"I admire our ancestors, whoever they were. I think the first self-conscious person must have shaken in his boots. Because as he becomes self-conscious, he's no longer part of nature. He sees himself against nature. He looks at the vastness of the universe and it looks hostile."

-- John Shelby Spong

#Thinking Quotes #Self Quotes #Vastness Quotes

“Beware of the community in which blasphemy does not exist: underneath, atheism runs rampant.”
“President Ahmadinejad is not the most powerful individual. At the same time, he is reflecting Iranian views right now, so it's difficult to neglect him.And in the context of domestic U.S. politics, it's very difficult to ignore him.”
“Our mountains will always be, our rivers will always be, our people will always be, The American invaders defeated, we will rebuild our land ten times more beautiful.”
“Mahmoud Darwish wrote that "extreme clarity is a mystery." That sounds right to me. I don't want anyone hunting for anything ancillary to the true mystery. If that means risking being thought of as glib or dull or banal or stupid or whatever, I guess that will just have to be the way it is.”

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“I bite my fingernails. That's probably not a good thing.”
“The problem with digital architecture is that an algorithm can produce endless variations, so an architect has many choices.”
“Most actors and actresses are performative as people.”
“Desperate? That can be a justification for all kinds of behavior.”

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