Whenever people are certain they understand our peculiar situation here on this planet, it is because they have accepted a religious Faith or a secular Ideology Ideologies are the modern form of Faiths and just stopped thinking.
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Robert Anton Wilson
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Failure fear people who pursue success, cause their bravery to become successful is far more than failure to understand. – Festus
Failure fear people who pursue success, cause their bravery to become successful is far more than failure to understand.
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Festus adeoye
If you had come to me a hundred years ago, do you think I should have dreamed of the telephone Why, even now I cannot understand it! I use it
If you had come to me a hundred years ago, do you think I should have dreamed of the telephone Why, even now I cannot understand it! I use it every day, I transact half my correspondence by means of it, but I don t understand it. Think of that little stretched disk of iron at the end of a wire repeating in your ear not only sounds, but words not only words, but all the most delicate and elusive inflections and nuances of tone which separate one human voice from another!
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William Crookes
A central lesson of science is that to understand complex issues (or even simple ones), we must try to free our minds of dogma and to
A central lesson of science is that to understand complex issues or even simple ones, we must try to free our minds of dogma and to guarantee the freedom to publish, to contradict, and to experiment. Arguments from authority are unacceptable.
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Carl Sagan,
Billions amp; Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium
I don’t understand people who say they need more “Me Time.” What other time is there Do these people spend part of their day in someone
I don’t understand people who say they need more ‘Me Time.’ What other time is there Do these people spend part of their day in someone else’s body
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Jarod Kintz,
This Book is Not for Sale
Oh, we do not understand death, we never understand it; creatures are only truly dead when everyone else has died who knew them. –
Oh, we do not understand death, we never understand it; creatures are only truly dead when everyone else has died who knew them.
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Arthur Schnitzler,
Selected Short Fiction
He feared me as many men fear women: because their mistresses (or their wives) understand them. They are scarcely adult, some men: they wish
He feared me as many men fear women: because their mistresses or their wives understand them. They are scarcely adult, some men: they wish women to understand them, and to that end they tell them all their secrets; and then, when they are properly understood, they hate their women for understanding them.
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Julian Barnes,
Flaubert’s Parrot
Someday I will understand Auschwitz. This was a brave statement but innocently absurd. No one will ever understand Auschwitz. What I might
Someday I will understand Auschwitz. This was a brave statement but innocently absurd. No one will ever understand Auschwitz. What I might have set down with more accuracy would have been: Someday I will write about Sophie’s life and death, and thereby help demonstrate how absolute evil is never extinguished from the world. Auschwitz itself remains inexplicable. The most profound statement yet made about Auschwitz was not a statement at all, but a response.
The query: ‘At Auschwitz, tell me, where was God ‘
And the answer: ‘Where was man
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William Styron,
Sophie’s Choice
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