Doe Quotes - Page 75

Covetousness is the greatest misfortune. One who does not know what is enough will never have enough.

Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.

Many people assert that this abandonment of the god hypothesis means the abandonment of all religion and all moral sanctions. This is simply not true. But it does mean, once our relief at jettisoning an outdated piece of ideological furniture is over, that we must construct something to take its place.

Contrology is not a fatiguing system of dull, boring, abhorred exercises repeated daily "ad-nauseam." Neither does it demand you joining a gymnasium nor the purchasing of expensive apparatus. You may derive all the benefits of Contrology in your own home.

Looking foolish does the spirit good. The need not to look foolish is one of youth's many burdens; as we get older we are exempted from more and more.

Be assured that God does more in us than we for Him; and that what we do is only for Him in proportion as it is He Himself who works it in us.

The true mark of greatness is not found in what a person does with their own life. It is found in helping others discover that, they too, can become great.

For authority proceeds from true reason, but reason certainly does not proceed from authority. For every authority which is not upheld by true reason is seen to be weak, whereas true reason is kept firm and immutable by her own powers and does not require to be confirmed by the assent of any authority.

Our senses don't deceive us: our judgment does

It may be the rooster that does all the crowing but it's the hen that delivers the goods.

Note this, I beseech you: in active obedience we worship God by doing what pleases God, but by passive obedience we do as well worship God by being pleased with what God does.

Coveting, pouting, or tearing others down does not elevate your standing, nor does demeaning someone else improve your self-image.

but a sanguine temper, though for ever expecting more good than occurs, does not always pay for its hopes by any proportionate depression. it soon flies over the present failure, and begins to hope again.

The team that is going to win is the one that does its homework the best by studying its opponents.

But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.

No man should be allowed to be President who does not understand hogs.

History does not belong to us; we belong to it.

If you take cranberries and stew them like apple sauce, it tastes much more like prunes than rhubarb does.

Meaninglessness does not come from being weary of pain. Meaninglessness comes from being weary of pleasure.

My stuff is my stuff. I do it for my own reasons, using my own peculiar set of guidelines. I'm not a student of the genre. I don't care what anybody else does.

One does not succeed by sticking to convention.

I wonder maybe if our Lord does not suffer more from our indifference, than He did from the crucifixion.

Tidiness ... makes life easier and more agreeable, does harm to no one and actually saves time and trouble to the person who practices it: there must be an ominous flaw to explain why millions of generations continue to reject it.

The person who properly disciplines himself to do those things that he does not especially care to do, becomes successful.

One does not learn how to die by killing others.