176 quotes found
“Love without humility results in the inclination to act as everyone's parent, humility without love results in the need to be everyone's child, and love with humility results in the desire to be a ...”
“What I admire about the modern atheist is not at all his logic, but rather his gift of imagination. There will always be the cartoon versions of Christianity further perpetuated by the extremist at...”
“I treat my thoughts like an old person treats their valuables: I cannot for the life of me proceed to throwing them out.”
“I suspect that 'Kindness and Cruelty' and 'Mercy and Justice' all have secret affairs, as though they rendezvous only within certain sophisticated souls: those who hate being offensive, but love te...”
“To claim that one can never live a positive life with a negative mind is a very negative claim to make!”
“The complete recipe for imagination is absolute boredom.”
“Of all individuals, the hated, the shunned, and the peculiar are arguably most themselves. They wear no masks whatsoever in order to be accepted and liked; they do seem most guarded, but only by th...”
“If life is music, I sometimes feel as though I was born on the off-beat of the song, and I love it. As Christian numbers reportedly decrease in America, my love for Christ feels as though it increa...”
“As for the majority, it is not so much race as it is political affiliation that really divides it today. What was once an issue of physical difference is now one of intellectual difference. Men hav...”
“In a society where dirt sells, for every good story told as it is, you will hear the whole of that day's 10 bad stories sensationalized; although in reality, it could be that 100 good deeds happene...”
“The foundation of morality on the human sentiments of what is acceptable behavior versus repulsive behavior has always made morals susceptible to change. Much of what was repulsive 100 years ago is...”
“A thief is one who insists on sharing his victimhood.”
“If only we were all better educated. If then, higher education would at last be a journey for skill and knowledge rather than for power and status.”
“Power without compassion is like a giant that blocks the sunlight.”
“This is almost always the case: A piece of art receives its f(r)ame when found offensive.”
“Where everyone wants to be a leader, it makes one a follower to want to be a leader, and a leader to know what to follow.”
“Few endeavors, if any at all, I find to be inherently mature or inherently immature. Maturity is neither defined by one's particular preferences nor by one's particular activities; rather, it is de...”
“One either cares what others think about him, or cares what others think he thinks about them. If you want to find someone who doesn't care in the slightest what anyone thinks, try a lunatic asylum.”
“Confirmation bias is the most effective way to go on living a lie.”
“The hardest chore to do, and to do right, is to think. Why do you think the common man would choose labor, partially, as a distraction from his own thoughts? It is because that level of stress, he ...”
