Doe Quotes - Page 88

The breath of the flute player: does it belong to the flute?

Any model we make does not describe the universe it describes what our brains are capable of saying at this time.

Every generation is confronted anew with the task not to look the other way when injustice occurs. ... Everyone is responsible for what he does and co-responsible for what he lets happen.

But one does not forget by trying to forget. One only remembers.

Nature does not steal time, it amplifies it.

A rising tide raises all boats, but you need a boat to rise with the tide. What does he who does not have a boat do?

In reality, psychiatric diagnosing is a kind of spiritual profiling that can destroy lives and frequently does.

Performance's only life is in the present. Performance cannot be saved, recorded, documented, or otherwise participate in the circulation of representations of representations: once it does so, it becomes something other than performance.

The ideal project does not exist, each time there is the opportunity to realize an approximation.

Coherently democratic authority carries the conviction that true discipline does not exist in the muteness of those who have been silenced but in the stirrings of those who have been challenged, in the doubt of those who have been prodded, and in the hopes of those who have been awakened.

A warrior is always aware of what is worth fighting for. He does not go into combat over things that do not concern him, and he never wastes his time over provocations.

For an answer which cannot be expressed the question too cannot be expressed. The riddle does not exist.

The suicide arrives at the conclusion that what he is seeking does not exist; the seeker concludes that what he has not yet looked in the right place

Human nature, if healthy, demands excitement; and if it does not obtain its thrilling excitement in the right way, it will seek it in the wrong. God never makes bloodless stoics; He makes no passionless saints.

The idea of beauty does not descend into matter unless this is prepared as carefully as possible. This preparation consists of three things: arrangement, measure, and aspect or form.

It is absolutely certain that God does exist.

Stay away from a companionship that does not benefit you with knowledge.

We understand tornadoes scientifically, but it still feels supernatural. The randomness makes it feel supernatural.

If I despised myself, it would be no compensation if everyone saluted me, and if I respect myself, it does not trouble me if others hold me lightly.

A farmer does not grow something in the sense that he or she creates it. That human is only a small part of the whole process by which nature expresses its being.

I freely chose the kind of life I led because I was convinced that a woman has as much right as a man to live the way she does if she does no actual harm to society.

It is impossible to understand the history of economic thought if one does not pay attention to the fact that economics as such is a challenge to the conceit of those in power.

If God can do anything he can make a stone so heavy that even he can't lift it. Then there is something God cannot do, he cannot lift the stone. Therefore God does not exist.

The fact that mathematics does such a good job of describing the Universe is a mystery that we don't understand. And a debt that we will probably never be able to repay.

It often runs in families," she remarked: "just as a love for pastry does.