philosophy

"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing."

"I find people with depression are like a broken clocks, and clock maker after clock maker will try to fix you, but sometimes time itself is the answer."

"With the arrival of electric technology, man has extended, or set outside himself, a live model of the central nervous system itself. To the degree that this is so, it is a development that suggests a desperate suicidal autoamputation, as if the central nervous system could no longer depend on the physical organs to be protective buffers against the slings and arrows of outrageous mechanism."

"Forgiveness is created by the restitution of the abuser; of the wrongdoer. It is not something to be squeeeeeezed out of the victim in a further act of conscience-corrupting abuse."

"Say No to Drugs Commercials The image of an egg sizzling in a frying pan is not your brain on drugs.It's just a fucking omelet."

"Life is magical and blissful when we live to love the beauty of life."

"For Christians . . . an unreflective faith is not possible if we take seriously the injunction to love God with the mind as well as the heart and soul."

"All I wanted to do, ever, was be myself."

"Rationalism is false not because it seeks to express reality in rational mode, so far as this possible, but because it seeks to embrace the whole of reality in the realm of reason, as if the reason coincides with the very principle of things."

"You are always free when you have the ability to think."

"I [10w] 'I' is a wellspring in the desertoverflowing with life."

"Is there any knowledge in the world which is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?"

"Too many people get credit for being good, when they are only being passive. They are too often praised for being broadminded when they are so broadminded they can never make up their minds about anything."

"If you live today, you breath in nihilism ... it's the gas you breathe. If I hadn't had the Church to fight it with or to tell me the necessity of fighting it, I would be the stinkingest logical positivist you ever saw right now."

"Teenagers [10w] Teenagers are the lone survivors of a ruthless hormonal holocaust."

"There is nothing more wonderful than a book. It may be a message to us from the dead, from human souls we never saw who lived perhaps thousands of miles away, and yet these little sheets of paper speak to us, arouse us, teach us, open our hearts and in turn open their hearts to us like brothers. Without books, God is silent, justice dormant, philosophy lame."

"Don't hate the media; become the media."

"The more details, depth and thought you put into your ideas the more valuable they become."

"I think, therefore a single fertilized egg cell can replicate itself into trillions of specialized and exquisitely organized cells."

"As life in general constituted much pain in the form of struggles against poverty, disease, ignorance, and emotional anguish, what more civilized way for people to alleviate the same than by giving themselves to one another as brothers and sisters in deed as well as in word? A society of people hoping to become politically superior needed first to become spiritually valid."