Roy Wood Sellars famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

No problem is more crucial for a naturalistic view of the world than the mind-body problem.
-- Roy Wood Sellars

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Many will view the compromises that will be made during your negotiations as painful concessions. But why not view them as peace offerings, ones that will provide in return the priceless gifts of hope, security and freedom for our children and our children's?
Upon the subject of education ... I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in.
There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.
Attachment to the Divine leads to detachment from the mind. This leads to the realization that the nature of the Seer and the Divine are the same.
The minds of stone lovers had colonised stones as lichens clung to them with golden or grey-green florid stains. The human world of stones is caught in organic metaphors like flies in amber. Words came from flesh and hair and plants. Reniform, mammilated, botryoidal, dendrite, haematite. Carnelian is from carnal, from flesh. Serpentine and lizardite are stone reptiles ; phyllite is leafy-green.
It is hard for many people today to make the distinction between religion and religiosity, the latter a dangerous parody of the former.
A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.
The work that Christ started but could not finish, I - Adolf Hitler - will conclude.
The national Government sees in both Christian denominations the most important factor for the maintenance of our society.
I am convinced that I am acting as the agent of our Almighty Creator. By fighting the Jews, I am doing the Lord's work.

Roy Wood Sellars famous quotes

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