"Language is conceived in sin and science is its redemption."

-- Willard Van Orman Quine

#Redemption Quotes #Language Quotes #Sin Quotes

“Worshipping God is the great essential of fitness. If you have not been worshipping...when you get to work you will not only be useless yourself, but a tremendous hindrance to those who are associated with you.”
“Unless you can find some sort of LOYALTY, you cannot find unity and peace in your active living.”

Source : Josiah Royce (1995). “The Philosophy of Loyalty”, p.23, Vanderbilt University Press
“When I came out rapping on my record, a lot of people said, Oh, you just want to be like Puff.”
“In the current climate, we live in a pessimistic and non-idealistic world.”
“So that in 1974, when I graduated as a lawyer, I figured I'm not going to be a lawyer under a military regime.”
“We were preparing not Peace only, but Eternal Peace. There was about us the halo of some divine mission. We were bent on doing great, permanent noble things.”

Source : "Peacemaking, 1919".
“As an arts journalist in London, working mainly for the BBC, I interviewed hundreds if not thousands of authors. From them I gleaned a great deal of passing instruction in writing and I observed one fascinating detail: no two writers approach their work - physically - in the same way.”
“I pray that each one of us stays awake as we fall. I pray that we choose to go into the abyss willingly and that our fall is cushioned by faith--faith that at the bottom we will be caught and taught and turned toward the light. I pray that we don't waste precious energy feeling ashamed of our mistakes, or embarrassed by our flaws. After years of teaching, I know only a few things for sure. One of them is this: We are chunks of dense matter that need to be cracked open. Our errors and failings are chinks in the heart's armor through which our true colors can shine.”

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