"The sick in soul insist that it is humanity that is sick, and they are the surgeons to operate on it. They want to turn the world into a sickroom. And once they get humanity strapped to the operating table, they operate on it with an ax."

-- Eric Hoffer

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“You should always take a religion at its best and not at its worst, from its highest teachings and not from the lowest practices of some of its adherents.”
“I suspect that in every good marriage there are times when love seems to be over.”
“There is nothing to be learned from the second kick of a mule.”
“To look for a single general theory of how to decide the right thing to do is like looking for a single theory of how to decide what to believe.”

Source : Thomas Nagel (1991). “Mortal Questions : Canto”, p.135, Cambridge University Press
“public work brings a vicarious but assured sense of immortality. We may be poor, weak, timid, in debt to our landlady, bullied by our nieces, stiff in the joints, shortsighted and distressed; we shall perish, but the cause endures; the cause is great.”
“Faith is not an art. Faith is not an achievement. Faith is not a good work of which some may boast while others can excuse themselves with a shrug of the shoulders for not being capable of it. It is a decisive insight of faith itself that all of us are incapable of faith in ourselves, whether we think of its preparation, beginning, continuation, or completion. In this respect believers understand unbelievers, skeptics, and atheists better than they understand themselves. Unlike unbelievers, they regard the impossibility of faith as necessary, not accidental ...”

Source : "A Karl Barth Reader".
“Fear will keep you alive; indifference won't.”
“I would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director.”

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