"Biblical references about knowledge and good and evil often get tangled up."

-- James Rollins

#Biblical Quotes #Evil Quotes #Tangled Quotes

“We have come tardily to the tremendous task of cleaning up our environment. We should have moved with similar zeal at least a decade ago. But no purpose is served by post-mortems. With visionary zeal but the greatest realism, we must now address ourselves to the vast problems that confront us.”
“We become full human agents, capable of understanding ourselves, and hence of defining our identity, through our acquisition of rich human languages of expression.”

Source : Charles Taylor (1992). “The Ethics of Authenticity”, p.33, Harvard University Press
“There is no place for government to prohibit consumers from buying products the effect of which will be to harm themselves”
“If the modern spirit, whatever that may be, is disinclined towards taking the Lord's word at its face value (as I hear is the case), we may observe that Isaiah's testimony to the character of the masses has strong collateral support from respectable Gentile authority. Plato lived into the administration of Eubulus, when Athens was at the peak of its jazz-and-paper era, and he speaks of the Athenian masses with all Isaiah's fervency, even comparing them to a herd of ravenous wild beasts.”
“A real Christian in an odd number anyway. He feels supreme love for One whom he has never seen, talks familiarly every day to Someone he cannot see, expects to go to heaven on the virtue of Another, empties himself in order to be full, admits he is wrong so he can be declared right, goes down in order to get up, is strongest when he is weakest, richest when he is poorest, and happiest when he feels worst. He dies so he can live, forsakes in order to have, gives away so he can keep, sees the invisible, hears the inaudible, and knows that which passes knowledge.”
“Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.”
“Love is the pursuit of shadows ...”
“A heart can no more be forced to love than a stomach can be forced to digest food by persuasion.”

Source : "Nobel Laureates, 1901-2000". Book by Alan Symons (p.1), 2000.

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