"Kant considers belief in God and immortality to be items of "faith" because he relates faith to the pursuit of ends - in this case, the highest good."

-- Allen W. Wood

#Belief Quotes #Immortality Quotes #Pursuit Quotes

“So apart from writing letters home to your fantasy girlfriends,"Ben says, walking backwards, "what do you guys do out here without television and phones?" "Men's business. Bit confidential," Griggs says patronisingly. "Wow, wish I were you," Ben says, shaking his head with mock regret. "All I'll be doing tonight is hanging out in Taylor's bedroom, lying on her bed, sharing my earphones with her, hoping she won't hog all the room because it's such a tiny space.”
“To the extent that tenure supports academic freedom, I support tenure. I want no person or system to have any power, real or apparent, to chill academic freedom.”
“The only unnatural sex act is that which you cannot perform.”

Source : Quoted in Barbara Rowes, The Book of Quotes (1979)
“When you have caught the rhythm of Africa, you find out that it is the same in all her music.”
“All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.”

Source : "Life of Emerson" by Richard Garnett, ch. 7, 1988.
“I'm somebody who plays the piano... sometimes”
“Toleration in religion was one of the great rights of man, and a man ought never to be deprived of what was his natural right.”

Source : "The Speeches of the Rt. Hon. C. J. Fox in the House of Commons. Volume IV" edited by J. Wright, (p. 192), 1815.
“We are all of us walking communities of bacteria. The world shimmers, a pointillist landscape made of tiny living beings.”

Source : Lynn Margulis, Dorion Sagan (1986). “Microcosmos: Four Billion Years of Evolution from Our Microbial Ancestors”, p.191, Univ of California Press

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