"Mystics understand the roots of the Tao but not its branches; scientists understand its branches but not its roots. Science does not need mysticism and mysticism does not need science; but man needs both."

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Source : "The Tao of Physics". Book by Fritjof Capra, 1975.

Fritjof Capra

#Men Quotes #Roots Quotes #Doe Quotes

“Hell is the highest reward that the devil can offer you for being a servant of his.”

Source : Billy Sunday (1970). “Billy Sunday speaks”
“The Democratic Party has pretty much abandoned all the things that they cherish.”
“We can control our borders, we just choose not too.”
“Writing a novel- actually picking the words and filling in paragraphs- is a tremendous pain in the ass. Now that TV's so good and the Internet is an endless forest of distraction, it's damn near impossible. That should be taken into account when ranking the all-time greats. Somebody like Charles Dickens, for example, who had nothing better to do except eat mutton and attend public hangings, should get very little credit.”
“My child was not only carried by me, but by the universe.”
“Politics is the practical exercise of the art of self-government, and somebody must attend to it if we are to have self-government; somebody must study it, and learn the art, and exercise patience and sympathy and skill to bring the multitude of opinions and wishes of self-governing people into such order that some prevailing opinion may be expressed and peaceably accepted. Otherwise, confusion will result either in dictatorship or anarchy. The principal ground of reproach against any American citizen should be that he is not a politician. Everyone ought to be, as Lincoln was.”

Source : "Men and Policies: Addresses". Book by Elihu Root, ed. Robert Bacon and James B. Scott, p. 75, "Lincoln as a Leader of Men", 1924.
“Your wrinkles either show that you're nasty, cranky, and senile, or that you're always smiling.”
“I think the media is dangerously close to creating their own product. They used to cover the product, which was whatever's happening.”

Source : Source: www.campaignsandelections.com

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