Doe Quotes - Page 47

In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself - nature does it for you.

After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can't trust a person.

Use the smallest word that does the job.

If one does not act, one cannot understand.

The so-called modern education, with all its defects, however, does others so much more good than it does the Negro, because it has been worked out in conformity to the needs of those who have enslaved and oppressed weaker peoples.

Man does not have a soul. He is a soul. He has a body.

It is wonderful when God saves a drunkard which He sometimes does, but it is more wonderful still when God saves little children before they become drunkards, libertines, and degenerates.

Taking photographs is generally an act of 'looking at the object, whereas 'being seen' or 'showing' is what is most interest to one who does a self-portrait...self-portraits deny not only photography itself but the 20th century as an era as well...an inevitable phenomenon at the end of the 20th century.

Who is not liberal when young, does not have a heart. Who is not conservative when old, does not have a brain.

Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.

Just as every drop of the ocean carries the taste of the ocean, so does every moment carry the taste of eternity.

Discretion, like the hole in a doughnut, does not exist except as an area left open by a surrounding belt of restriction. It is therefore a relative concept. It always makes sense to ask, "Discretion under which standards?" or "Discretion as to which authority?

Intelligence cannot be present without understanding. No computer has any awareness of what it does.

If the ends don't justify the means, then what does?

The fact is that you are not the body. The Self does not move but the world moves in it. You are only what you are.

I love, because my love is not dependent on the object of love. My love is dependent on my state of being. So whether the other person changes, becomes different, friend turns into a foe, does not matter, because my love was never dependent on the other person. My love is my state of being. I simply love.

He who does not desire power is fit to hold it.

The distinction between sanity and insanity is narrower than a razor’s edge, sharper than a hound’s tooth, more agile than a mule deer. It is more elusive than the merest phantom. Perhaps it does not even exist; perhaps it is a phantom.

God doesn't do the work for you; he does the work through you. It's not enough to look up; you must also look within.

A picture does a great job, but it's not nearly like being there.

Whoever is a complete person does not need to be an authority.

Narcissus weeps to find that his Image does not return his love.

The Goddess does not shower her gifts on those who reject them.

One should see the world, and see himself as a scale with an equal balance of good and evil. When he does one good deed the scale is tipped to the good - he and the world is saved. When he does one evil deed the scale is tipped to the bad - he and the world is destroyed.

no matter how many instances of white swans we may have observed, this does not justify the conclusion that all swans are white.