David Sloan Wilson Quotes

#1. Religions exist primarily for people to achieve together what they cannot achieve alone. - David Sloan Wilson, Darwin's Cathedral

Daniel C. Dennett

#2. Circumstances that weigh you down and obstacles that block your path are God's way of building spiritual muscle. Shortcuts and escape routes won't build the stamina you'll need to complete the course.

Deb Brammer

#3. There are gods, but there is no God; and all gods become devils eventually.

Robert Anton Wilson

#4. Bodily exercises are to be done discreetly; not to be taken evenly and alike by all men.

Thomas A Kempis

#5. I love living in London.

Trevor McDonald

#6. Because the artist deals in future realities, he always seeks improvements or changes in the existing reality. This makes the artist, inevitably and invariably, a rebel against the status quo. The artist, day by day, by postulating the new realities of the future, accomplishes peaceful revolution.

L. Ron Hubbard

#7. Beautiful breezes in ugly parts of town give hope to those who want to be free.

Darnell Lamont Walker

#8. A hero worn out by his struggle, one who had sacrificed his youth - that was how he might present himself, not without effect. And it was true, in a way. He was physically brave, he had ideals, he was born a peasant and knew what it was to be despised. And she too, just now, had been despising him.

Alice Munro

#9. All that I have to say has already crossed your mind,' said he. "'Then possibly my answer has crossed yours,' I replied.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#10. Near the bottom, somebody fell, and rolled down. Somebody else said it was Copperfield. I was angry at that false report, until, finding myself on my back in the passage, I began to think there might be some foundation for it.

Charles Dickens

#11. I looked at No Child Left Behind after it was enacted and saw what happened and saw the expansion of the federal government and the role of education. And I said, you know, that was - that's not what I believe in.

Rick Santorum

#12. It takes a great deal of courage and independence to decide to design your own image instead of the one that society rewards, but it gets easier as you go along.

Germaine Greer

#13. It is always necessary to jump up and down on the scaffold of knowledge to make sure it is solid. If you are skeptical about a scientific claim, then jump up and down on it as hard as you can until you expose a weakness or convince yourself that it is solid.

David Sloan Wilson

#14. I was a very poor young black boy in New Orleans, just a face without a name, swimming in a sea of poverty trying to survive.

Tyler Perry

#15. It has everything to do with Rotterdam. America's oil addiction is a sickness that's killing the patient. Christ, Americans would rather send soldiers to war than carpool to work.

Barry Eisler

#16. Selfishness beats altruism within groups. Altruistic groups beat selfish groups. Everything else is commentary.

David Sloan Wilson

#17. I really like to have a bit of direction, you know?

Caroline Corr

#18. True success, true happiness lies in freedom and fulfillment.

Dada Vaswani