Gewoon Doen Quotes & Sayings

God seemed to have become a brand, a packaging, and people purchase this trusted brand with such faith and devotion that they no longer care who the vendor is. — Justin Villanueva

No man ever wrote more eloquently and luminously [than Heraclitus]. — Friedrich Nietzsche

...With the failure of the imagination to present form the mind discovers that it has the capacity to conceive of the infinite, and thus has the power to transcend everything that sense can measure and thus present. The sublime feeling in this case arises from the play between the finite nature of the senses and the infinite capacity of reason. — Nicholas Gane

Offerings for charity that Catholics from throughout the world sent to the Vatican were being used to plug up deficits created by a handful of Church officials who maneuvered the bureaucratic levers of the Holy See. — Gianluigi Nuzzi

Men rarely if ever dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child. — Robert A. Heinlein

Thinking deeply about your choices and actions from the stance of your future self can serve as both a motivational and a corrective force. — Cheryl Strayed

Real affection does not see anything in terms of 'rights', nor does it even care if it is reciprocated. It merely waits by the door and hopes."
From 'A Walking Shadow — E.M. Swift-Hook