Fortune Quote #2861

An improbable opinion has to submit sooner or later to correction. But the
statements of religion are the most improbable of all and yet they persist
for thousands of years. Their wholly unexpected vitality proves the
existence of a sufficient cause which has so far eluded scientific
investigation. -- Carl Gustav Jung

Fortune Quote #2860

A miracle is something that arouses man's wonder precisely because it
seems inexplicable. -- Carl Gustav Jung

Fortune Quote #2859

If, in physics, one seeks to explain the nature of light, nobody expects
that as a result there will be no light. But in the case of psychology
everybody believes that what it explains is explained away. -- Carl
Gustav Jung

Fortune Quote #2858

I'm no longer as young as I was, but I can tell you this, you never miss
an opportunity to piss, to eat, or to get half an hour's shut-eye.
-- Mr. Nancy (Neil Gaiman, "American Gods")

Fortune Quote #2857

That is the eternal folly of man. To be chasing after the sweet flesh,
without realizing that it is simply a pretty cover for the bones. Worm
food. At night, you're rubbing yourself against worm food. No offense
meant. -- Mr. Wednesday (Neil Gaiman, "American Gods")

Fortune Quote #2856

You cannot hope to bribe or twist Thank God! The British journalist. But,
seeing what the man will do Un-bribed, there's no occasion to. --
Humbert Wolfe

Fortune Quote #2855

If the Coastal Republic had believed in the _existence_ of virtue, it
could at least have aspired to hypocrisy. -- Neal Stephenson, "The
Diamond Age"

Fortune Quote #2854

This is how easily the pit opens This is how one foot sinks into the
ground -- Rita Dove, Mother Love

Fortune Quote #2853

I would give my right arm to be ambidextrous. -- Yogi Berra

Fortune Quote #2852

In choosing to enslave other men it is impossible not to concede the
justice of one's own enslavement. -- Harry Jaffa