Doe Quotes - Page 16

The massive bulk of the earth does indeed shrink to insignificance in comparison with the size of the heavens.

Why does a chicken coop only have two doors? ... Because if it had four doors, it would be a chicken sedan.

Death is nothing, nor life either, for that matter. To die, to sleep, to pass into nothingness, what does it matter? Everything is an illusion.

In some ways Lester Young is the most complex rhythmically of any musician. He does some things which are just phenomenal.

There is not a crime, there is not a dodge, there is not a trick, there is not a swindle, there is not a vice which does not live by secrecy.

A Christian is a walking sermon. They preach far more than a minister does, for they preach all week long.

In this world there is a paradise, whoever does not enter it will not enter the Paradise of the Hereafter.

I quite like Low, the band from Minnesota. They're absolutely mesmerizing. I get much the same feeling from anything that Will Oldham does.

I rather live as if God exists to find out that He doesn't than live as if he doesn't exist to find out He does.

The speed of light does not merely transform the world. It becomes the world. Globalization is the speed of light.

Handsome is that handsome does.

The man who deceives shows more justice than he who does not

Hardly a competent workman can be found who does not devote a considerable amount of time to studying just how slowly he can work and still convince his employer that he is going at a good pace.

A comedian does funny things. A good comedian does things funny.

Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent.

What does it matter where we go? Wherever we go, won't we be serving God there? And wherever we go, won't we have Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament with us? Isn't that enough to make us happy?

By looking at a person's features, clothing, and speech, even Confucius would not be able to say what sort of a person he is. But by testing him in a position and seeing what he he does, even someone with so-so judgment would be able to know if he is wise or not.

Music has the power to make me feel good like nothing else does. It gives me some peace for a while. Takes me back to who I really am.

The aphorism, the apothegm, in which I am the first among the Germans to be a master, are the forms of “eternity”; it is my ambition to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book — what everyone else does not say in a book.

Purity does not mean crushing the instincts but having the instincts as servants and not the master of the spirit.

Zen teaches nothing; it merely enables us to wake up and become aware. It does not teach, it points.

If you want real control, drop the illusion of control; let life have you. It does anyway. You’re just telling yourself the story of how it doesn’t.

Those who participate in [sabbath] break the anxiety cycle. They are invited to awareness that life does not consist in frantic production and consumption that reduces everyone else to threat and competition.

If the cuckoo does not sing, kill it.

The church must be reminded that it is not the master or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state. It must be the guide and the critic of the state, and never its tool. If the church does not recapture its prophetic zeal, it will become an irrelevant social club without moral or spiritual authority.