"Human consciousness is too obscure a mystery to itself for us to script our own lives."

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Source : Robert W. Jenson (2014). “Theology as Revisionary Metaphysics: Essays on God and Creation”, p.55, Wipf and Stock Publishers

Robert Jenson

#Scripts Quotes #Mystery Quotes #Consciousness Quotes

“Intelligence is a moral category.”
“Topics of conversation among the multitude are generally persons, sometimes things, scarcely ever principles.”

Source : William Benton Clulow (1843). “Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion”, p.168
“I think when I was two years old in the sandbox. I think I formulated my basic philosophy there, and I haven't really had to alter it very much ever since”
“Every man must be for the United States or against it. There can be no neutrals in this war, only patriots - or traitors.”

Source : Last public speech before his death, Chicago, Illinois, May 1, 1861.
“Blackbirds are the cellos of the deep farms.”

Source : 'Green Mountain, Black Mountain' (1982)
“I have been an unabashed fan of NPR for many years, and have stolen untold excellent ideas from its programming.”
“Can I be blamed for wanting a real body, to put my arms around? Without it I too am disembodied. I can listen to my own heartbeat against the bedsprings...but thereâ€™s something dead about it, something deserted.”
“I don't go into it trying to be this or that because that completely taints and corrupts the work that you're trying to do. But, I'm thankful and that definitely was a surprise. Hopefully, I'll keep doing stuff that remains interesting and fun for the audience.”

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