"Our general repression of matters disgusting prevents us facing up to a serious health problem. If we are the 'god that shits,' then we are in full flight from ourselves. I even wonder whether religion itself and the whole idea of a god is produced by our self-disgust."

-- Colin McGinn

#Self Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Matter Quotes

“Knowledge is a tool, and like all tools, its impact is in the hands of the user.”

Source : "The Lost Symbol". Book by Dan Brown, (Trish Dunne, Ch. 18), 2009.
“When I was a kid, I was trendier. I'd wear anything. I was in love beads and platforms.”
“Naked power has its limitations, since power is a generator of corruption and corruption in its turn tends to dilute the effectiveness of power.”
“My feet ain't got nothing to do with my nickname, but when folks get it in their heads that a feller's got big feet, soon the feet start looking big.”
“There was an aura about him (Joe DiMaggio). He walked like no one else walked. He did things so easily. He was immaculate in everything he did. Kings of State wanted to meet him and be with him. He carried himself so well. He could fit in any place in the world.”
“The world of ideas which it [mathematics] discloses or illuminates, the contemplation of divine beauty and order which it induces, the harmonious connexion of its parts, the infinite hierarchy and absolute evidence of the truths with which it is concerned, these, and such like, are the surest grounds of the title of mathematics to human regard, and would remain unimpeached and unimpaired were the plan of the universe unrolled like a map at our feet, and the mind of man qualified to take in the whole scheme of creation at a glance.”

Source : James Joseph Sylvester (1908). “The Collected Mathematical Papers: (1870-1883)”
“Man is ***** religiosus, by 'nature' religious: as much as he needs food to eat or air to breathe, he needs a faith for living.”
“She was pleased to have him come and never sorry to see him go.”

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