Patricia Crone Quotes

#1. I'm cheating on the man I'm cheating on my husband with, Anna thought. I grow less decent every passing day.

Jill Alexander Essbaum

#2. It's remote! It's remote! It's uncontaminated! It's pure! It's a place where we can rule out that Muhammad got his ideas from others than God!

Patricia Crone

#3. Every kind of ignorance in the world all results from not realizing that our perceptions are gambles. We believe what we see and then we believe our interpretation of it, we don't even know we are making an interpretation most of the time. We think this is reality.

Robert Anton Wilson

#4. Since people of necessity see things from their own perspective, much of what they say adds up to comforting ideas or outright propaganda for themselves and the groups to which they belong.

Patricia Crone

#5. The way to innocence, to the uncreated and to God leads on, not back, not back to the wolf or to the child, but ever further into sin, ever deeper into human life.

Hermann Hesse

#6. There is nothing sacred about universality which makes the shared automatically better than the unshared.

Richard M. Rorty

#7. I am very proud and honour-red to be the England manager.

Fabio Capello

#8. I loved going to the library. It was the first time I ever saw Black newspapers and magazines like JET, Ebony, the Baltimore Afro-American, or the Chicago Defender. And I'll never forget my librarian.

John Lewis

#9. It is probably safe to say that in strongly hierarchical societies the only people to whom something approaching nationalist sentiments can be attributed in pre-modern times is the ruling elite, and then only at times.

Patricia Crone

#10. I think the choice of actors that we have is a little more varied and rich here in New York than in L.A.

Jerry Orbach

#11. It's hard to tell whether or
not hell's flames are getting
closer

Cory Basil

#12. I believe that am entire nation should not be judged by the wrongdoings of a few extremists.

Marjane Satrapi

#13. Most people, and certainly all members of Western civilization, are [...] born into a world which differs radically from that of their ancestors, with the result that most of human history is a closed book to them.

Patricia Crone

#14. The fact that the doctrine makes perfect sense even though Epiphanius keeps finding it incoherent suggests that he is giving a faithful account of it.

Patricia Crone

#15. we are here confronted with an irreducible oddity about all human societies: all are strung around figments of the human imagination.

Patricia Crone

#16. ideas generate action when they are believed regardless of whether they are true or not in our opinion

Patricia Crone

#17. In sports, I win because your better. You win because your better. That's it I don't accept excuses.

Kenneth De Guzman

#18. Creative memory is the historian's most subtle opponent.

Mason Cooley

#19. The world is much more interesting than any one discipline.

Edward Tufte

#20. People see things in the opposite way that I do. There are places that spirit, soul and emotion reach.

Shari Arison

#21. Reincarnation offers a better justification of evil than anything monotheism can offer, but it does so by blaming the victim and sanctifying the status quo.

Patricia Crone

#22. One can be deeply influenced by people to whom one is utterly hostile

Patricia Crone