Philip Appleman famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Whatever we are, whatever we make of ourselves, is all we will ever have - and that, in its profound simplicity, is the meaning of life.
-- Philip Appleman

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HEAVEN: The big apartheid in the sky.
-- Philip Appleman

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This is the only real revelation â€” that God is only a trick with mirrors, our dark reflection in a glass.
-- Philip Appleman

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God must have a weird sense of values, and if there's a Judgment Day, as some folks think, He's going to have a lot to answer for.
-- Philip Appleman

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Religion stalks across the face of human history, knee-deep in the blood of innocents, clasping its red hands in hymns of praise to an approving God.
-- Philip Appleman

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Profound love demands a deep conception and out of this develops reverence for the mystery of life. It brings us close to all beings, to the poorest and smallest as well as all others.
I am entirely on the side of mystery. I mean, any attempt to explain away the mystery is ridiculous. I believe in the profound and unfathomable mystery of life which has a sort of divine quality about it.
Very few of us are capable of being Free Thinkers, needing neither to adore nor to insult God, the insult often being an act of faith more profound than adoration.
The size of the lie is a definite factor in causing it to be believed, for the vast masses of the nation are in the depths of their hearts more easily deceived than they are consciously and intentionally bad. The primitive simplicity of their minds renders them a more easy prey to a big lie than a small one, for they themselves often tell little lies but would be ashamed to tell a big one.
Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.
At times almost all of us envy the animals. They suffer and die, but do not seem to make a "problem" of it.
This paper of yours is so lightly written that you must have sweated terribly.
The selfless giving, the service, the kindness which you give out into this world that is the currency of (the) meaning (of life).
Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.
Everything is done with a goal, and that goal is "good".

Philip Appleman famous quotes

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