happy. I swear. I swear that I am happy...What does it matter that I am a bit cheap, a bit foul, and that no one appreciates all the remarkable things about me-my fantasy, my erudition, my literary gift...I am happy that I can gaze at myself, for any man is absorbing-yes, really absorbing! ... I am happy-yes, happy!

Those who are not capable of sinning are said that they have attained freedom. The knowledge of the Truth raises them even more. This makes them both free and above this world. But only Love creates. He who became free thanks to knowledge, because of Love remains a slave of those who have not managed to attain the Freedom of knowledge yet. He brings the knowledge to them and this develops the latter because it calls them to the Freedom. Love takes nothing: how can it take something? Everything belongs to it. It does not say, "This is mine! And this is mine!" But it says: "This is yours!"

The transitoriness of our existence in now way makes it meaningless. But it does constitute our responsibleness; for everything hinges upon our realizing the essentially transitory possibilities.

The sun does what it does because the earth tilts.

To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.

The holy law of Jesus Christ governs our civilisation, but it does not yet permeate it.

God is so great, he does not even need to exist.

The only pertinent political question in relation to an identity [or its photograph] is not Is it really coherent? but What does it actually achieve?

Candor does not provide us with protection, sustenance, or technological innovation. Therefore you are expendable to us.