Doe Quotes - Page 128

Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker?

The doer alone learneth.

He turns all of his injuries into strengths, that which does not kill him makes him stronger, he is superman.

Belief does not change what is.

A soul that is reluctant to share does not as a rule have much of its own. Miserliness is here a symptom of meagerness.

Science is analytical, descriptive, informative. Man does not live by bread alone, but by science he attempts to do so. Hence the deadliness of all that is purely scientific.

Every man is received in heaven who receives heaven in himself while in the world, and he is excluded who does not.

My God! Middle Earth does exist!

The AI does not hate you, nor does it love you, but you are made out of atoms which it can use for something else.

When you are older, you will learn that the first and foremost thing which any ordinary person does is nothing.

There is not one thing that music does which does not say something about how a person should organize himself, too.

We are all blind until we see That in the human plan Nothing is worth the making If it does not make the man. Why build these cities glorious If man unbuilded goes? We build the world in vain Unless the builders also grow.

I am a person before I am anything else. I never say I am a writer. I never say I am an artist...I am a person who does those things.

We perceive nature through the senses, which give us images of forms of colour, sounds etc. A form which exists only in relation to another form on its own, it does not exist.

I hold that a long poem does not exist. I maintain that the phrase, "a long poem," is simply a flat contradiction in terms.

When you are fully conscious, drama does not come into your life anymore.

I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.

The kind of intelligence a genius has is a different sort of intelligence. The thinking of a genius does not proceed logically. It leaps with great ellipses. It pulls knowledge from God knows where.

Everything a baptized person does each day should be directly or indirectly related to the corporal and spiritual works of mercy.

Even as fog continues to lie in the valleys, so does ancient sin cling to the low places, the depressions in the world consciousness.

It does not seem, however, that organic chemists were much worried about barriers to rotation in organic molecules in general at that time because there was no technique available to demonstrate the phenomenon experimentally.

There's a statue of Jimmy Stewart in the Hollywood Wax Museum, and the statue talks better than he does.

Within seconds thoughts become words that slip off our tongue and into the world. Pausing before we speak may seem cumbersome, but it allows us to decide: Is this helpful? Does this need to be said now? What is the best way to say this?

What does it mean, exactly, for a given system to be a "neural correlate of consciousness"?

Why should physical processing give rise to a rich inner life at all? It seems objectively unreasonable that it should, and yet it does.