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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 0068211 | Tolerance is not a virtue | Jason King Godwise | ||
| 702e2ae | You have seven writers in your basement?" Donald nods, signing, "They like it here. There's a poet, a couple of novelists, an opera librettist, an essay writer . . . . They don't usually make much trouble." | fiction writing susan-wiggs hotel-angeline writers | Susan Wiggs | |
| 7377516 | Wishful thinking is a powerful force. | Susan Wiggs | ||
| 580a79f | An event in the present evokes past sensations. But science couldn't explain how a foolish heart had the power to overrule common sense. | heart events | Susan Wiggs | |
| 742c338 | Insults sting but a little when they stem from a man's ignorance. | Susan Wiggs | ||
| c3f86bc | It isn't fair, but maybe that's the whole point. Fairness has no part in real life, and she took that lesson away from the Hotel Angeline with her. | life-lessons life mystery fairness | Susan Wiggs | |
| b811be2 | Some people make tunes, but it is lines that run like moving messages through my head. Whatever else I am saying and doing often has no bearing on this inner, verbal life. | words poetry | Susan Hill | |
| bb6c954 | There once was a hero who flew too close to the sun. His wings of wax fell apart and he plummeted to the earth. | Hiromu Arakawa | ||
| 9b164df | Fiction brings salvation to characters in stories that would otherwise have no salvation at all. | Hiromu Arakawa | ||
| cf5d19d | Mere children, ha!" said Jane. "I say we tie up the knave and then discuss his fate." Since everyone thought this a good idea, Batty and Hound donated Jeffrey's neckties, and soon Bug Man, aka Sock or Spock, aka Norman Birnbaum, was bound hand and foot. Jane, Batty, and Hound then took a few minutes to be Aztec priests calling for blood, until Rosalind quieted them down. Norman was slime, but that was no reason to terrify him. Then came a .. | sisters | Jeanne Birdsall | |
| 9f071ab | if I did not love death my suffering my desire for you would kill me your absence your distress make me nauseous it's time for me to love death it's time to bite its hands | Georges Bataille | ||
| 9825df7 | The art teacher's scarlet book was called Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille. 'As the title suggests,' Mr Dunwoody saw the book'd caught my attention, 'it's about the history of opticians. What are you about? | literature | David Mitchell | |
| e4e56e3 | I entered into this darkness where, ever since, I plunge deeper every hour and lose myself a little more. | Georges Bataille | ||
| 33f7f0e | We are all haunted by the lost perfection of the ego that contained everything, and we measure ourselves and our lovers against this standard. We search for a replica in external satisfactions, in food, comfort, sex, or success, but gradually learn, through the process of sublimation, that the best approximation of that lost feeling comes from creative acts that evoke states of being in which self-consciousness is temporarily relinquished. .. | Mark Epstein | ||
| 0f4d801 | We reduce, concretize, or substantialize experiences or feelings, which are, in their very nature, fleeting or evanescent. In so doing, we define ourselves by our moods and by our thoughts. We do not just let ourselves be happy or sad, for instance; we must become a happy person or a sad one. This is the chronic tendency of the ignorant or deluded mind, to make "things" out of that which is no thing." | Mark Epstein | ||
| 8f6cfa9 | Stillness does not mean the elimination of disturbances as much as a different way of viewing them. | Mark Epstein | ||
| d77aed4 | O]ur percept is an elaborate computer model in the brain, constructed on the basis of information coming from [the environment], but transformed in the head into a form in which that information can be used. Wavelength differences in the light out there become coded as 'colour' differences in the computer model in the head. Shape and other attributes are encoded in the same kind of way, encoded into a form that is convenient to handle. The .. | intelligence qualia evolutionary-psychology consciousness | Richard Dawkins | |
| de7dfa7 | There is yet another class that, having found that their own religion not only prevents free thinking but that some of its philosophies are also against some basic social, economic and scientific concepts of life as required by the progressive society, comes to the illogical conclusion that all religions similarly thwart the growth of progressive societies... Such people fall easy prey to materialism and denounce all religions without havin.. | religion atheists dawkins richard-dawkins | Mohammed Ali Muhiyaddin | |
| 1a4bd73 | Areas where there is a lack of data, or a lack of understanding, are automatically assumed to belong, by default, to God. | Richard Dawkins | ||
| a0e8a25 | Of course they don't function as gills, but five-week human embryos can be regarded as little pink fishes, with gills. | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 496ad16 | Esli kembridzhskii teolog -- khristianin standartnogo tolka, to sam on, po vsei vidimosti, verit v tu ili inuiu kombinatsiiu sleduiushchikh utverzhdenii: * V praotecheskie vremena devstvennitsa rodila syna bez vmeshatel'stva muzhchiny. * Etot syn, ne imevshii biologicheskogo ottsa, navestil usopshego druga po imeni Lazar', ot kotorogo uzhe iskhodil trupnyi zapakh, i tot nezamedlitel'no ozhil. * Etot zhe ne imeiushchii ottsa chelovek vernuls.. | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 215fef6 | The problem with ID, of course, is that it leaves open the possibility that the intelligence behind nature may have a moral interest in us, having communicated already with humanity in the past, and might try to boss you around in your private affairs. | responsibility science aliens extraterrestrials moral-responsibility multiple-universe multiple-universes new-scientist dawkins multiverse richard-dawkins judgement id intelligent-design theism | David Klinghoffer | |
