Doe Quotes
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Nature does not teach. A true philosophy may sometimes validate an experience of nature; an experience of nature cannot validate a philosophy. Nature will not verify any theological or metaphysical proposition (or not in the manner we are now considering); she will help to show what it means.
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Objectivity consists in understanding that the only one who never makes a mistake is the one who never does anything.
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I think that's where it comes into play, when you are just looking at a document or whatever and you see the word "disability." Does that automatically trigger something in you that denies someone their personhood?
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Everyone really does have a place and a purpose and a need.
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Consciousness is endless, from one incarnation to the next. It simply will and does manifest in other places and times, regardless of what becomes of the human race.
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Consciousness is a state in which a man knows all at once everything that he in general knows and in which he can see how little he does know and how many contradictions there are in what he knows.
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The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right.
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Only that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is irresistible.
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Things are simply the way they are. They don't give us suffering. Like a thorn: Does a sharp thorn give us suffering? No. It's simply a thorn. It doesn't give suffering to anybody. If we step on it, we suffer immediately. Why do we suffer? Because we stepped on it. So the suffering comes from us.
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He says his aim is poetry. One does not aim at poetry with pistols. At poets, perhaps.
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Your best servant is the person who does not attend so much to hearing what he himself wants as to willing what he has heard from you.
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Describe your product in terms of what it does not in terms of what it is.
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He who learns, and makes no use of his learning, is a beast of burden with a load of books. Does the ass comprehend whether he carries on his back a library or a bundle of faggots?
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It is doubtful that the government knows much more than the public does about how government [Economic] policies will work.
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The root and the flower have to trust each other. If the root does not trust, the plant won't blossom.
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I am not particularly religious. But I think we do face the question of where God is, why we are created and where does life go, why we exist. That sort of thing. And it is very hard to talk about it these days, because it cannot be proven. It is hard to discuss it rationally.
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Your worldview has to have the same shape that reality does.
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Giving does not impoverish us nor does withholding enrich us.
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Nowadays, an artist is someone who makes art mean the things he does.
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The reason the government sells the census as your ticket to getting goodies - rather than as your civic duty - is that distributing goodies is now all the government does.
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If Iran does not take steps in the near future to live up to its obligations, then the United States will not continue to negotiate indefinitely... Our patience is not unlimited.
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A Christian is a walking sermon. They preach far more than a minister does, for they preach all week long.
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A writer's life is so hazardous that anything he does is bad for him. Anything that happens to him is bad: failure's bad, success is bad; impoverishment is bad, money is very, very bad. Nothing good can happen... Except the act of writing.
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Madness is terrific I can assure you, and not to be sniffed at; and in its lava I still find most of the things I write about. It shoots out of one everything shaped, final, not in mere driblets, as sanity does.
