"The heart must be kept tender and pliable; otherwise agnosticism converts to skepticism. In such a case, the value of apologetics is voided, for apologetics is aimed at persuading doubters, not at refuting the defiant. He who demands a kind of proof that the nature of the case renders impossible, is determined that no possible evidence shall convince him."

-- Edward John Carnell

#Heart Quotes #Demand Quotes #Doubters Quotes

“The propensity to intellectualize is itself both essential and dangerous. I think in our modern world we are much more aware of its essential character than of its dangers, and that is why I think of it as being an expression of transcendence.”

Source : "Do Muslims Belong in the West? An Interview with Talal Asad". Interview with Hasan Azad, www.eutopiainstitute.org. February 13, 2015.
“I just wanted to play a cowboy for a long time.”
“Take a moment think who would actually miss you if you deactivate all your social networking accounts, whatsapp, BBM etc”
“I don't even know what my natural colour is. Natural? What is natural? What is that? I do not believe in totally natural for women. For me, natural has something to do with vegetables.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Too-lateness, I realized, has nothing to do with age. Itâ€™s a relation of self to the moment. Or not, depending on the person and the moment. Perhaps there even comes a time when itâ€™s no longer too late for anything. Perhaps, even, most times are too early for most things, and most of life has to go by before itâ€™s time for almost anything and too late for almost nothing. Nothing to lose, the present moment to gain, the integration with long-delayed Now.”

Source : Russell Hoban (1999). “A Russell Hoban omnibus”, Indiana Univ Pr
“They trespassed upon my thoughts. They were intruders whose knowledge of life was to me an irritating pretense, because I felt so sure they could not possibly know the things I knew. Their bearing, which was simply the bearing of commonplace individuals going about their business in the assurance of perfect safety, was offensive to me like the outrageous flauntings of folly in the face of a danger it is unable to comprehend. I had no particular desire to enlighten them, but I had some difficulty in restraining myself from laughing in their faces, so full of stupid importance.”
“You don't know what it's like to wake up in the middle of the night, Scared at the thought of kissing razors”
“If a power station were to be built down the road, I'd prefer a nuclear plant over an oil burner, and definitely over a coal burner. We simply have to lessen our consumption of fossil fuels.”

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