David Berlinski Quotes
Darwin's theory of evolution is the last of the great nineteenth-century mystery religions. And as we speak it is now following Freudians and Marxism into the Nether regions, and I'm quite sure that Freud, Marx and Darwin are commiserating one with the other in the dark dungeon where discarded gods gather.David Berlinski
Quotes to Explore
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I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.
Fran Lebowitz -
I love fashion as an art; I love fashion as costume, as a character. I don't like dictates and the phoniness of appearance.
Tahar Rahim -
I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.
Maajid Nawaz -
Because I was a dancer, I started going to auditions for musical theater, which forced me to sing.
Madonna Breakfast Club -
When you've been on a programme called 'An Idiot Abroad' job offers aren't exactly flying in.
Karl Pilkington -
People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.
Cal Thomas
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I didn't know there was a dying-professor section at the bookstore.
Randy Pausch -
I need to start honing in on projects that I want to devote my time to and not put my energies into the unattainable ones.
Dan Deacon -
We all wish we could be in more than one place at the same time. People with families feel guilty all the time-if we spend too much time with our family, we feel we're not working hard enough.
Harold Ramis -
In fact, it is Shakespeare who gives us the map of the mind. It is Shakespeare who invents Freudian Psychology. Freud finds ways of translating it into supposedly analytical vocabulary.
Harold Bloom -
Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference.
Barack Obama -
The crew, like all Italian crews, was generous, warm, and enthusiastic.
Barbara Steele
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Americans believe cotton is best, but we've invented new fabrics that will change your lifestyle.
Tadashi Yanai -
I wanted this to have as wide an audience as possible. I didn't want to get an X rating, because in my opinion once that happens you X-out everyone else.
Dana Plato -
I want to be in New York. It's the place to be.
Mandy Moore -
Our elders are always optimistic in their views of the present, pessimistic in their views of the future; youth is pessimistic toward the present and gloriously hopeful for the future. And it is this hope which is the lever of progress-one might say, the only lever of progress.
Randolph Bourne -
As that the walls worn thin, permit the mindTo look out thorough, and his frailty find. 1
Samuel Daniel -
I think for such a long time people had this misconception of who I was and what I was about.
Adrienne Bailon 3LW
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I'm not angry; I write about angry characters. When I'm doing that, I'm happy. Just like when I'm writing about Mickey Sabbath being lustful, I'm not feeling lustful; I'm happy.
Philip Roth -
Be still, sad heart, and cease repining;Behind the clouds the sun is shining;Thy fate is the common fate of all,Into each life some rain must fall,Some days must be dark and dreary.
Rain -
When you approach spirituality as an adventure of being alive, you start as you would any adventure--with a sense of mystery and not-knowing. Instead of searching for answers that make you feel safe, you set out into the vastness of life and death, with a willingness to continually grow. You open up to the possibility that your ordinary life is an extraordinary adventure, and that your joys and sorrows have meaning. Spiritual practice becomes your rudder, offering direction and insight and discretion as you venture into the unknown.
Elizabeth Lesser -
I always wanted to be Robin Hood or John the Baptist when I was growing up.
Bear Grylls -
That will do extremely well, child. You have delighted us long enough. Let the other young ladies have time to exhibit.
Jane Austen -
Darwin's theory of evolution is the last of the great nineteenth-century mystery religions. And as we speak it is now following Freudians and Marxism into the Nether regions, and I'm quite sure that Freud, Marx and Darwin are commiserating one with the other in the dark dungeon where discarded gods gather.
David Berlinski