529 quotes found
“Out of the choked Devonian waters emerged sight and sound and the music that rolls invisible through the composer's brain. They are there still in the ooze along the tideline, though no one notices...”
“I think the discomfort that some people feel in going to the monkey cages at the zoo is a warning sign.”
“The human animal began as a mere wriggling thing in the ancient seas, struggling out onto land with many regrets. That is what brings us so full of longing to the sea.”
“...evolution is not a religious tenet, to which one swears allegiance or belief as a matter of faith.. It is a factual reality of the empirical world. Just as one would not say 'I believe in gravit...”
“I take leave to contradict those who say that salvation is an evolution! All that ever can be evolved out of the sinful heart of man is sin-and nothing else! Salvation is the free gift of God, by J...”
“One reason might be that if I hadn't tripped, I'd have been hamburger.When this sort of thing occurs, people often say that there was some power greater than themselves at work. This sounds reasona...”
“The future will be different from how they have told us”
“Are we being good ancestors?”
“We are not at the pinnacle of our power, of our existence. We have scrambled to the top of an ant-hill at the bottom of the worlds highest mountain. We have long way still to climb. - The Blue Moun...”
“Our objective is to achieve, by the understanding of the Origin, the Knowledge which comes through experience.”
“Superior experience and knowledge will be made available to a man or woman in exact accordance with his worth, capacity and earning of it”
“Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.”
“Thinking is computation, I claim, but that does not mean that the computer is a good metaphor for the mind. The mind is a set of modules, but the modules are not encapsulated boxes or circumscribed...”
“The object of Sufi preparatory study, however, being to illustrate, expose and out-manoeuvre superficial ambition.”
“I dont feel that my faith is threatened by evolution at all. If I were convinced of Darwinian evolution some day, I would just become a Theistic Evolutionist like the guys at BioLogos.”
“People who cannot trust are themselves not trustworthy, and therefore cannot be entrusted with important things.”
“Patience is the food of understanding.”
“Remember that greed includes greed for being not greedy.”
“There is a saying that, according to what a person's mentality is, even an angel may seem to him to have a devil's face.”
“The Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning.”
