"Out of the element of participation follows the certainty of faith; out of the element of separation follows the doubt in faith. And each is essential for the nature of faith. Sometimes certainty conquers doubt, but it cannot eliminate doubt. The conquered of today may become the conqueror of tomorrow. Sometimes doubt conquers faith, but it still contains faith. Otherwise it would be indifference."

-- Paul Tillich

#Faith Quotes #Doubt Quotes #Would Be Quotes

“The sculptor represents the transition from one pose to another he indicates how insensibly the first glides into the second. In his work we still see a part of what was and we discover a part of what is to be.”
“Proof, being the highest level of reproduction activity, has an important interiorization aspect: as Yuri Manin stresses in his book Provable and Unprovable, a proof becomes such only after it is accepted (as the result of a highly rigorous process) ... Manin describes the act of acceptance as a social act; however, the importance of its personal, psychological component can hardly be overestimated.”
“Brunettes are full of electricity.”
“One of the big things in television these days is there's no main title sequence anymore.”
“You can't manufacture inspiration, so a lot of it is still a waiting game for me. There's still a lot of mystery to songwriting. I don't have a method that I can go back to - they either come or they don't.”
“My number is 174517; we have been baptized, we will carry the tattoo on our left arm until we die.”

Source : Primo Levi (1996). “Survival In Auschwitz”, p.27, Simon and Schuster
“Was it Gorky who said: "If your children are no better than you are, you have fathered in vain, indeed you have lived in vain.”
“I feel like I've kind of gotten to a peaceful place in my heart.”

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