Verzeichnis Deutscher Quotes & Sayings

If God were to exist for the entire humanity, he would be profoundly vile, as he allows the existence of unfathomable sin, stupidity, madness, and misery for no reason than his own despicable enjoyment. God exists though, not for all humanity, but for a one chosen man - a philosopher - who is bound to answer the greatest philosophical question, the question about the nature of the questioner's existence, which progressively quenches the divine vanity. — Kedar Joshi

A spiritual voice is urgently needed to underline the fact that global warming is already causing human anguish and mortality in our nation and abroad, and much more will occur in the future without rapid action. — Bill McKibben

The fact is that if you have not developed language, you simply don't have access to most of human experience, and if you don't have access to experience, then you're not going to be able to think properly. — Noam Chomsky

Alexa and the other guests, and perhaps even Georgina, all understood the fleeing from war, from the kind of poverty that crushed human souls, but they would not understand the need to escape from the oppressive lethargy of choicelessness. They would not understand why people like him who were raised well fed and watered but mired in dissatisfaction, conditioned from birth to look towards somewhere else, eternally convinced that real lives happened in that somewhere else, were now resolved to do dangerous things, illegal things, so as to leave, none of them starving, or raped, or from burned villages, but merely hungry for for choice and certainty. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The great goal of the backlash is to nurture a cultural class war, and the first step in doing so, as we have seen, is to deny the economic basis of social class. After all, you can hardly deride liberals as society's "elite" or present the GOP as the party of the common man if you acknowledge the existence of the corporate world the power that creates the nation's real elite, that dominates its real class system, and that wields the Republican Party as its personal political system. — Thomas Frank

Ari felt like, Hellooo, I have wings! I turn into a wolf! Blending is out is out of the question! — James Patterson

You can't come to a new point of view until you realize what your brainwashing has been. — Morton T. Kelsey

When we opened our eyes, we saw bedrock exposed in the walls of the crater. — Steven Squyres

I like tall girls because I like someone to look up to. — Davy Jones

Your confidence in the people, and your doubt about them, are closely related to your self-confidence and your self-doubt. — Khalil Gibran

There is only one calamity: ignorance. And there is only one solution: enlightenment. — Jaggi Vasudev

The nerves are good ... they keep you on point and they keep you not getting overconfident. — Myles Jury

I am also very excited by the way in which we can see Paul wrestling not only with his Jewish world and its scriptures but also, by clear implication, with philosophical and political issues that were 'out there' at the time. The thing is that for Paul this is all part of the same larger, whole vision of God and God's purposes. Watching how everything comes together is an intellectual treat of the first order - as well as a spiritual and practical challenge to me personally and to the church ... — N. T. Wright

But I'm alone on my throne All these riches — Nicki Minaj