23 quotes found
“Pride makes us long for a solution to things a solution, a purpose, a final cause; but the better telescopes become, the more stars appear.”
“Nothing is ever certain.”
“It's partly true, too, but it isn't all true. People always think something's all true.”
“I think all of us are looking for that which does not admit of bullshit . . . If you tell me you can bench press 450, hell, we'll load up the bar and put you under it. Either you can do it or you c...”
“In this treacherous worldNothing is the truth nor a lie.Everything depends on the colorOf the crystal through which one sees it”
“Beware: open-mindedness will often say, 'Everything is permissible except a sharp opinion.”
“Questions of absolute good and evil are much better not opened to public debate these days, when so few people are sure of their absolutes”
“(He) mourned mankind, and the blindness of men, who thought that the Kosmos had rules and limits that would shelter them from their own freedom. There were no shelters. There were no final purposes...”
“We have also set up for them an edifying project for a continuous mitigation of their own tyranny, ascribing to them an unshakeable faith in the triumph of virtue, as well as in the moral justifica...”
“I would rather have strong enemies than a world of passive individualists. In a world of passive individualists nothing seems worth anything simply because nobody stands for anything. That world ha...”
“A true prophet would rather be believed false by many but actually true than believed true by many but actually false.”
“Creativity abides no absolutes.”
“The dominant philosophy in todays public university is called relativism, which categorically denies the existence of truth or moral absolutes. Those who are foolish enough to believe in such archa...”
“True inner righteousness does not judge according to custom but by the measure of the most perfect law of God Almighty by which the mores of various places and times were adapted to those places an...”
“Never say never, he said urgently, rolling back on top of her and using all of his unusually heavy mass to press her deep into the cocoon of her little girl bed. The gods love to toy with people wh...”
“Pride makes us long for a solution to things – a solution, a purpose, a final cause; but the better telescopes become, the more stars appear.”
