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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 744d9cf | Love could be fractured and serve different purposes, and that intense love could be divided, between people just as easily as between moments of time. | Luke Davies | ||
| 5653193 | It was all about eyes, the truth. | Luke Davies | ||
| 6e458d8 | I couldn't tell you what was happening on the TV screen. My eyes saw the pictures, but could not register what was happening, especially since my eyes kept falling on Luke. I knew that he knew that I was watching him because he grinned and threw a cookie at me without taking his eyes off the screen. | luke | L.D. Davis | |
| 6a015d7 | What is love, in the beginning, if not this mapping out, this settling into the other's undulations? | Luke Davies | ||
| 1fbe22b | We seem to do little more than lurch between wanting and not wanting. Thus, the question naturally arises: Is there more to life than this? Might it be possible to feel much better (in every sense of better) than one tends to feel? Is it possible to find lasting fulfillment despite the inevitability of change? | Sam Harris | ||
| 5c1ee2c | None of these adventitious mental states are the real you. You are not controlling the storm, and you are not lost in it. You are the storm. | Sam Harris | ||
| fa268d9 | What one believes happens after death dictates much of what one believes about life, and this is why faith-based religion, in presuming to fill in the blanks in our knowledge of the hereafter, does such heavy lifting for those who fall under its power. A single proposition - you will not die - once believed, determines a response to life that would be otherwise unthinkable. | Sam Harris | ||
| 765c9a0 | Indeed, religion is as much a living spring of violence today as it was at any time in the past. The recent conflicts in Palestine (Jews v Muslims), the Balkans (Orthodox Serbians v Catholic Croatians; Orthodox Serbians v Bosnian and Albanian Muslims), Northern Ireland (Protestants v Catholics), Kashmir (Muslims v Hindus), Sudan (Muslims v Christians and animists), Nigeria (Muslims v Christians) and Iran and Iraq (Shia v Sunni) are merely a.. | Sam Harris | ||
| fc5c6a1 | While missionaries do many noble things at great risk to themselves, their dogmatism still spreads ignorance and death. | Sam Harris | ||
| 114425c | Imagine what it would be like for our descendants to experience the fall of civilization. Imagine failures of reasonableness so total that our largest bombs finally fall upon our largest cities in defense of our religious differences. What would it be like for the unlucky survivors of such a holocaust to look back upon the hurtling career of human stupidity that led them over the precipice? A view from the end of the world would surely find.. | Sam Harris | ||
| 3266ae5 | Nothing that a Christian and a Muslim can say to each other will render their beliefs mutually vulnerable to discourse, because the very tenets of their faith have immunized them against the power of conversation. Believing strongly, without evidence, they have kicked themselves loose of the world. It is therefore in the very nature of faith to serve as an impediment to further inquiry. | Sam Harris | ||
| 59307e6 | And yet, the fact that we are no longer killing people for heresy in the West suggests that bad ideas, however sacred, cannot survive the company of good ones forever. | Sam Harris | ||
| 7f4c7e3 | Many religious moderates have taken the apparent high road of pluralism, asserting the equal validity of all faiths, but in doing so they neglect to notice the irredeemably sectarian truth claims of each. | Sam Harris | ||
| f2b284b | There is now little question that how one uses one's attention, moment to moment, largely determines what kind of person one becomes. Our minds--and lives--are largely shaped by how we use them. | Sam Harris | ||
| bd22f9f | How is it that, in this one area of our lives [religion], we have convinced ourselves that our beliefs about the world can float entirely free of reason and evidence? | Sam Harris | ||
| abedc5c | a human mind is a wandering mind, and a wandering mind is an unhappy mind. | Sam Harris | ||
| cc151c2 | A wasteland of embarrassment and social upheaval can be neatly avoidedby following a single precept in life: Do not lie | Sam Harris | ||
| e304fa0 | Anyone who wants to understand the world should be open to new facts and new arguments, even on subjects where his or her views are very well established. Similarly, anyone truly interested in morality--in the principles of behavior that allow people to flourish--should be open to new evidence and new arguments that bear upon questions of happiness and suffering. Clearly, the chief enemy of open conversation is dogmatism in all its forms. D.. | Sam Harris | ||
| 51c8470 | Given the link between belief and action, it is clear that we can no more tolerate a diversity of religious beliefs than a diversity of beliefs about epidemiology and basic hygiene. | Sam Harris | ||
| bfab067 | We must find our way to a time when faith, without evidence, disgraces anyone who would claim it | Sam Harris | ||
| 61f5359 | Lies are the social equivalent of toxic waste: Everyone is potentially harmed by their spread. | Sam Harris | ||
| 19347ba | Clearly, it is time we learned to meet our emotional needs without embracing the preposterous. We must find ways to invoke the power of ritual and to mark those transitions in every human life that demand profundity-- birth, marriage, death--without lying to ourselves about the nature of reality. Only then will the practice of raising our children to believe that they are Christian, Muslim, or Jewish be widely recognized as the ludicrous ob.. | Sam Harris | ||
