Moeder Teresa Quotes & Sayings

Free will is an idealization of human beings that makes the ethics game playable. Euclidean geometry requires idealizations like infinite straight lines and perfect circles, and its deductions are sound and useful even though the world does not really have infinite straight lines or perfect circles. The world is close enough to the idealization that the theorems can usefully be applied. Similarly, ethical theory requires idealizations like free, sentient, rational, equivalent agents whose behavior is uncaused, and its conclusions can be sound and useful even though the world, as seen by science, does not really have uncaused events. As long as there is no outright coercion or gross malfunction of reasoning, the world is close enough to the idealization of free will that moral theory can meaningfully be applied to it. — Steven Pinker

I did not realize what a gift I had been given until it was too late, forever too late. Must life always be that way? — Linda Collison

Power is not sufficient evidence of truth. — Samuel Johnson

The stone that is thrown into the air is none the worse for falling down, and none the better for going up. — Marcus Aurelius

I don't mean this, but I'm going to say it anyway. I don't really think of pop art and serious art as being that far apart. — Twyla Tharp

In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better. — Edward De Bono

By sort of combining the research of a lot of smart people, I came up with an equation for dread [dread=uncontrollability+unfamiliarity+imaginability+suffering+scale of destruction+unfairness]. The dread equation is a simplification, but it's a way to explain why we fear something so much when it is so unlikely. Part of it is the lack of control. That's why we're more scared of plane crashes than car crashes even though we know rationally which is more dangerous. — Amanda Ripley

If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself. You have a duty to worship God, not because He will be imperfect and unhappy if you do not, but because you will be imperfect and unhappy. — Fulton J. Sheen

Halt! ill-born rabble, follow him not nor pursue him, or ye will have to reckon with me in battle! — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

The woman I married could fool angels into believing she was one of them. — J.J. McAvoy