Doe Quotes - Page 402

Ludwig von Mises referred to Ayn Rand as 'the most courageous man in America.' If that doesn't say it all about the economist's man-centric frame of reference, I don't know what does.

The market follows the artist. The artist does not follow the market.

We have a duty towards music; namely to invent it. ...Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it. For the act of invention implies the necessity of a lucky find and of achieving realization of this find. What we imagine does not necessarily take on concrete form and may remain in a state of virtuality; whereas invention is not conceivable apart from its actually being worked out.

When the Higher Man does something worthy of admiration, it is an evidence of his Mastership, not the object of it.

Know that the science of unveiling has no end to it, for it consists in the journey of the intellect in the stations of Majesty, Beauty, Sublimeness, Grandeur, and Holiness. . . . He to whom the mysteries of La ilaha illa'llah are revealed draws near to God, and his worship of God becomes sincere. He does not turn to anyone but to Him, nor does he have hope in or fear other than Him, nor does he see harm or benefit except as coming from Him. He abandons whosoever is not He and rids himself of inward and outward associationism (shirk).

Pleasure does not equal happiness; it's part of happiness.

That we do not comprehend or accept something does not invalidate its truth.

I don't regard James Bond precisely as a hero, but at least he does get on and do his duty, in an extremely corny way.

"You like music, Mr. Gurgeh?" Hamin asked, leaning over to the man. Gurgeh nodded. "Well, a little does no harm."

If a face like Ingrid Bergman's looks at you as though you're adorable, everybody does. You don't have to act very much.

Morality will be very difficult for the man who does not pray.

Now that I know that I am no wiser than anyone else, does this wisdom make me wiser?

If a man's religion does not affect his use of money, that man's religion is vain.

Well, I never been to HeavenBut I been to OklahomaWell, they tell me I was born thereBut I really don't rememberIn Oklahoma, not ArizonaWhat does it matter, what does it matter?

The meaning ... of a writer will be found not just in what he intends to say, or what he does literally say, but in the effect of his writing on living beings.

Politics is pointless if it does nothing to enhance the beauty of our lives.

When people talk about cash being king, it's not king if it just sits there and never does anything. There are times when cash buys more than other times, and this is one of the other times when it buys a fair amount more, so we use it.

I'm somebody who seems to stumble into things 10 or 20 years before the rest of the world does.

We don't have a revolution, and we don't have the time for evolution, where does it come from? It must come from some kind of shared experience that everybody agrees with.

Think about where does this stand in the experience continuum that you've been imagining, where the world's going to go.

How much on outward show does all depend, If virtues from within no lustre lend! Strip off th'externals M and Y, the rest Proves Majesty itself is but a Jest.

I am persuaded that foolish writers and foolish readers are created for each other; and that fortune provides readers as she does mates for ugly women.

Affectation hides three times as many virtues as charity does sins.

We put things in order - God does the rest. Lay an iron bar east and west, it is not magnetized. Lay it north and south and it is.

Deeds survive the doers.