| ae1ff60 | Os livros de fisica podem ser complicados, mas eles, assim como os carros e os computadores, sao produtos de objetos biologicos - cerebros humanos. Os objetos e os fenomenos que um livro de fisica descreve sao mais simples que uma unica celula do corpo de seu autor. E o autor consiste em trilhoes de celulas, muitas delas diferentes umas das outras, organizadas com arquitetura intrincada e engenharia de precisao para formar uma maquina capaz.. | science | Richard Dawkins | |
| 8381e70 | We are built as gene machines and cultured as meme machines, but we have the power to turn against our creators. We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.* 12 | Richard Dawkins | ||
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philosophy medicine | Richard Dawkins | |
| f8ecbe0 | Next to the true beauty and magic of the real world, supernatural spells and stage tricks seem cheap and tawdry by comparison. The magic of reality is neither supernatural nor a trick, but - quite simply - wonderful. Wonderful, and real. Wonderful because real. | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 3c0787b | Pantheism is sexed-up atheism. Deism is watered-down theism. | humorous deism pantheism theism | Richard Dawkins | |
| 305f17d | Pat Robertson would be harmless comedy, were he less typical of those who today hold power and influence in the United States. | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 13509ee | The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next. --RALPH WALDO EMERSON | Richard Dawkins | ||
| db16927 | Natural selection is a beguiling counterfeiter of deliberate purpose. | Richard Dawkins | ||
| b83ed10 | The fact that we slowly apprehend our world, rather than suddenly discover it, should not subtract from its wonder. | Richard Dawkins | ||
| e37a3e6 | In a universe of electrons and selfish genes, blind physical forces and genetic replication, some people are going to get hurt, other people are going to get lucky, and you won't find any rhyme or reason in it, nor any justice. The universe that we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but pitiless indifference. | universe | Richard Dawkins | |
| d8a5d67 | When we look at a solid lump of iron or rock, we are 'really' looking at what is almost entirely empty space. It looks and feels solid and opaque because our sensory systems and brains find it convenient to treat it as solid and opaque. It is convenient for the brain to represent a rock as solid because we can't walk through it. 'Solid' is our way of experiencing things that we can't walk through or fall throug, because of the electromagnet.. | science brain | Richard Dawkins | |
| 358d24f | With only a little imagination we can see the gene as sitting at the centre of a radiating web of extended phenotypic power. | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 3c79791 | The new atheists are unwitting disciples of Comte's Positivist philosophy. It seems self-evident to them that religion is a primitive sort of science. But this is itself a primitive view, and a remark made by Wittgenstein about Frazer applies equally to Richard Dawkins and his followers: 'Frazer is much more savage than most of his savages ... His explanations of primitive practices are much cruder than the meaning of these practices themse.. | John N. Gray | ||
| e130563 | Robert M. Pirsig, author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: 'When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called Religion. | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 4ae9678 | Pantheists don't believe in a supernatural God at all, but use the word God as a non-supernatural synonym for Nature, or for the Universe, or for the lawfulness that governs its workings. Deists differ from theists in that their God does not answer prayers, is not interested in sins or confessions, does not read our thoughts and does not intervene with capricious miracles. Deists differ from pantheists in that the deist God is some kind of .. | Richard Dawkins | ||
| b2b9494 | The great unmentionable evil at the center of our culture is monotheism. From a barbaric Bronze Age text known as the Old Testament, three anti-human religions have evolved--Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. These are sky-god religions. They are, literally, patriarchal--God is the Omnipotent Father--hence the loathing of women for 2,000 years in those countries afflicted by the sky-god and his earthly male delegates. --GORE VIDAL | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 19c018c | hrqdr hm khh `mrmn khwth bshd, gr thnyhy z an r hdr dhym y Srf glyh z yn khnym khh zndgy `bth w byHSl st y gr (mnnd khwdkhn) bgwyym khh zndgy khsthkhnndh st, dshnm drshty bh trylywnh nfry ddhym khh hrgz bkht zystn r nyftnd. | Richard Dawkins | ||
| 7e17b09 | most of us happily disavow fairies, astrology and the Flying Spaghetti Monster, without first immersing ourselves in books of Pastafarian theology etc. | religion pz-myers logical-fallacy theology | Richard Dawkins | |
| 136c123 | What if God is a scientist who regards honest seeking after truth as the supreme virtue? | Richard Dawkins | ||
| b397bc4 | She was totally without artifice. If she had nothing to say, she said nothing. If she spoke, or aired an opinion, it was deliberate, considered, intelligent. She did not seem to know the meaning of small talk, and while others chatted, over meals or an evening drink, she was always attentive, but often silent. Her relationships, however, were deeply affectionate and caring. | Rosamunde Pilcher | ||
| 995879e | The only way to make disasters bearable is to laugh about them. | Rosamunde Pilcher | ||
| fb7d7d3 | Here's the thing about miscarriage. They are painful, they are horrific, and they are very, very common. There are no funerals for Those Who Might Have Been, leaving parents to mourn their loss in strange and unexpected ways. But while a miscarriage may feel like the end of the world... it's actually just the beginning of a new one. | Brian K. Vaughan |