Doe Quotes - Page 143

Does one require proof of one's own being? Only remain aware of yourself and all else will be known.

Everybody knows what celebration is. I have never come across a person who does not know what celebration is. Just rejoicing in your being, just rejoicing in this moment, this tremendous universe. You had not asked for it, you have simply been given a universe which is infinite and eternal. You have not asked and you have been given a consciousness which is eternal, which can become festive. If you allow it, it can make you the sanest, the most graceful, the most loving.

All of humanity is in peril of extinction if each one of us does not dare, now and henceforth, always to tell only the truth, and all the truth, and to do so promptly - right now.

We live in what virtually amounts to a museum - which does not happen to a lot of people.

Civil disobedience is not accepted by religion and the state does not accept it and there are many verses in the Holy Book that talk of following the ruler.

The ability to reduce everything to simple fundamental laws does not imply the ability to start from those laws and reconstruct the universe.

Activity does not necessarily mean life.

Why does man need a meaning to life?

If you place [your bet] with God, you lose nothing, even if it turns out that God does not exist. But if you place it against God, and you are wrong and God does exist, you lose everything.

The fewer data needed, the better the information. And an overload of information, that is, anything much beyond what is truly needed, leads to information blackout. It does not enrich, but impoverishes.

The happiness of one does not mean the unhappiness of the others.

True genius does not fulfill expectations; true genius shatters it.

What good does it do a black youth to know that an employer must pay him $2 an hour if the fact that he must be paid that amount is what keeps him from getting a job?

Atheist’s denial of God’s existence needs just as much substantiation as does the theist’s claim; the atheist must give plausible reasons for rejecting God’s existence.

Although the pure truth has never been stated, nevertheless it has never been lost. Its existence does not depend upon human statement but upon human sensitivity. In this it is unlike all other knowledge.

The plan of "counting the chickens before they are hatched" is an error of ancient date, but it does not seem to improve by age.

The great genius does not let his work be determined by the concrete finite conditions that surround him, whilst it is from these that the work of the statesman takes its direction and its termination. ... It is the genius in reality and not the other who is the creator of history, for it is only the genius who is outside and unconditioned by history.

God does not further our spiritual life in spite of our circumstances, but in and by our circumstances.

We are in danger of forgetting that we cannot do what God does, and that God will not do what we can do.

They are always asking a writer why he does not write like somebody else, or a painter why he does not paint like somebody else, quite oblivious of the fact that if either of them did anything of the kind he would cease to be an artist.

A person that does not value your time will not value your advice.

The best servant does his work unseen.

I know for certain that God does not make mistakes, but he does make miracles. I am one. You are, too.

The beautiful are shyer than the ugly, for they move in a world that does not ask for beauty.

Who said to kill does not require gentleness?