Shin Okazaki Quotes & Sayings

Christ subjected himself to the law of the seed in the earth, to the law of rest and growth. He was "one of the children of the year," growing through rest, secret in his mothers womb, receiving the warmth of the sun through her, living the life of dependence, helplessness, littleness, darkness, and silence which, by a mystery of the Eternal Law, is the life of natural growth. — Caryll Houselander

When people believe a conclusion is true, they are also very likely to believe arguments that appear to support it, even when these arguments are unsound. — Daniel Kahneman

If I can't picture it, I can't understand it. — Albert Einstein

If it's really true, that the museum at Liberty University has dinosaur fossils which are labelled as being 3000 years old, then that is an educational disgrace. It is debauching the whole idea of a university, and I would strongly encourage any members of Liberty University who may be here ... to leave and go to a proper university. — Richard Dawkins

If you fill your mind with a beautiful thought, there will be no room in it for an ugly one. - King Amor — Frances Hodgson Burnett

[...] the primal, animal sense of 'the other,' which may have evolved for the detection of threat, can take on a lofty, even transcendent function in human beings, as a biological basis for religious passion and conviction, where the 'other,' the 'presence,' becomes the person of God. — Oliver Sacks

He seemed to be trying to find his way somewhere, but had forgotten where. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I don't ask writers about their work habits. I really don't care. Joyce Carol Oates says somewhere that when writers ask each other what time they start working and when they finish and how much time they take for lunch, they're actually trying to find out, "Is he as crazy as I am?" I don't need that question answered. — Philip Roth

The change from atoms to bits is irrevocable and unstoppable. Why now? Because the change is also exponential - small differences of yesterday can have suddenly shocking consequences tomorrow. — Nicholas Negroponte

If you look at total numbers in the working and middle class, men still on average make more than women. — Hanna Rosin

I've read a couple of reviews that say I'm getting harder in my old age but I don't think that's true at all. I think that you can't help but become a little cynical about life and love but I'm still a romantic, I'm still an idealist. — Madonna Ciccone