Nicole Oresme famous quotes

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  • I believe in instinct, not reason. When reason is right, nine times out of ten it is impotent, and when it prevails, nine times out of ten it is wrong.

  • I'm still agnostic. But in the words of Elton Richards, I'm now a reverant agnostic. Which isn't an oxymoron, I swear. I now believe that whether or not there's a God, there is such a thing as sacredness. Life is sacred. The Sabbath can be a sacred day. Prayer can be a sacred ritual. There is something transcendent, beyond the everyday. It's possible that humans created this sacredness ourselves, but that doesn't take away from its power or importance.

  • Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statements and photographs, that they can play at the recording angel and tell the whole truth about another human life.

  • I'd walked too close to heaven and gotten a glimpse. The hell I'd lived before her no longer appealed to me.

  • By the skillful and sustained use of propaganda, one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise.

  • Even today I am not ashamed to say that, overpowered by stormy enthusiasm, I fell down on my knees and thanked Heaven from an overflowing heart for granting me the good fortune of being permitted to live at this time.

  • We now to peace and darkness And earth and thee restore Thy creature that thou madest And wilt cast forth no more.

  • If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.

  • The Earth is the most powerful and energetic planet.

  • No money on earth can buy the love and affection that has been given to me by a grateful nation.