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- I think that fiction has a part to play in urging us, as a species, toward compassion,
- Each of us is born with a series of built-in confusions that are probably somehow Darwinian. These are: (1) we're central to the universe (that…
- Now, we don't really believe these things - intellectually we know better - but we believe them viscerally, and live by them, and they cause…
- Since, according to me, your life is going to be a gradual process of becoming kinder and more loving: Hurry up. Speed it along. Start…
- I think in our time, you know, so much of the information we get is pre-polarized. Fiction has a way of reminding us that we…
- Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people good or bad?…
- Developing our sympathetic compassion is not only possible but the only reason for us to be here on earth.
- Reading is a form of prayer, a guided meditation that briefly makes us believe we're someone else, disrupting the delusion that we're permanent and at…
- Sometimes I think fiction exists to model the way God might think of us, if God had the time and inclination to do so.
- It would be so weird if we knew just as much as we needed to know to answer all the questions of the universe. Wouldn't…
- What good the prophet in the wilderness may do is incremental and personal. It's good for us to hear someone speak the irrational truth. It's…
- I don't think much new ever happens. Most of us spend our days the same way people spent their days in the year 1000: walking…
- Vonnegut's war was necessary. And yet it was massacre and screaming and confusion and blood and death. It was the mammoth projection outward of the…
- I have a sense that God is unfair and preferentially punishes his weak, his dumb, his fat, his lazy. I believe he takes more pleasure…
- I could actually care less about the poor. We have some living near us, and pee-yew. They are always coming and going to their three…
More Us Quotes
- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave. — Mahmoud Abbas
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong