"It means nothing to be open to a proposition we don't understand."

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Carl Sagan

#Atheist Quotes #Mean Quotes

“Our mind is dark in some way, and so we use rhetoric as a kind of prop or foil.”
“But insensate Time is nothing if not cruel and heartless. It corrodes then destroys, so that the man you literally and figuratively looked up to with your chubby face, who scooped you up to cross the street and patted you on the head to laughter, will later look through you from a crooked hospital bed then blindly up at you while wearing makeup in a bargain casket. The people who now surround you generating warmth will disappear leaving only an empty chill; the body you own and the brain it houses will malfunction.”
“Look at your feet. You are standing in the sky. When we think of the sky, we tend to look up, but the sky actually begins at the earth. We walk through it, yell into it, rake leaves, wash the dog, and drive cars in it. We breathe it deep within us. With every breath, we inhale millions of molecules of sky, heat them briefly, and then exhale them back into the world.”

Source : Diane Ackerman, Dave Thurlow, C. Ralph Adler (1999). “Soul of the Sky: Exploring the Human Side of Weather”
“For the sensory thinker, the world of the mind bears a direct physical resemblance to the world outside.”

Source : Robert Sommer (1978). “The Mind's Eye: Imagery in Everyday Life”
“When you're a big money earner and your husband isn't, it makes you question how feminine you are. I felt I was less feminine than if I was a supporting wife, or a second fiddle, or 'Mrs. Higgins.”
“Children have an unerring instinct for knowing when they are being patronized. They go immediately on the defensive against head-patting adults who treat them like strange beings.”
“I think well-read people - the world is open to them.”
“I think the brutality is important to convey as part of the story, to see how brutal it is to have these kids in battle with one another.”

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