Doe Quotes - Page 58

What does a woman want? More.

The mind has its own logic but does not often let others in on it.

Religion must be a punishment, because nobody gets religion who does not have a bad conscience.

They say that genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains," he remarked with a smile. "It's a very bad definition, but it does apply to detective work.

Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses to be bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?

When one does not understand death, life can be very confusing.

Fate does not always seek our consent.

Even if a man should chance to speak the most complete truth, yet he himself does not know it; all things are wrapped in appearances

Thoughtcrime is death. Thoughtcrime does not entail death. Thoughtcrime IS death. I have committed even before setting pen to paper the essential crime that contains all others unto itself.

How can the good God Who loves us so much, be happy when we suffer? Never does our suffering make Him happy; but it is necessary for us, and so He sends it to us while, as it were, turning away His Face. . . I assure you that it costs Him dearly to fill us with bitterness.

To the person who desires nothing and does not get entangled in desires, the manifold changes of nature are one panorama of beauty and sublimity.

Religion can only dream to do what science and art does every day.

Individuals carry their success or failure with them. It does not depend on outside conditions.

Only in imaginary experience (in the folk tale, for example), which neutralizes the sense of social realities, does the social world take the form of a universe of possibles equally possible for any possible subject.

Why does mineral water that 'has trickled through mountains for centuries' have a 'use by' date?

The beginner should not be discouraged if he finds he does not have the prerequisites for reading the prerequisites.

Prayer does not fit us for the greater work; prayer is the greater work.

I have learned this: it is not what one does that is wrong, but what one becomes as a consequence of it.

Love without desire is a delusion: it does not exist in nature.

Investment performance doesn't determine real-life returns; investor behavior does.

The hatched chick cannot go back to the shell, the falcon who has found the sky does not willingly sit the nest.

Do not think that saintliness comes from occupation; it depends rather on what one is. The kind of work we do does not make us holy but we may make it holy. However “sacred” a calling may be, as it is a calling, it has no power to sanctify.

The person who knows only one religion does not know any religion.

It is the nature of all hypocrites and false prophets to create a conscience where there is none, and to cause conscience to disappear where it does exist.

Original sin is in us like our beard. We are shaved today and look clean; tomorrow our beard has grown again, nor does it cease growing while we remain on earth. In like manner original sin cannot be extirpated from us; it springs up in us as long as we live.