Thomas Nagel Quotes
Perhaps the belief in God is the belief that the universe is intelligible, but not to us.Thomas Nagel
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Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.
D. Elton Trueblood -
We don't really have a place in the universe, as far as on a timeline. But nothing else does, either. Therefore every moment really is the most important moment that's ever happened, including this moment right now.
Kaki King -
Most people believe that the Creator of the universe wrote (or dictated) one of their books. Unfortunately, there are many books that pretend to divine authorship, and each makes incompatible claims about how we all must live.
Sam Harris -
It is my absolute belief that Indians have unlimited talent. I have no doubt about our capabilities.
Narendra Modi -
Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.
Galileo Galilei -
The universe is an example of love. Like a tree. Like the ocean. Like my body. Like my wheelchair. I see the love.
Ram Dass
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I believe that your religion should be between you and whoever your belief is in.
Zayn Malik One Direction -
Fanatics do not have faith - they have belief. With faith you let go. You trust. Whereas with belief you cling.
Yann Martel -
Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.
Edith Hamilton -
My friends who have babies can't do anything. You can't go out at night. Having a baby is like a DUI from the universe.
Natasha Leggero -
To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.
Lao Tzu -
To pass from estrangement from God to be a son of God is the basic fact of conversion. That altered relationship with God gives you an altered relationship with yourself, with your brother man, with nature, with the universe.
E. Stanley Jones
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What we have to do is strike a balance between the idea that government should do everything and the idea, the belief, that government ought to do nothing. Strike a balance.
Barbara Jordan -
Negro equality! Fudge!! How long, in the government of a God, great enough to make and maintain this Universe, shall there continue to be knaves to vend, and fools to gulp, so low a piece of demagougeism as this?
Abraham Lincoln -
The Platonists and their Christian successors held the peculiar notion that the Earth was tainted and somehow nasty, while the heavens were perfect and divine. The fundamental idea that the Earth is a planet, that we are citizens of the Universe, was rejected and forgotten.
Carl Sagan -
Everything in the world began with a yes. One molecule said yes to another molecule and life was born. But before prehistory there was the prehistory of prehistory and there was the never and there was the yes. It was ever so. I do not know why, but I do know that the universe never began.
Clarice Lispector -
'You look older, son.''Yes, well, some of us have to get on with the business of being alive in the entropic universe.'
Alastair Reynolds -
I don't believe pumpkin pie is even made from pumpkin. I mean, how can something that smells that shitty make a pie so sweet? There's not enough sugar in the universe.
Lewis Black
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I'm a musical geek. It's like there's this big, wild universe in my head, and I love to express it.
Labrinth LSD -
'Iron Man' and 'Iron Man 2' are as Jon Favreau films as you can see.
Kevin Feige -
The true manipulator never has a reputation for manipulating.
Martin Amis -
God is so clear in spelling out His attributes in scripture in order that others would know what He is really like.
Francis Chan -
All writers are liars. They twist events to suit themselves. They make use of their own tragedies to make a better story... They are terrible people.
Nina Bawden -
Perhaps the belief in God is the belief that the universe is intelligible, but not to us.
Thomas Nagel