"Our idea of God tells us more about ourselves than about Him."

-- Thomas Merton

#Wisdom Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“There are three degrees of filial piety. The highest is being a credit to our parents, the second is not disgracing them; the lowest is being able simply to support them.”
“I think that I've been pigeon-holed by virtue of the fact that I've spent so much time in front of a green screen.”
“But I learned first-hand how the news media operates by watching how they interpreted, changed, and misrepresented my intentions.”
“I have only to speak for myself; to speak for freedom for myself; to determine for freedom for myself; and in doing so, I speak and determine for the freedom of every slave on every plantation, and for the fugitives on my right hand.”
“Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.”

Source : A Mathematician's Apology ch. 10 (1940)
“Maybe it's true that life begins at fifty. But everything else starts to wear out, fall out, or spread out.”
“I can see being kind to people, but I don't think giving them money solves the problem. I think it makes the problem worse and it prolongs the ultimate, inevitable end anyway.”
“I am of course a skeptic about the divinity of Christ and a scorner of the notion that there is a God who cares about how we are or what we do. ... Religious skeptics often become very bitter towards the end, as did Mark Twain. ... I know why I will become bitter. I will finally realize that I have had it right all along: that I will not see God, that there is no heaven or Judgement Day.”

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