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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 3a07d5b | Life must be lived forwards but can only be understood backwards." --Kierkegaard" | Oliver Sacks | ||
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| e016ade | No matter how honest scientists think they are, they are still influenced by various unconscious assumptions that prevent them from attaining true objectivity. Expressed in a sentence, Fort's principle goes something like this: People with a psychological need to believe in marvels are no more prejudiced and gullible than people with a psychological need not to believe in marvels. | Colin Wilson | ||
| fd1cd15 | Simple perception then is a fallacy. Besides the conscious prejudices that we are aware of imposing on the world, there are a thousand subconscious prejudices that we assume to be actuality. | Colin Wilson | ||
| b98c5bc | Human intelligence is a function of man's evolutionary urge; the scientist and the philosopher hunger for truth because they are tired of being merely human. | Colin Wilson | ||
| 0d55d3e | The only true non-conformists are in the asylums; the only radically free spirits are in the death house awaiting the chair. We live by patterns. | Herman Wouk | ||
| 355083b | About the nicest thing God ever invented was alcohol. He's proud of it, too. The Bible's full of kind remarks about booze. | Herman Wouk | ||
| f04cac7 | Shall we go?' he murmured, perhaps regretting his decision to show me his army of plastic cartoon figurines. | journalism psychiatry psychology | Jon Ronson | |
| efa161c | I favour humans over ideology, but right now the ideologues are winning, and they're creating a stage for constant artificial high dramas, where everyone is either a magnificent hero or a sickening villain. We can lead good, ethical lives, but some bad phraseology in a Tweet can overwhelm it all - even though we know that's not how we should define our fellow humans. What's true about our fellow humans is that we are clever and stupid. We a.. | shaming social-media | Jon Ronson | |
| de354a8 | A strange thing happens when you interview a robot. You feel an urge to be profound: to ask profound questions. I suppose it's an inter-species thing. Although if it is I wonder why I never try and be profound around my dog. 'What does electricity taste like?' I ask. 'Like a planet around a star,' Bina48 replies. Which is either extraordinary or meaningless - I'm not sure which | meaningless profound robots | Jon Ronson | |
| 5d57368 | Ask a victim to look at the positive things and she'll say, 'I can't. My eyes are swollen, | Jon Ronson | ||
| 012e5c6 | Serial killers ruin families,' shrugged Bob. 'Corporate and political and religious psychopaths ruin economies. They ruin societies. | Jon Ronson | ||
| ff52ce3 | Even when lightning flashes inside them [clouds], we say they are only clouds and turn our attention to the next meal, next pain, next breath, the next page. This is how we go on. | fear inevitable life | Sidney Sheldon | |
| cd1ab39 | If you believe in what you are doing, then you must fight for it. You must stay. Do not let anyone frighten you away. | Sidney Sheldon | ||
| 930afe5 | It was like when we were little kids and we played games on the ivy-covered hillside in the backyard. We were warriors and wizards and angels and high elves and that was our reality. If someone said, Isn't it cute, look at them playing, we would have smiled back, humoring them, but it wasn't playing. It was transformation. It was our own world. Our own rules. | childhood children fantasies fantastic fantasy game games playing playing-games pretend pretending reality | Francesca Lia Block | |
| 142e559 | She knew they were all afraid. But love and disease are both like electricity, Weetzie thought. They are always there -- you can't see or smell or hear, touch or taste them, but you know they are there like a current in the air. We can choose, Weetzie thought, we can choose to plug into the love current instead. | electricity love | Francesca Lia Block | |
| ba2d275 | Think about the word destroy. Do you know what it is? De-story. Destroy. Destory. You see. And restore. That's re-story. Do you know that only two things have been proven to help survivors of the Holocaust? Massage is one. Telling their story is another. Being touched and touching. Telling your story is touching. It sets you free. | storytelling | Francesca Lia Block | |
| 68a31db | Grief produces an abundant energy that must find a way to burn itself up. And that is the fundamental problem, one that can take a lifetime to exhaust. | bosnia fools-rush-in sarajevo schaffner-press | Bill Carter | |
| e189c49 | none of us will have forgotten that lesson. What matters is not the facts but how you discover and think about them: education in the true sense, very different from today's assessment-mad exam culture. | exam hydra science | Richard Dawkins | |
