David Schuller Quotes

There is no difference between religion and politics. Both involve lies and fanatical beliefs that generaly defy logic... Just like rock climbing.

David Schuller

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• I live in a 'sky island,' a unique mountain valley environment where half the animal species of North America can be found.

  

  Nancy Farmer
  • Live
  • America
  • Environment

• Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Happy
  • Man
  • Happiness

• I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Work
  • Great
  • Literature

• I'll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying.

  

  Kanye West
  • People
  • Serious
  • Enjoy

• The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Live

• The mystified idea I had of Israel - the demonization of Israel - it just wasn't true.

  

  Ziad Doueiri
  • True
  • Idea
  • Just

• I'd say Juventus has a story as legendary as the Yankees.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • Story
  • Say
  • Legendary

• I think I had the most fun making a movie with 'Dedication,' just because you knew that it was a passion project for everyone involved. We had X amount of days to shoot New York in the cold. No trailers. Just sort of kind of doing it guerilla style in a way.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Movie
  • Fun
  • Passion

• Am I a criminal? The world knows I'm not a criminal. What are they trying to put me in jail for? You've lost common sense in this society because of religious fanaticism and dogma.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • World
  • Trying
  • Society

• It is often suggested that the A.N.C. is controlled by the Communist Party, by Communists. Well, I have been long enough in the A.N.C. to know that that has never been true.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Long
  • True
  • Know

• I've upped my standards. Now, up yours.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • Up
  • Now
  • Standards

• When I was growing up, it was a lot of punk and hardcore music going on in legion halls and firehouses, and we'd play those shows, and it was very Jersey. It was very suburban, and there's just a great pride there.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Up
  • Great
  • Music

• It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Truth
  • Nature
  • Some

• I see flaws as a kind of beauty.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Kind
  • Beauty
  • See

• Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Faith
  • Moments
  • Vice

• If you have a surreal life like I do, you've got to have fun along the way.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Have Fun

• My teammates have put me in all different kinds of positions to score goals, and I can't say it enough, and I really through and through believe it in my heart that I'm only as good as my teammates allow me to be.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Different

• I'm a gun owner.

  

  Patrick Leahy
  • Gun
  • Owner

• Faith branches off the highroad before reason begins

  

  William James
  • Political
  • Reason
  • Branches

• Those who have been eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, and the arts have all had tendencies toward melancholia.

  

  Aristotle
  • Poetry
  • Politics
  • Philosophy

• Superstitions, and especially the early cultivation of religion, with its "fear of the Lord" and of unknown mysterious agencies, are especially potent in the development of the instinct of fear. Even the early cultivation of morality and conscientiousness, with their fears of right and wrong, often causes psychoneurotic states in later life. Religious, social, and moral taboos and superstitions, associated with apprehension of threatening impending evil, based on the fear instinct, form the germs of psychopathic affections.

  

  Boris Sidis
  • Fear
  • Evil
  • Religion

• There is no difference between religion and politics. Both involve lies and fanatical beliefs that generaly defy logic... Just like rock climbing.

  

  David Schuller
  • Religion
  • Politics
  • Differences