"It's strange that in an age when we pride ourselves on our independence of thought we meekly submit without further question to the declaration of a clearly unbalanced nineteenth century philosopher that God is dead! That's cheeky, of course - and one rarely comes away from reading Nietzsche without learning something new and significant. He's certainly FAR more unsettling for faith than any contemporary atheist I know of."

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Source : "Towards hope". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. July 18, 2014.

George Pattison

#Atheist Quotes #Reading Quotes #Pride Quotes

“Today, the Muslim world is the poorest of the global powers.”
“The streets were dark with something more then night.”
“You have to slow your heart rate, stay calm. You have to shoot in between your heartbeats.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“There's a rule in Hollywood: stay away from water and stay away from snow, and I had both.”
“Sometimes I feel like I'm a preacher as well, 'cause I can really get into an audience.”
“If you will it, it is no dream”

Source : Altneuland epigraph (1902)
“I get very deep into the writing and recording process.”
“Not till your thoughts cease all their branching here and there, not till you abandon all thoughts of seeking for something, not till your mind is motionless as wood or stone, will you be on the right road to the Gate.”

Source : "The Zen Teaching of Huang Po: On the Transmission of Mind". Book by Huangbo and John Blofeld, p. 79, 1958.

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