Doe Quotes - Page 148

True universality does not consist in knowing much but in loving much.

In socialist society certain inequalities in property still exist. But in socialist society there is no longer unemployment, no exploitation, no oppression of nationalities. In socialist society everyone is obliged to work, although he does not, in return for his labour receive according to his requirements, but according to the quantity and quality of the work he has performed.

They see Hermione as someone who is not vulnerable, but I see her as someone who does have quite a lot of vulnerability in her personality.

Any theology that does not lead to song is, at a fundamental level, a flawed theology.

Doctrine is useless if it is not accompanied by a holy life. It is worse than useless; it does positive harm. Something of 'the image of Christ' must be seen and observed by others in our private life, and habits, and character, and doings.

Because they're stupid, that's why. That's why everybody does everything.

The very large units of production and exchange have access to credit on a large scale, sometimes without any cover at all, merely upon the prospect of their success, and always upon terms far easier than are open to their smaller rivals. It is perhaps on this line of easier credit that large capital today does most harm to small capital, drives it out and ruins it.

Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated.

Does anyone have any questions for my answers?

Theosophy is who Theosophy does, not thinks, not studies, not feels but does.

I love the expression 'makes your skin crawl,' because when you have that sensation while you're watching something, it really does.

The criterion and rule of the true is to have made it. Accordingly, our clear and distinct idea of the mind cannot be a criterion of the mind itself, still less of other truths. For while the mind perceives itself, it does not make itself.

Does inadequacy not characterize all that we make use of to perceive and describe the world? Are the signs of language not just as inadequate, albeit differently, as are images?

An anomaly is not an abnormality. Diversity does not signify sickness.

If we carry this line of argument to its logical conclusion, the meaning of life consists of the flaws in one's conceptions and what one does about them. Life can be seen as a fertile fallacy.

The one who does not remember history is bound to live through it again

It does bother me when they [tabloids] drag friends of mine into it and talk about them and lie about them. My friends have no part in it; they're not celebrities, so why should they have to accept the downside of celebrity? That worries me for a bit.

The ability to speak does not make you intelligent.

The purpose of the painter is simply to reproduce in other minds the impression which a scene has made upon him. A work of art does not appeal to the intellect. It does not appeal to the moral sense. Its aim is to instruct, not to edify, but to awaken an emotion.

The intelligence of the lower forms of animal life, like a great deal of human intelligence, does not involve a self.

A design isn't finished until somebody is using it. Brenda Laurel Intelligent design itself does not have any content.

Always begin anew with the day, just as nature does. It is one of the sensible things that nature does.

One is not low because of birth nor does birth make one holy. Deeds alone make one low, deeds alone make one holy.

Hatred of evil does not diminish evil, it increases it.

That which is around me does not affect my mood; my mood affects that which is around me.