Waorani Indians Quotes & Sayings

Do they sense it, these dead writers, when their books are read? Does a pinprick of light appear in their darkness? Is their soul stirred by the feather touch of another mind reading theirs? I do hope so. — Diane Setterfield

Noone has yet succeeded in inventing a philosophy at once credible and self-consistent. Locke aimed at credibility, and achieved it at the expense of consistency. Most of the great philosophers have done the opposite. A philosophy which is not self-consistent cannot be wholly true, but a philosophy which is self-consistent can very well be wholly false. The most fruitful philosophies have contained glaring inconsistencies, but for that very reason have been partially true. There is no reason to suppose that a self-consistent system contains more truth than one which, like Locke's, is more or less wrong. — Bertrand Russell

He sprang from the grass roots of the country clubs of America. — Alice Roosevelt Longworth

When a philosopher, scientist, or psychologist discusses the discrepancy between the actual and the ideal, he or she attempts to convince us with the tools of discursive thought ... An artist does it differently ... their primary approach is different, even though both groups, if you will, are investigating the actual, the ideal, and the discrepancy in between. — Stephen Dobyns

The resurrection was God the Father's way of authenticating all of the truths that were declared by Jesus. — R.C. Sproul

Chess is an easy game! — Deyth Banger

The media is not at all homogeneous in the way it tells us about war. — Bruce Jackson

One must be a living man and a posthumous artist. — Jean Cocteau

The most glorious reason you exist is for the proclamation of the glory of God to the ends of the world. And it's more than having a nice life. — David Platt