| 1fdc40a | Decisions, intentions, efforts, goals, willpower, etc., are causal states of the brain, leading to specific behaviors, and behaviors lead to outcomes in the world. Human choice, therefore, is as important as fanciers of free will believe. But the next choice you make will come out of the darkness of prior causes that you, the conscious witness of your experience, did not bring into being. | Sam Harris | ||
| 516ce17 | You can do what you decide to do--but you cannot decide what you will decide to do. | Sam Harris | ||
| c1c25ae | if you are thinking without knowing you are thinking, you are confused about who and what you are. | Sam Harris | ||
| 74501f2 | We might also wonder, in passing, which is more moral: helping people purely out of concern for their suffering, or helping them because you think the creator of the universe will reward you for it? | Sam Harris | ||
| 904d227 | smiles are the foundation of beauty. | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| 2d4e1d2 | I am glad," he said, "that I do not dwell in your country among such savage peoples. Here, in Caspak, men fight with men when they meet - men of different races - but their weapons are first for the slaying of beasts in the chase and defense. We do not fashion weapons solely for the killing of man as do your peoples. Your country must indeed be a savage country, from which you are fortunate to have escaped to the peace and security of Caspa.. | men society violence weapons | Edgar Rice Burroughs | |
| 867398e | Imagine, if you can, a huge grizzly with ten legs armed with mighty talons and an enormous froglike mouth splitting his head from ear to ear, exposing three rows of long, white tusks. Then endow this creature of your imagination with the agility and ferocity of a half-starved Bengal tiger and the strength of a span of bulls, and you will have some faint conception of Woola in action. | Edgar Rice Burroughs | ||
| ff83466 | You may think that you are insignificant in the great plan of God, but you are not. You are tremendously important to God--so much so that Jesus died for you, and the Holy Spirit lives in you. You may seem small in your own eyes, and this is good; because God resists the proud but gives grace to the humble. However, don't let your humility become sin by making you believe you can do nothing for God. God can use you to help Him accomplish Hi.. | Warren W. Wiersbe | ||
| 13c2868 | God doesn't want us to ignore the past; the past should be a rudder to guide us, not an anchor to hold us back. | Warren W. Wiersbe | ||
| c89566c | Desde o principio que nos nao temos feito outra cousa que contradizer as realidade, e aqui estamos, Que ira dizer o papa, Se eu o fosse, perdoe-me deus a estulta vaidade de pensar-me tal, mandaria por imediatamente em circulacao uma nova tese, a da morte adiada, Sem mais explicacoes, A igreja nunca se lhe pediu que explicasse fosse o que fosse, a nossa outra especialidade, alem da balistica, te sido neutralizar, pela fe, o espirito curioso | José Saramago | ||
| 4d3d5dc | m kn , kn yjb `lyh 'n ykwn | José Saramago | ||
| 831f6b7 | naqueles cinquenta e oito segundos de musica uma transpiracao ritmica e melodica de qualquer vida humana, corrente ou extraordinaria, pela sua tragica brevidade, pela sua intensidade desesperada, e tambem por causa daquele acorde final que era como um ponto em suspensao deixado no ar, no vago, em qualquer parte, como se, irremediavelmente, alguma cousa ainda tivesse ficado por dizer | José Saramago | ||
| 0ec4f27 | we are only ever pretending to ourselves, never to other people ... | José Saramago | ||
| 24d1435 | esperava sentir, quando aqui chegasse, quando tocasse estes ferros, um abalo na alma profunda, uma dilaceracao, um terramoto interior, como grandes cidades caindo silenciosamente porque la nao estamos... | José Saramago | ||
| b2cee26 | fm hw m`rwf 'nh syHdth ykwn bTryq@ m km lw 'nh qd Hdth,flntZr yw'dy l~ m hw 'kthr mn bTl lmfjat,nh ykhdr lnf`lt,fkl mntmnh 'w nkhshh nkwn qd `shnh khll tmnytn lh 'w khshytn mnh. | José Saramago | ||
| 5397572 | Deus ve nos coracoes e nao precisa de que alguem absolva em seu nome, e se os pecados forem tao grandes que nao devam passa sem castigo, este vira pelo caminho mais curto, querendo o mesmo Deus, ou serao julgados em lugar proprio,quando o fim dos tempos chegar, se, entretanto, as boas accoes nao compensarem por si mesmas as mas | José Saramago | ||
| e281118 | n lSwr lqdym@ tkhd`un kthyran, fhy twhmn b'nn 'Hyu fyh ,whdh Gyr SHyH , l'n lshkhS ldhy nnZr lyh fyh lm y`d mwjwdan | النفس الوجود | José Saramago | |
| fcd0aa7 | lfy'd@ mn 'stbdl lyqyn blshk . | José Saramago | ||
| d1c798d | nWa l`ysha wHydan blnsb@ l~ l'mzj@ lky'yb@, lhshW@ `mwman, wqlyl@ llywn@, `qbun shdyd lqsw@, lkn dhlk, wln`trf bh, `l~ jhdh, l ywlWd lmasy lmw'thr@ l ndran, masin mn lnw` ldhy tqsh`rWu lh l'bdn 'w trt`d lh lfry'S. m yHdth fy 'Glb l'Hyn, l~ drj@ lm t`d tdhsh ky'nan mn kn, hw 'n lns yqblwn bSbr 'n ysbrw b`ny@ 'qlW zwy `zlthm, km tshhd `l~ dhlk fy mD qryb 'mthl@ `m@, wn knt ktym@, bl wlty `araft fy Hltyn nhy@ s`yd@. | José Saramago | ||
| 5491453 | sykwn 'mr mr`b,`lm mly' bl`myn , shy' l yHtmlh l`ql | José Saramago | ||
| 56f0176 | Toda a gente quer salvar o Homem, ninguem quer saber dos homens. | homem humanidade | José Saramago | |
| 503aaf7 | Vamos la, tornou a dizer o velho da venda preta, vamos ao que estava decidido, ou e isso, ou ficamos condenados a uma morte lenta, Alguns morrerao mais depressa se formos, disse o primeiro cego, Quem vai morrer, esta ja morto e nao o sabe, Que temos de morrer, sabemo-lo desde que nascemos, Por isso, de uma certa maneira, e como se ja tivessemos nascido mortos. | morte | Saramago José |