| 9993a4f | Imagine, with John Lennon, a world with no religion. Imagine no suicide bombers, no 9/11, no 7/7, no Crusades, no witch-hunts, no Gunpowder Plot, no Indian partition, no Israeli/Palestinian wars, no Serb/Croat/Muslim massacres, no persecution of Jews as 'Christ-killers', no Northern Ireland 'troubles', no 'honour killings', no shiny-suited bouffant-haired televangelists fleecing gullible people of their money ('God wants you to give till it.. | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 222680b | A consequentialist or utilitarian is likely to approach the abortion question in a very different way, by trying to weigh up suffering. Does the embryo suffer? (Presumably not if it is aborted before it has a nervous system; and even if it is old enough to have a nervous system it surely suffers less than, say, an adult cow in a slaughterhouse.) Does the pregnant woman, or her family, suffer if she does not have an abortion? Very possibly s.. | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 1a71071 | The Bible may be an arresting and | good religion sicence | Richard Dawkins | |
| d0043a1 | It is hard to believe that this simple truth is not understood by those leaders who forbid their followers to use effective contraceptive methods. They express a preference for 'natural' methods of population limitation, and a natural method is exactly what they are going to get. It is called starvation. | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 37a625c | The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means. | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 0269194 | If a curiously selective plague came along and killed all people of intermediate height, 'tall' and 'short' would come to have just as precise a meaning as 'bird' or 'mammal'. The same is true of human ethics and law. Our legal and moral systems are deeply species-bound. The director of a zoo is legally entitled to 'put down' a chimpanzee that is surplus to requirements, while any suggestion that he might 'put down' a redundant keeper or ti.. | animal-law ethics nonhuman-animal nonhuman-rights species-ethics speciesism taxonomy | Richard Dawkins | |
| cffe98a | Wild animals almost never die of old age: starvation, disease, or predators catch up with them long before they become really senile. Until recently this was true of man too. Most animals die in childhood, many never get beyond the egg stage. Starvation and other causes of death are the ultimate reasons why populations cannot increase indefinitely. | Richard Dawkins | ||
| fb77ec7 | I don't like futons. They can't commit. I'm a bed! I'm a couch! I'm a bed! I'm a couch! | Jennifer Weiner | ||
| 6985bf7 | Hell is an Eagles game where the bleachers are always freezing, the team is always loosing, and my family is insane | Jennifer Weiner | ||
| 4957b2d | The real crisis of worship today is not that the preaching is paltry or that it's too drafty in church. It is that people have no sense of the presence of God, and if they have no sense of His presence, how can they be moved to express the deepest feelings of their souls to honor, revere, worship, and glorify God? | gospel worship | R.C. Sproul | |
| 17772fb | God's sovereign will is not at the whim and mercy of our person and individual responses to it. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 0bd0e3c | The result of your not listening to your experience is that you keep re-living it, over and over again. | Neale Donald Walsch | ||
| cbcf9c6 | When fear is taken from you, all else can be taken from you and you will not be angry. | Neale Donald Walsch | ||
| 928e8e9 | Government is the perfect portrayer of the accuracy of the axiom that if you lie big enough, long enough, the lie becomes the "truth." | Neale Donald Walsch | ||
| 7299ed1 | My brand of persuasion doesn't work well at a distance. | Stephanie Laurens | ||
| 4df0b3a | Shaw, we're going to die, aren't we? | David Baldacci | ||
| 4022d95 | IF U WANT TO KICK THE TIGER ASS BECAREFULL OF HIS TEETH FIRST. | David Baldacci | ||
| 50fce41 | But if you don't know where you want to go, I suppose any path will get you there. | David Baldacci | ||
| 6129c6f | It's the hardest thing in the world to put yourself in someone else's place, try to really feel what they feel, figure out why they do the things they do. Especially when it's easier to stick a label on something. Or someone. | life-lesson | David Baldacci | |
| ca404f2 | See, that why I ain't go to church. Figger I got me a church wherever I be. Want'a talk to God, well I say, 'howdy-howdy, God,' and we jaw fer a bit.' - Jimmy 'Diamond' Skinner | wish-you-well | David Baldacci | |
| 4c277db | How much do they be paying you?" he asked mellowly. "The usual salary. A little more than they think I'm worth and a little less than I think I'm worth." | Betty Smith | ||
| 0ac9953 | You'll never raise that one,' they told her. 'Her color ain't good. If the good Lord takes her, it will be for the best.'... Don't say that,' Katie held her baby tightly. 'It's not better to die. Who wants to die? Everything struggles to live. Look at that tree growing up there out of that grating. It gets no sun, and water only when it rains. It's grwoing out of sour earth. And it's strong because its hard struggle to live is making it str.. | Betty Smith | ||
| 962d71d | In the future, when something comes up, you tell exactly how it happened but write down for yourself the way you think it happened. Tell the truth and write the story. | Betty Smith | ||
| baf6582 | Well, there's a little bit of man in every woman and a little bit of woman in every man. | Betty Smith | ||
| 227f55f | What is the difference between happiness and contentment?" "Well, happy is like when somebody gives you a big hunk of something wonderful and it's too big to hold. So you pull off a piece from time to time to hold in your hand. that's being contented. anyway, that's the way i look at it." | Betty Smith |