"Any theory which causes solipsism to seem just as likely an explanation for the phenomena it seeks to describe ought to be held in the utmost suspicion."

-- Iain Banks

#Causes Quotes #Theory Quotes #Suspicion Quotes

“Zen is the enemy of analysis, the friend of intuition. The Zen artist understands the ends of his art intuitively, and the last thing he would do is create categories; the avowed purpose of Zen is to eliminate categories! The true Zen-man holds to the old Taoist proverb, Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.”
“I'm gonna take you to the bank, Senator Trent. To the blood bank!”
“Reproof, especially as it relates to children, administered in all gentleness, will render the culprit not afraid, but ashamed to repeat the offence.”
“Believe in your dreams. If you don't, who will?”
“During the presidential primaries of 1940, I received a request from the Democratic National Committee to sing God Bless America before the speeches.”
“Every man serves a useful purpose: a miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor.”
“This rally must send a message to the Israeli people, to the Jewish people around the world, to the many people in the Arab world, and indeed to the entire world, that the Israeli people want peace, support peace. For this, I thank you.”
“Because morality is a social necessity, the moment faith in god is banished, man's gaze turns from god to man and he becomes socially conscious. Religious belief prevented the growth of a sense of realism. But atheism at once makes man realistic and alive to the needs of morality.”

Source : "The Need of Atheism". Book by Goparaju Ramachandra Rao, 1980.

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