Joonas Donskoi Quotes & Sayings

Power works by division, influence by multiplication. Power, in other words, is a zero-sum game: the more you share, the less you have. Influence is a non-zero-sum game: the more you share, the more you have. — Jonathan Sacks

If I do not believe as you believe, it proves that you do not believe as I believe, and that is all that it proves. — Thomas Paine

If the Lord Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon his creation, I should have recommended something simpler.
Remarking on the complexity of Ptolemaic model of the universe after it was explained to him. — Alfonso X Of Castile

Myth is the nothing that is all. — Fernando Pessoa

I want to give you all of me. But will you want all of me when you realize I'm in pieces? — Jeannine Allison

The philosopher's hesitation about language is a chastening reminder that we ought not place too much faith in whatever our religious construct is. When the construct fails us, as it surely will, we will remember that there was presumption in giving our heart so wholly to whatever it was we had said about God anyway. And when the construct fails us, maybe we will glimpse the God beneath the picture we had faithfully, longingly, lovingly made. Hush. In this poverty of expression, thou findest that He is all. — Lauren F. Winner