529 quotes found
“Рассмотрим представление о Боге. Мы не знаем, как оно возникло в мимофонде. Возможно, оно возникало многократно путем независимых «мутаций». Во всяком случае это очень старая идея. Как она реплицир...”
“We are survival machines – robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. This is a truth which still fills me with astonishment.”
“Many people think that the theory of the selfish gene says that “animals try to spread their genes.” That misstates the facts and it misstates the theory. Animals, including most people, know nothi...”
“This is only a work of fiction , The Truth as always will be far stranger”
“It's survival of the hang-in-there's, or the made-the-cuts, or the just good-enoughs.”
“Exactly. That's what's been happening here for the past ten thousand years: You've been doing what you damn well please with the world. And of course you mean to go right on doing what you damn wel...”
“The question “What is man?” is probably the most profound that can be asked by man. It has always been central to any system of philosophy or theology…. The point I want to make now is that all att...”
“Homosexuality is nature’s way of keeping the population in check.”
“Husbands are the leftovers of a stew called love –she thought—, and with hair on their faces.”
“Does not… the ear of Handel predict the witchcraft of harmonic sound?”
“The Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning.”
“She captured the spot of my world’s centre and sent me in elliptic rings about it, causing the ground beneath me to vanish and the breath of my lungs to disperse. I was a rock locked in helpless or...”
“If I could make people feel, just for a day or an hour, what it’s like to love with infiniteness, then they would be animals no longer, but some greater creature, deserving of that title human. I’v...”
“I am inclined to trust you. You shouldn’t be like that with another man, not ever; but I can’t help it. I felt it strongly from the instant I heard your voice; and though I thought momentarily that...”
“How would it alter Juliet’s love perception to learn the sea is but a rounded jug of water? Would her sensuous analogy turned simple simile unveil to her the limits of herself? Or would she forget ...”
“The basic urge toward mysticism is never, in the unaltered man, clear enough to be recognized for what it is.”
“To bind one free man with love is better than to release a thousand slaves.”
“Saying of the ProphetUnderstandingSpeak to everyone in accordance with his degree of understanding.”
“Patience is a garment which has never worn out.”
“None should say: ‘I can trust,’ or ‘I cannot trust’ until he is master of the option, of trusting or not trusting.”
