Pathare Wisthare Quotes & Sayings

There is moss on the walls and the stain of thought and failure and waiting — Charles Bukowski

The same trend is noticeable in the scientific realm: research here is for its own sake far more than for the partial and fragmentary results it achieves; here we see an ever more rapid succession of unfounded theories and hypotheses, no sooner set up than crumbling to give way to others that will have an even shorter life - a veritable chaos amid which one would search in vain for anything definitive, unless it be a monstrous accumulation of facts and details incapable of proving or signifying anything. We refer here of course to speculative science, insofar as this still exists; in applied science there are on the contrary undeniable results, and this is easily understandable since these results bear directly on the domain of matter. — Rene Guenon

The mysterious sentence, "You are My Son; this day have I begotten You," may refer to the deep and secret Truth of God of the Eternal Filiation of our Lord, whatever that may be. But Paul quotes it in the 13th chapter of Acts as referring to His Resurrection. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Xenophon tells us that Socrates never neglected the body and did not praise those who did. We can imagine that it was because the physical body - volatile, unseen, and implicated in an automatized natural world - could seem so daemonic that entrusting life, both biological life and ethical life, to its dynamics could seem like ceding control of the human. — Brooke Holmes

This was sharing office space with wacko and bordering on ludicrous. — Kelly Moran

The Bible had been the weapon of choice in the spiritual gladiatorial arena of my youth. I knew how, wielded with intent and precision, the Bible can cut deeply, while on the one holding it can claim with impunity that this is from God. — Nadia Bolz-Weber

Almost everyone takes pleasure in repaying trifling obligations, very many feel gratitude for those that are moderate; but there is scarcely anyone who is not ungrateful for those that are weighty. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

I quit drinking. That was a big problem for a lot of years. Then after that, I just started feeling grateful again. — Billy Crystal

I am the scalpel that cuts out infection, and the heartbreak that makes men wiser. — Simon R. Green

No one ever went to prison because of bad grammar, but the prisons are full of people who are there because of emotional illiteracy. — Gay Hendricks

The way out is through the door. Why is it that no one will use this method? — Confucius

There's something known as the Uncanny Valley where things look a little too real and you're not quite sure what you're looking at. It becomes weird like it did in 'The Polar Express,' where the eyes seem so realistic, and yet you know it's animated. — Nolan North

He was not afraid. Not any more. Fear had died on the tree, as Shadow had died. There was no fear left, no hatred, no pain. Nothing left but essence. — Neil Gaiman

The Western societies which espouse free market capitalism survive by the pursuit of greed and, in their own way, like Communism, throw into leadership men and women (mostly men) who know how to gain, exert and manipulate power. — Davis McCaughey

John Huston was a superb master. He knew how to make good films. I did three things with him. One is called Independence. It plays in Philadelphia, for free. It's been playing there for 25 years. — Eli Wallach