"Scientific reason, with its strict conscience, its lack of prejudice, and its determination to question every result again the moment it might lead to the least intellectual advantage, does in an area of secondary interest what we ought to be doing with the basic questions of life."

-- Robert Musil

#Life Quotes #Determination Quotes #Intellectual Quotes

“I find it impossible to think of a picture save as a window, and my first concern about a window is to find out what it looks out on... and there is nothing I love so much as something which stretches away from me out of sight.”
“I was guaranteed a hundred thousand dollars a year for five years, which was big money in the early 60's. You think, acquiring that should cool you out, but for me it wasn't true.”
“Summer is a drag because even normal people become obsessed with their bodies. A bad bathing suit can humiliate you more tan anything else in life.”
“If you want to succeed, you must make your own opportunities as you go.”
“I don't know who named them swells. There's nothing swell about them. They should have named them awfuls.”
“Christians, for instance, are not, properly speaking, believers in religion; rather, they believe that Jesus of Nazareth, crucified under Pontius Pilate, rose from the dead and is now, by the power of the Holy Spirit, present to his church as its Lord.”

Source : David Bentley Hart (2014). “Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies”, p.8, Yale University Press
“The national strike of the miners in 1972 performed, I believe, a great service, not only to the miners, but the people in Britain today who wanted coal”
“I am doing the mountain climbing to empower women.”

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