"Orthodoxy: That peculiar condition where the patient can neither eliminate an old idea nor absorb a new one."

-- Elbert Hubbard

#Ideas Quotes #Peculiar Quotes #Orthodoxy Quotes

“Hubris and science are incompatible.”
“What will people say-in these words lies the tyranny of the world, the whole destruction of our natural disposition, the oblique vision of our minds. These four words hold sway everywhere.”
“But all my people, the Palestinians and the Arabs, wish me long life and freedom.”

Source : "Abu Abbas: from terrorist to peace advocate" by Rob Reynolds, www.cnn.com. May 10, 1996.
“I enjoy singing my songs in front of people. I enjoy being involved in making the artwork for albums and stupid stuff like that.”
“If you are fearful, a horse will back off. If you are calm and confident, it will come forward. For those who are often flattered or feared, the horse can be a welcome mirror of the best in human nature.”
“I have met a great celebrity, Madame Dudevant, known as George Sand... Her appearance is not to my liking. Indeed there is something about her which positively repels me... What an unattractive person La Sand is... Is she really a woman? I'm inclined to doubt it.”
“I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.”
“I can hope that this long sad story, this progression of priests and ministers and rabbis and ulamas and imams and bonzes and bodhisattvas, will come to an end. I hope this is something to which science can contribute ... it may be the most important contribution that we can make.”

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