"I'm not gifted, but I'm not hopeless."

-- Norman Spinrad

#Hopeless Quotes #Gifted Quotes

“...any belief in supernatural creators, rulers, or influencers of natural or human process introduces an irreparable split into the universe, and prevents us from grasping its real unity. Any belief in Absolutes, whether the absolute validity of moral commandments, of authority of revelation, of inner certitudes, or of divine inspiration, erects a formidable barrier against progress and the responsibility of improvement, moral, rational, and religious.”
“I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels.”
“Sexes. One has the look of a wound, the other of something skinned.”
“I was proud to work with the great Gershwin, and I would have done it for nothing, which I did.”

Source : Howard Dietz (1974). “Dancing in the dark”
“Once the idea of a supernaturalistic creation is fully overcome, the idea returns that the universe must be self-organizing and therefore composed of self-moving parts. Also, insofar as dualistic assumptions are fully overcome and human experience is accepted as fully natural, it begins to seem probable that something analogous to our experience and self-movement is a feature of every level of nature.”

Source : David Ray Griffin (1989). “God and Religion in the Postmodern World: Essays in Postmodern Theology”, p.88, SUNY Press
“In the future, I see me as being my own artist and definitely not a ballad singer!”
“I believe that intelligence and rationality will always be primary no matter what shape sentient creatures take. To not think that would be to doubt the value of life itself.”

Source : Peter F. Hamilton (2009). “Pandora's Star”, p.645, Pan Macmillan
“It is not the reading of many books which is necessary to make a man wise or good; but well reading of a few.”

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