43 quotes found
“You can't always choose which. Sometimes you have to BE which.”
“The obvious matters are more imperceptible today.”
“Its not the obviousness or the complexity of the things thats deftly deluding mankind. Its man himself.”
“I accept this award today with an abiding faith in America and an audacious faith in the future of mankind. I refuse to accept despair as the final response to the ambiguities of history. I refuse ...”
“There are no self-proclaimed villains, only regiments of self-proclaimed saints. Victorious historians rule where good or evil lies.”
“Because thats life, you know? Good and bad. You cant have one without the other. The bad brings out the good in us, and the good can be corrupted by the bad. Its always a struggleto fight for the g...”
“The many meanings of 'evolution' are frequently exploited by Darwinists to distract their critics. Eugenie Scott recommends: 'Define evolution as an issue of the history of the planet: as the way w...”
“CS Lewis may make difficult questions accessible. I don't think he makes answers 'easy. Debra Winger”
“The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements - as well as one's deepest failures - is a definite symptom of maturity.”
“At the present time there still exist many doctrines which choose to leave in the shadow certain troubling aspects of a too complex situation. But their attempt to lie to us is in vain. Cowardice d...”
“Perhaps we can conceive of the ironist as the fetishist's apprentice, reaching out for all readers, ensnaring them in a tangle of ambiguity, uncertainty and indecision from which there is no escape...”
“As long as there have been men and they have lived, they have all felt this tragic ambiguity of their condition, but as long as there have been philosophers and they have thought, most of them have...”
“We take unholy risks to prove we are what we cannot be. For instance, I am not even crazy.”
“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the an...”
“Detective-story writers give this thrill by exploiting the resources of the possible; however improbable the happenings in a detective story, they can and must be explained in terms that satisfy th...”
“Isnt life a collection of weird quizzes with no answers to half the questions?”
“Heroes don't exist. And if they did, I wouldn't be one of them.”
“The sign stopped me-- or rather, this text stopped me. Words are my profession; I seized these and demanded that they explain themselves, that they cease to be ambiguous.”
“…I’ve come to realize that the only truths that matter to me are the ones I don’t, and can’t, understand. What’s mysterious, ambiguous, inexplicable. What doesn’t fit into a story, what doesn’t hav...”
“It’s not the obviousness or the complexity of the things that’s deftly deluding mankind. It’s man himself.”
