#gm

God has judged me all my life. But that is God's privilege, my lady. Not yours. ↗

— Barbara Hambly

#religion #life

It would be very nice if there were a God who created the world and was a benevolent providence, and if there were a moral order in the universe and an after-life; but it is a very striking fact that all this is exactly as we are bound to wish it to be. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#religion #sigmund-freud #life

Ideas that require people to reorganize their picture of the world provoke hostility. ↗

— James Gleick

#chaos-theory #life #mathematics #paradigm #paradigm-shift

Being stigmatied by sex is being marked by its meaning in a human life of loneliness and imperfection, where some pain is indelible. ↗

— Andrea Dworkin

#misogyny #passion #sex #stigma #life

Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive. ↗

— George Eliot

#dogma #mistake #science #life

Tragic heroes are failed pragmatists. Their ends are unrealistic and their means are impractical. ↗

— Adam Phillips

#pragmatism #life

We acknowledge that being the person God made you cannot separate you from God's love. ↗

— John Green

#love

A religion, even if it calls itself a religion of love, must be hard and unloving to those who do not belong to it. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#sigmund-freud #love

It's so egotistical to believe that we know more about someone else's reality than they do, and such a waste of time. ↗

— Shreve Stockton

#judgment #reality #time #waste #love

Every morning, in his extreme loneliness, The Laughing Man [whose face had been disfigured in a tragic circumstance], stole off to the dense forest surrounding the bandits' hideout. There he befriended any number and species of animals: dogs, white mice, eagles, lions, boa constrictors, wolves. Moreover, he removed his mask and spoke to them, softly, melodiously, in their own tongues. They did not think him ugly. ↗

— J.D Salinger

#judgmental-hearts #the-laughing-man #love