Vertendre Quotes & Sayings

Does trying to understand the universe at all betray a lack of humility? I believe it is true that humility is the only just response in a confrontation with the universe, but not a humility that prevents us from seeking the nature of the universe we are admiring. If we seek that nature, then love can be informed by truth instead of being based on ignorance or self-deception. If a Creator God exists, would He or She or It or whatever the appropriate pronoun is, prefer a kind of sodden blockhead who worships while understanding nothing? Or would He prefer His votaries to admire the real universe in all its intricacy? I would suggest that science is, at least in part, informed worship. — Carl Sagan

It'd be a poor kind of world where there was just one explanation for things.
Rhiow — Diane Duane

As all our wickedness consists in turning away from our Creator, so all our goodness consists in uniting ourselves with Him. — Alphonsus Liguori

Sitting there I had a vision of the world with nations, systems, economic blocks, hardening and consolidating; a world where it would become increasingly ludicrous even to talk about freedom, or the individual conscience. — Doris Lessing

There's a certain level of pageantry with 'Idol,' and in order to work the show, you kind of have to feed into it. — Adam Lambert

I collect human relationships very much the way others collect fine art. — Jerzy Kosinski

Anything is possible. Anything can be. — Shel Silverstein

But enough of phenomenology; it is nothing more than the solitary, endless monologue of consciousness, a hard-core autism that no real cat would ever importune. — Muriel Barbery