Aaron Belz Quotes, Mean Quotes, Doe Quotes

I gravitate toward the larger worldview questions such as, Why are we here? What are we supposed to be doing? What does it mean to know another person? To love someone? Of course, those questions are sort of in the background as I'm playing with language in the foreground, but those are the informing questions.

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One does not know - cannot know - the best that is in one.

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Every ant knows the formula of its ant-hill, every bee knows the formula of its beehive. They know it in their own way, not in our way. Only humankind does not know its own formula.

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A writer's problem does not change. He himself changes and the world he lives in changes but his problem remains the same. It is always how to write truly and having found what is true, to project it is such a way that it becomes a part of the experience of the person who reads it.

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Khaddar does not displace a single cottage industry.

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Meaninglessness does not come from being weary of pain. Meaninglessness comes from being weary of pleasure.

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Every soul pursues the good and does whatever it does for its sake.

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When a person supposes that he knows, and does not know; this appears to be the great source of all the errors of the intellect.

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but a sanguine temper, though for ever expecting more good than occurs, does not always pay for its hopes by any proportionate depression. it soon flies over the present failure, and begins to hope again.

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The man does not live who is more devoted to peace than I am. None who would do more to preserve it.

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...a man does not die for business, but for ideals.

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Only as we mature does affection begin to depend on achievement.

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He who does little, but in a state to which God calls him, does more than he who labors much, but in a state which he has thoughtlessly chosen: a cripple limping in the right way is better than a racer out of it.

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Power does not consist in striking with force or with frequency, but in striking true.

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You need some knowledge to recognize knowledge, so where does the first knowledge come from?

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There is seven-eights of it under water for every part that shows. Anything you know you can eliminate and it only strengthens your iceberg. It is the part that doesn't show. If a writer omits something because he does not know it then there is a hole in the story.

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He who loves does not dispute: He who disputes does not love.

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Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.

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When a bishop at the first shot abandons the worship of Christ and rallies his flock round the altar of Mars, he may be acting patriotically... but that does not justify him in pretending...that Christ is, in effect, Mars.

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Dogma does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought.

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