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POPSJefferson - A new Quote - by a deeply religious nonbeliever dear clipper.. i would like 2 re-mark that these Quotes i try send from time 2 time, are an experiment 2collect sayings & maxims that may enhance wit wisdom & humor, and may correspond with the spirit of Einstein`s words: " I am a deeply religious nonbeliever. This is somewhat new kind of religion. What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility. This is a genuinely religious feeling that nothing to do with mysticism. I don`t try to imagine a personal God; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it."
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POPSLuis Borges - A new Quote (by a deeply religious non believer) " The great American writer Herman Melville says somewhere in The White Whale that a man ought to be “a patriot to heaven,” and I believe it is a good thing, this ambition to be cosmopolitan, this idea to be citizens not of a small parcel of the world that changes according to the currents of politics, according to the wars, to what occurs, but to feel that the whole world is our country. " —Jorge Luis Borges, “Homage to Victoria Ocampo”, in Borges en Su
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POPSA new Quote (by deeply religious nonbeliever) 1. the above quote is graven on Kazantzakis tombstone 2. " They think of me as a scholar, an intellectual, a pen-pusher. And I am none of them. When I write, my fingers get covered not in ink, but in blood. I think I am nothing more than this: an undaunted soul. " Words Nikos Kazantzakis used to describe himself in 1950.
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POPSA new Quote (by deeply religious nonbeliever) Whitman : " I CELEBRATE myself; And what I assume you shall assume; For every atom belonging to me, as good belongs to you. " Taklamakan : "Desert of Death" ; "place of no return" ; "if you go in you won`t come out"