"Part of the rationalist ethos is binding yourself emotionally to an absolutely lawful reductionistic universe a universe containing no ontologically basic mental things such as souls or magic and pouring all your hope and all your care into that merely real universe and its possibilities, without disappointment."

-- Eliezer Yudkowsky

#Disappointment Quotes #Real Quotes #Ethos Quotes

“Love It, is to increase by forgetting. It's escape through a single being to mediocrity of all other. It's one more for trying to be less. It's become like everyone else in the belief that we become as a person. It is giving appointment to happiness in the palace of chance.”
“God is always near His people, but their sinful behavior may cause His presence to be grievous.”
“I knew I wanted to do something at the nexus of what I call global development and technology.”

Source : "Chris Hughes’s Act III — Jumo.com, A Social Platform For Global Volunteerism" by Jose Antonio Vargas, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 18, 2010.
“ALS does not affect cognitive process. Stephen Hawking, one of smartest people on the planet, has ALS. It rarely affects the eyes. It doesn't affect senses like hearing, taste and touch.”

Source : "Atlanta Radio Hosts Fired After Mocking Steve Gleason, ALS During ‘Mayhem In the AM’ Show" By Chris Greenberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 17, 2013.
“I'm a very private person. What I did in the past or what somebody heard me do or has a bootleg of me doing...well, if you have a bootleg, then I did it.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent.”
“I actually believe in simplicity as a way of life. My wife and I are considering moving into a yurt!”

Source : Joseph Monninger (2010). “Eternal on the Water”, p.354, Simon and Schuster
“The greatest achievement is selflessness. The greatest worth is self-mastery. The greatest quality is seeking to serve others. The greatest precept is continual awareness. The greatest medicine is the emptiness of everything. The greatest action is not conforming with the worlds ways. The greatest magic is transmuting the passions. The greatest generosity is non-attachment. The greatest goodness is a peaceful mind. The greatest patience is humility. The greatest effort is not concerned with results. The greatest meditation is a mind that lets go. The greatest wisdom is seeing through appearances.”

Source : "Perspectives on Mankind's Search for Meaning". Book by Walter Taminang, p. 63, 2008.

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