top of page
"For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize."
Standard
Customized
More

"Comparing what we're looking for misses the point. It's wanting to know that makes us matter. Otherwise we're going out the way we came in. That's why you can't believe in the afterlife, Valentine. Believe in the after, by all means, but not the life. Believe in God, the soul, the spirit, the infinite, believe in angels if you like, but not in the great celestial get-together for an exchange of views. If the answers are in the back of the book I can wait, but what a drag. Better to struggle on knowing that failure is final."
Author Name
Personal Development

"Carter and Helene still ask questions. I used to ask questions, and I got the answer: nothing. The answer is 'nothing."
Author Name
Personal Development

"If God has the answer to every question, maybe my appreciation for God should be shaped more by the number of questions and less by the wisdom of the answers."
Author Name
Personal Development

"Assumptions can be dangerous, JUST ASK!!"
Author Name
Personal Development

"Was there ever something not known before it was recognized?"
Author Name
Personal Development

"You may have noticed that the questions asked are better than the answers given. What do you expect? Perhaps we could submit these answers in a game and see if anyone could figure out what the hell the question was. "Ahh, how to be happy?"
Author Name
Personal Development

"Challenge everything for the Truth. Only those who challenge everything for the Truth are the blessed ones."
Author Name
Personal Development

"The most boring and unproductive question one can ask of any religion is whether or not it is true."
Author Name
Personal Development

"In rational inquiry, we idealize to selected domains in such a way (we hope) as to permit us to discover crucial features of the world. Data and observations, in the sciences, have an instrumental character. They are of no particular interest in themselves, but only insofar as they constitute evidence that permits one to determine fundamental features of the real world, within a course of inquiry that is invariably undertaken under sharp idealizations, often implicit and simply common understanding, but always present."
Author Name
Personal Development

"Do you train for passing tests or do you train for creative inquiry?"
Author Name
Personal Development
More

"We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him."
Respect

"They are fond of fun and therefore witty, wit being well-bred insolence."
Humor

"God has many names though He is only one Being."
God

"Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence."
Happiness

"Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime."
Society

"What lies in our power to do it lies in our power not to do."
Power

"The soul never thinks without a picture."
Wisdom

"Friends are an aid to the young to guard them from error to the elderly to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action to those in the prime of life to assist them to noble deeds."
Friendship

"And it will often happen that a man with wealth in the form of coined money will not have enough to eat, and what a ridiculous kind of wealth is that which even in abundance will not save you from dying with hunger!"
Economy

"Equity bids us be merciful to the weakness of human nature; to think less about the laws than about the man who framed them, and less about what he said than about what he meant; not to consider the actions of the accused so much as his intentions; nor this or that detail so much as the whole story; to ask not what a man is now but what he has always or usually been."
Law
bottom of page