Doe Quotes - Page 317

The loyalty, well held to fools, does make Our faith mere folly.

Any unchecked impulse does, within the human body and psyche, lead to the destruction of the organism.

A writer does not own words any more than a painter owns colors. So lets dispense with this originality fetish… Look, listen and transcribe and forget about being original.

Beautiful thoughts hardly bring us to God until they are acted upon. No one can have a true idea of right until he does it.

Horror does not interest me, and so I know little of its practicioners, old or current

Death cannot kill that which does not die.

It does not pay to be friendly with officers, they take advantage of you.

The First Amendment...does not say that in every respect there shall be a separation of Church and State....Otherwise the state and religion would be aliens to each other - hostile, suspicious, and even unfriendly....The state may not establish a 'religion of secularism' in the sense of affirmatively opposing or showing hostility to religion, thus preferring those who believe in no religion over those who do believe.

What a man does is the real test of what a man is.

Who does not believe his first passion eternal?

Science can tell us what exists; but to compare the worths, both of what exists and of what does not exist, we must consult not science, but what Pascal calls our heart.

Who does not see that we are likely to ascertain the distinctive significance of religious melancholy and happiness, or of religious trances, far better by comparing them as conscientiously as we can with other varieties of melancholy, happiness, and trance, than by refusing to consider their place in any more general series, and treating them as if they were outside of nature's order altogether?

The first thing that intellect does with an object is to class it with something else.

There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.

a man does not cry because he is sad, he is sad because he cries

No man can make good during working hours who does the wrong thing outside of working hours.

Only a fool does not look to explain his mistakes.

Just because we cannot do everything for everyone does not mean we should do nothing for anyone.

Democracy does not have to be a bloodsport, it can be an honorable enterprise that advances the public interest.

A proud man is satisfied with his own good opinion, and does not seek to make converts to it.

If our hours were all serene, we might probably take almost as little note of them as the dial does of those that are clouded.

An orator can hardly get beyond commonplaces: if he does he gets beyond his hearers.

Ideals are very often formed in the effort to escape from the hard task of dealing with facts, which is the function of science and art. There is no process by which to reach an ideal. There are no tests by which to verify it. It is therefore impossible to frame a proposition about an ideal which can be proved or disproved. It follows that the use of ideals is to be strictly limited to proper cases, and that the attempt to use ideals in social discussion does not deserve serious consideration.

I don't like killing a girl," the Spaniard said. "God does it all the time; if it doesn't bother Him, don't let it worry you.

Futurists get to a certain age and, as one does, they suddenly recognize their own mortality.