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Events of human origin are uncertain, but all is regulated and governed by the incalculable power of God, inspiring us not through drunken fury nor by frantic movement, but through the influences of the stars. ”
Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object. ”
Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be. ”
I've always been interested in the relationship between total external surround, culture, the political matrix, technology, etc., and the internal human consciousness. ”
Good generalship is the realisation that you've got to figure out how to accomplish your mission with the minimum loss of human life. ”
Good generalship is a realization that... you've got to try and figure out how to accomplish your mission with a minimum loss of human life. ”
I can stand in a crystal stream without another human around me and cast all day long, and if I never catch a single fish, I can come home and still feel like I had a wonderful time. It's the being there that's important. ”
Obsession is the single most wasteful human activity, because with an obsession you keep coming back and back and back to the same question and never get an answer. ”
At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear. It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us. You can love completely without complete understanding. ”
I was critical of the Israeli government, however, for not being prepared for the move. One does not uproot thousands of people without planning in advance what will be done with them. This was a political and human error in which the government functioned poorly. ”