Quotes on Doe

A genius is a talented person who does his homework.

Forgiveness does not mean condoning what has been done. Forgiving means abandoning your right to pay back the perpetrator in his own coin.

I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.

The aphorism, the apothegm, in which I am the first among the Germans to be a master, are the forms of “eternity”; it is my ambition to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book — what everyone else does not say in a book.

When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.

Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature.

What would it mean if there were a theory that explained everything? And just what does "everything" actually mean, anyway? Would this new theory in physics explain, say the meaning of human poetry? Or how economics work? Or the stages of psychosexual development? Can this new physics explain the currents of ecosystems, or the dynamics of history, or why human wars are so terribly common?

The state does not function as we desired. A man is at the wheel and seems to lead it, but the car does not drive in the desired direction. It moves as another force wishes.

Your teaching must have the integrity of serious, sound words to which no one can take exception. If it does, no opponent will be able to find anything bad to say about us, and hostility will yield to shame.

Nobody can think straight who does not work. Idleness warps the mind.

There is no real teacher who in practise does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech.

Because the European does not know his own unconscious, he does not understand the East and projects it into everything he fears and despises in himself.

Meditation is the only way to overcome fear. There is no other way. Why does meditation help us overcome fear? In meditation we identify ourselves with the vast, with the Absolute. When we are afraid of someone or something, it is because we do not feel that particular person or thing is a part of us. When we have established conscious oneness with the Absolute, with the Infinite Vast, the everything there is part of us. And how can we be afraid of ourselves?

By abortion the Mother does not learn to love, but kills her own child to solve her problems. And, by abortion, that father is told that he does not have to take any responsibility at all for the child he has brought into the world. The father is likely to put other women to the same trouble. So abortion leads to more abortion.

"We see the world as 'we' are, not as 'it' is; because it is the "I" behind the 'eye' that does the seeing."

The more humble and obedient to God a man is, the more wise and at peace he will be in all that he does.

Three-fourths of the mistakes a man makes are made because he does not really know the things he thinks he knows.

To the extent math refers to reality, we are not certain to the extent we are certain, math does not refer to reality.

But however close we sometimes seem to that dark and final abyss, let no man of peace and freedom despair. For he does not stand alone.