Our minds sometimes see what our hearts wish were true.
Our minds sometimes see what our hearts wish were true.
When multiple explanations exist, the simplest is usually correct.
Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.
God is found in the collection of Many. . . rather than in the One.
The information was kept hidden for the same reason we keep matches from children. In the correct hands, fire can provide illumination... but in the wrong hands, fire can be highly destructive.
Cathedral terminology was like stage directions-totally counterintuitive.
Religion is flawed, but only because man is flawed.
Everything is possible. The impossible just takes longer.
My lawyers will fricassee your testicles for breakfast. And if you dare board my plane without a warrant, your spleen will follow.
Great minds are always feared by lesser minds.
The only difference between you and God is that you have forgotten you are divine.
Faith does not protect you. Medicine and airbags... Those are the things that protect you. God does not protect you. Intelligence protects you. Enlightenment. Put your faith in something with tangible results. How long has it been since someone walked on water? Modern miracles belong to science.. Computers, vaccines, space stations... Even the devine miracle of creation. Matter from nothing... In a lab. Who needs God? No! Science is God!
Religion is like language or dress. We gravitate toward the practices with which we were raised. In the end, though, we are all proclaiming the same thing. That life has meaning. That we are grateful for the power that created us.
Jabba resembled a giant tadpole, like the cinematic creature for whom he was nicknamed, the man was a hairless spheroid. As resident guardian angel of all NSA computer systems, Jabba marched from department to department, tweaking, soldering, and reaffirming his credo that prevention was the best medicine. No NSA computer had ever been infected under Jabba's reign; he intended to keep it that way.
Nothing in Christianity is original.
Imagine how different a world might be if more leaders took time to ponder the finality of death before racing off to war.
The power of human thought grows exponentially with the number of minds that share that thought.
Fear cripples faster than any implement of war.
Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.
Look, you runny-nosed little runt. You're going to back off right now, or I'm going to rip that safety pin out of your nose and pin your mouth shut.
Robert wondered if any of Harvard's revered Egyptologists had ever knocked on the door of a pyramid and expected an answer.
Knowledge grows exponentially. The more we know, the greater our ability to learn, and the faster we expand our knowledge base.
The truth, however, was stranger still.
God does not play dice with the universe!
Seek the goodness, become the goodness.D
Please accept this humble fax. My love for you is without wax.
Telling someone about what a symbol means is like telling someone how music should make them feel.
Knowledge is a tool, and like all tools, its impact is in the hands of the user.
This is systems security for the Central Intelligence Agency. We would like to know why you are attempting to hack one of our classified databases.
God, grant me strength to accept those things I cannot change.
Skepticism has become a virtue. Cynicism and demand for proof has become enlightened thought. Is it any wonder that humans now feel more depressed and defeated than they have at any point in human history?
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Who will guard the guards?
The Bible did not arrive by fax from heaven…The Bible is the product of man, my dear. Not of God. The Bible did not fall magically from the clouds. Man created it as a historical record of tumultuous times, and it has evolved through countless translations, additions, and revisions. History has never had a definitive version of the book.
Knowledge is power, and the right knowledge lets man perform miraculous, almost godlike tasks.
Throughout history, every period of enlightenment has been accompanied by darkness, pushing in opposition. Such are laws of nature and balance.
If it wasn't painfully difficult, you did it wrong!
The media is the right arm of anarchy.
As someone who had spent his life exploring the hidden interconnectivity of disparate emblems and ideologies, Langdon viewed the world as a web of profoundly intertwined histories and events. The connections may be invisible, he often preached to his symbology classes at Harvard, but they are always there, buried just beneath the surface.
The Pentacle - The ancients envisioned their world in two halves - masculine and feminine. Their gods and goddesses worked to keep a balance of power. Yin and Yang. When male and female were balanced, there was harmony in the world. When they were unbalanced there was chaos.
Langdon knew she was right and reluctantly made his way around the balcony, hugging the wall as he went.
Time is a river...and books are boats. Many volumes start down that stream, only to be wrecked and lost beyond recall in its sands. Only a few, a very few, endure the testings of time and live to bless the ages following.
It seemed there was always a close correlation between true believers and high body counts.
To fly or not to fly, that's the question.
Authors, he thought. Even the sane ones are nuts.
What really matters is what you believe.
Language can be very adept at hiding the truth.
To live in the world without becoming aware of the meaning of the world is like wandering about in a great library without touching the books.
Last week,he had become so enraged with a visiting scientist who had shown him undue pity that Kholer clambered to his feet and threw a clipboard at the man's head.
Anyone who said power was not addictive had never really experienced it.
By its very nature, history is always a one-sided account.
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