If you understand, things are just as they are. If you do not understand, things are just as they are.
—Zen saying
Where can I find a man who has forgotten words? I would like to have a word with him.
—Chuang Tzu
For monkeys to speak of truth is hubris of the highest degree. Where is it writ large that talking monkeys should be able to model the cosmos? If a sea urchin or a raccoon were to propose to you that it had a viable truth about the universe, the absurdity of that assertion would be self-evident, but in our case we make an exception.
—Terence McKenna
Man fixes some wonderful erection of his own between himself and the wild chaos, and gradually goes bleached and stifled under his parasol. Then comes a poet, enemy of convention, and makes a slit in the umbrella; and lo! the glimpse of chaos is a vision, a window to the sun.
—D. H. Lawrence
I do not believe in God, but I have a sense of the infinite.
—Robert Desnos
A God who let us prove his existence would be an idol.
—Dietrich Bonhoeffer
We keep thinking of deity as a kind of fact, somewhere; God as a fact. God is simply our own notion of something that is symbolic of transcendence and mystery. The mystery is what’s important.
—Joseph Campbell
They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.
—Emily Dickinson
Most ball games are lost, not won.
—Casey Stengel
Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
—Isaac Asimov
You've got to take the bitter with the sour.
—Samuel Goldwyn
As a matter of principle, I never attend the first annual anything.
—George Carlin
I want this day to be my fresh start. I want this to be the day I step out of my comfort zone and go somewhere new.
—Jessi Kirby in Golden
It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions.
—Marcel Proust
The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.
—Will Rogers