Philosophical Quotes - Page 40

• Nor is it strange That after changes upon changes, we are more or less the same

  Paul Simon

  Strange

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• It has been said that to write is to live forever. The man who said that is dead.

  Tina Fey

  Writing, Men, Forever

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• Why'd you have to say that there's always someone who can do it better than I can And don't you think that I know that walkin' on water won't make me a miracle man

  Elvis Costello

  Men, Thinking, Water

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• Like any dealer he was watching for the card
  that is so high and wild
  he'll never need to deal another.
  He was just some Joseph looking for a manger.

  Leonard Cohen

  Needs, Cards, Deals

  "Song: 'The Stranger Song'". 1967.

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• You swore you'd never compromise With the mystery tramp, but now you realise He's not selling any alibis As you stare into the vacuum of his eyes And say, do you want to make a deal How does it feel

  Bob Dylan

  Eye, Want, Vacuums

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• Their lives ran in circles so small They thought they'd seen it all

  Michelle Shocked

  Circles, Ran

  Song: Memories of East Texas

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• Of course, if you photograph the behavior of women and men at a particular time in history, in a particular situation, you will capture differences. But the error lies in inferring that a snapshot is a lasting picture. What women and men do at a moment in time tells us nothing about what women and men are in some unvarying sense - or about what they can be.

  Carol Tavris

  Lying, Men, Differences

  Carol Tavris (1993). “Mismeasure of Woman: Why Women are Not the Better Sex, the Inferior Sex, or the Opposite Sex”, Touchstone

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• In the next few galactic seconds, the fate of the universe will be decided. Life - the ultimate experiment - will either explode into space, and engulf the star-clouds in a fire storm of children, trees, and butterfly wings; or Life will fail, fizzle, and gutter out, leaving the universe shrouded forever in impenetrable blankness, devoid of hope.

  Marshall Savage

  Stars, Children, Butterfly

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• But Mousie, thou art no thy lane In proving foresight may be vain The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men Gang aft agley An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain For promis'd joy!

  Robert Burns

  Art, Pain, Grief

  Robert Burns (2009). “The Best Laid Schemes: Selected Poetry and Prose of Robert Burns”, p.48, Princeton University Press

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• Within weeks of our premiere, it became obvious that Leonard [Nimoy] and the character of Spock were becoming something of a national phenomenon. ... And to be unflatteringly frank, it bugged me. ... [Then, Gene Roddenberry] said to me the wisest thing he could possibly have uttered. He said, `Don't ever fear having good and popular people around you, because they can only enhance your own performance. The more you can play to these people, the better the show.'

  William Shatner

  Character, Play, People

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• More and more people are becoming unable to accept traditional [religious] beliefs. If they think that, apart from these beliefs, there is no reason for kindly behaviour, the results may be needlessly unfortunate. That is why it is important to show that no supernatural reasons are needed to make [people] kind and to prove that only through kindness can the human race achieve happiness.

  Bertrand Russell

  Religious, Kindness, Thinking

  Bertrand Russell, John G. Slater, Peter Köllner (1997). “Last Philosophical Testament: 1943-68”, p.88, Psychology Press

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• Put a chair against the door, and turn the lights down low Write a letter to yourself, no one will ever know

  Jann Arden

  Writing, Doors, Light

  Song: Could I Be Your Girl?, Album: Living Under June, 1994

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• Think I'll flip a coin, I'm a winner either way Mmmmmm, I feel lucky today

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Thinking, Today, Way

  Song: I Feel Lucky, 1992

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• The world is not the most pleasant place. Eventually, your parents leave you and nobody is going to go out of their way to protect you unconditionally. You need to learn to stand up for yourself and what you believe and sometimes, pardon my language, kick some ass.

  Queen Elizabeth II

  Motivation, Believe, Parent

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• You just listen to your own heart. That is your only teacher.

  Rajneesh

  Teacher, Heart, Just Listen

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• My love is unconditional. Your action is irrelevant.

  Rajneesh

  Love Is, Action, Unconditional

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• There are no infidels anywhere but on earth: there are none in heaven, and there are none in hell. Atheism is a strange thing. Even the devils never fell into that vice, for the devils believe and tremble. And there are some of the devil's children that have gone beyond their father in sin, but how will it look when they are for ever lost?

  Charles Spurgeon

  Children, Father, Believe

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• The main problem with those who deny the existence of God is not intellectual. It is not because of insufficient information, or that God's manifestation of himself in nature has been obscured. The atheists' problem is not that they cannot know God, rather it is they do not want to know him. Man's problem with the existence of God is not an intellectual problem; it is a moral problem." For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men - Rom. 1:18"

  R. C. Sproul

  Atheist, Men, Wrath

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• I have infinite knowledge that there is no being in existence with infinite knowledge

  Ravi Zacharias

  Atheist, Atheism, Infinite

  Ravi Zacharias (2004). “The Real Face of Atheism”, p.36, Baker Books

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• Atheists don't hate fairies, leprechauns, or unicorns because they don't exist. It is impossible to hate something that doesn't exist. Atheists - like the painting experts hated the painter - hate God because He does exist.

  Ray Comfort

  Atheist, Hate, Atheism

  "You Can Lead an Atheist to Evidence, But You Can't Make Him Think: Answers to Questions from Angry Skeptics". Book by Ray Comfort, 2009.

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• It is quality rather than quantity that matters.

  Seneca the Younger

  Excellence, Quality, Matter

  "Moral Letters to Lucilius". Book by Lucius Annaeus Seneca, transl. Richard Mott Gummere, Letter XLV: On sophistical argumentation, line 1, 1920.

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• There is moderation in everything.

  Horace

  Moderation

  Satires bk. 1, no. 1, l. 106

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• ...and our spirits rushed together at the touching of the lips.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Touching, Together, Lips

  'Locksley Hall' (1842) l. 38

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• Everything flows and nothing stays.

  Homer

  Spiritual, Flow

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• Tis a cruelty to load a fallen man.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Cruelty, Fallen

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