"I know paradise has many gates, just as hell does. One has to learn to distinguish between them, or one is lost."

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Source : FaceBook post by Henning Mankell from Sep 12, 2012

Henning Mankell

#Doe Quotes #Paradise Quotes #Hell Quotes

“The indispensability argument seeks to assimilate the epistemology of metaphysical statements to the epistemology of statements that are obviously empirical. I think it fails to achieve this goal. The argument does not refute the Carnapian thesis that scientific theories and metaphysical claims differ epistemologically - observations can provide evidence for the former, but not for the latter.”
“Why are entire flocks of industrial birds dying at once? And what about the people eating those birds? Just the other day, one of the local pediatricians was telling me he's seeing all kinds of illnesses that he never used to see. Not only juvenile diabetes, but inflammatory and autoimmune diseases that a lot of the docs don't even know what to call. And girls are going through puberty much earlier; and kids are allergic to just about everything, and asthma is out of control. Everyone knows it's our foods... Kids today are the first generation to grow up on this stuff...”
“Trump is, to some extent, redefining what we think of as polarization in this country. Where polarization has been seen as ideological, it is now being seen almost as behavioral.”

Source : Source: www.politico.com
“Nothing is important save the spiritual state that enables one to subjectify one's thoughts to a sensation and to think only of the sensation, all the while searching to express it.”

Source : Private Journal - A collage of notes and images, sketches kept 1888-1895 & 1907 to 1940, September 6, 1890.
“The universe is continually at its work of restructuring itself at a higher, more complex, more elegant level. The novelty, the new, more complex order, doesn't emerge from the present in a steady stream, nor at all places at the same rate. It comes, as all things do, in rhythmic waves; there will always be times and places of scarcity and stagnation and retrogression. Still, the long-term direction is clear. The intention of the universe is evolution.”
“Judge not others unless you're prepared to be judged!”
“Desire something and don't just care what you have to go through to get it.”
“I love to go to Washington - if only to be near my money.”

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