#Loss Quotes #Literature Quotes #Causes Quotes
“Strictly from the perspective of human well-being, the richest-but-warmest world characterized by the A1FI scenario would probably be superior to the poorer-but-cooler worlds at least through 2085, particularly if one considers the numerous ways GDP per capita advances human well-being.”
“A thought is a screen, not a mirror; that is why you live in a thought envelope, untouched by Reality.”
“From my own being, and from the dependency I find in myself and my ideas, I do, by an act of reason, necessarily infer the existence of a God, and of all created things in the mind of God.”
“If, when you wake up in the morning, you can think of nothing but writing . . . then you are a writer.”
“You have to gain respect from your teammates. You have to earn it.”
“I think Americans like the practical; they like the human. And I like both those things myself, and I try and put them into my books.”
“Paraphrased: Among the degrees of the universal Manifestation, each sentient creature typically experiences an illusory sense of autonomy. At the same time, with or without the creature's awareness, the creature subsists eternally as an "immutable prototype" in the divine Knowledge.”
“I don't want to know what's good, or bad, or true. I let God worry about the truth. I just want to know the momentary fact about things. Life isn't good, or bad, or true. It's merely factual, it's sensual, it's alive. My idea of living sensual facts are you, a home, a country, a world, a universe, in that order.”
Source : "Fictional character: Lt. Commander Charles Edward Madison". "The Americanization of Emily", 1964.
Albert Schweitzer Theologian
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