Benjamin De Casseres famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

My studies in Speculative philosophy, metaphysics, and science are all summed up in the image of a mouse called man running in and out of every hole in the Cosmos hunting for the Absolute Cheese.
-- Benjamin De Casseres

#Running #Atheist #Philosophy
Everything is grounded in mystery. Everything is swimming, and the stable does not exist. Life is a series of guesses, and there is mystery in a match. The commonplace is the habitual and the habitual is a mystery that has grown stale from sense-insistence. Life undulates; there is no such thing as a level; a straight line is a myth, and all directions are indirections. Up and down are movable points on horizons that do not exist; focus is an eye-trick, and motion is cell-palpitation. All things radiate from a common point, and differences are the same looked at from various angles.
-- Benjamin De Casseres

#Eye #Swimming #Cells
Progress is nothing but the victory of laughter over dogma.
-- Benjamin De Casseres

#Laughter #Victory #Progress
Fame is the beauty parlor of the dead.
-- Benjamin De Casseres

#Fame #Parlor

By the time it came to the edge of the Forest, the stream had grown up, so that it was almost a river, and, being grown-up, it did not run and jump and sparkle along as it used to do when it was younger, but moved more slowly. For it knew now where it was going, and it said to itself, â€œThere is no hurry. We shall get there some day.â€ But all the little streams higher up in the Forest went this way and that, quickly, eagerly, having so much to find out before it was too late.
The movie, like the book before it, is an expertly built machine for the mass production of tears. Directed by Josh Boone ('Stuck in Love') with scrupulous respect for John Green's best-selling young-adult novel, the film sets out to make you weep -- not just sniffle or choke up a little, but sob until your nose runs and your face turns blotchy. It succeeds.
When the guy says go, you start to suffer - or you might as well not be out there. It's a small piece of your life, make it hurt.
I feel it was just a few years ago I was running around in short pants
He wasn't what sent me running. He was what had made me want to stay.
Atheists have just as much of a right to the public discourse as any ... people of any religious faith in this country.
I affirm my faith when I'm asked about it. But I always try to do so in a way that communicates absolute respect, not only for people who worship in a different way, but just as much respect for those who do not believe in God and who are atheists.
I consider myself a spiritual atheist. I certainly believe there are forces bigger than ourselves, and that we should be searching, individually, for meaning in our lives. But I don't believe there's a supreme being, an intelligence that created everything.
Religion without philosophy is sentiment, or sometimes fanaticism, while philosophy without religion is mental speculation.
The philosophy of the school was quite simple - the bright boys specialised in Latin, the not so bright in science and the rest managed with geography or the like.

Benjamin De Casseres famous quotes

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