Arlindo De Souza Quotes

One reader of an early draft of this chapter complained at this point, saying that by treating the hypothesis of God as just one more scientific hypothesis, to be evaluated by the standards of science in particular and rational thought in general, Dawkins and I are ignoring the very widespread claim by believers in God that their faith is quite beyond reason, not a matter to which such mundane methods of testing applies. It is not just unsympathetic, he claimed, but strictly unwarranted for me simply to assume that the scientific method continues to apply with full force in this domain of truth.

Very well, let's consider the objection. I doubt that the defender of religion will find it attractive, once we explore it carefully.

The philosopher Ronaldo de Souza once memorably described philosophical theology as "intellectual tennis without a net," and I readily allow that I have indeed been assuming without comment or question up to now that the net of rational judgement was up. But we can lower it if you really want to.

It's your serve.

Whatever you serve, suppose I return service rudely as follows: "What you say implies that God is a ham sandwich wrapped in tin foil. That's not much of a God to worship!". If you then volley back, demanding to know how I can logically justify my claim that your serve has such a preposterous implication, I will reply: "oh, do you want the net up for my returns, but not for your serves?

Eith ~ Daniel C. Dennett

Velayudhan Nair says: 'Man, we go to the doctor.' Velayudhan Nair always began every sentence with Man, for he had been to Bombay. In Colaba every De Souza says: Man. This they learned from the P & O ships. And P & O ships touch Plymouth. Do they say 'Man' there, one wonders.

'So, man, we go to the doctor,' he repeated.

'Mr Man, I come,' said Govindan Nair. He sometimes used Mister to show he too could be elegant. He called his son Mr Shridhar. ('Mr Shridhar, go and get me a chew,' 'Mr Shridhar, the thing that father puffs is wanted,' etc. etc. Mr Shridhar therefore brought the chew tobacco or that which father puffs, according to orders.) ~ Raja Rao

Father, if it is Your will, take this cup away from Me; nevertheless not My will, but Yours, be done ~ Angela De Souza

He obliterates things, she realized. He shatters them. They think they've won because he's a bit vague and he waffles, but that only goes so far. It's his shell, like a tortoise, if a tortoise was soft on the outside and dangerous on the inside. That's how the Time War ended: he got to the bottom of his patience, and he took two entire civilisations out of the universe and lock them away, and one of them was his own. That's how sharp his sense of obligation is.
And he lives like that. He does it all the time. ~ Nick Harkaway

What is the hope that can give meaning to life? Without some form of hope, the Holy Father argues that life becomes tedious and potentially burdersome, even if it is marked by material influence and technical progress. The person without hope finds himself in an existential difficulty: For what enduring purpose am I clinging to this life that I love and do not want to lose? ~ Raymond J. De Souza

'Without the help of mathematics,' the wise man continued, 'the art could not advance and all the sciences would perish.' ~ Julio Cesar De Mello E Souza

I would rather stand with God against man, than with man against God. ~ Aristides De Souza Mendes Do Amaral E Abranches

There had been three priests, proponents of so-called liberation theology. They had opposed the reactionary tide from Rome. And in all three cases the IEA had done the dirty work for Iwaszkiewicz and his Congregation. Corona, Ortega, and Souza were prominent progressive priests working in marginal dioceses, poor districts of Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paolo. They believed in saving man here on earth, not waiting for the Kingdom of Heaven. ~ Arturo Perez Reverte

Education is free. Though the education I refer to is not confined to a stuffy old building that still manages to retain its charm – don't get me wrong, I love my school – but it's out there in the real world. Waiting to be experienced. Waiting for the curious young minds of tomorrow to free themselves from the shackles of ignorance and transcend above everyday like-minded thoughts and uncover the mysteries of tomorrow. ~ Anika De Souza

Only those works which are well-written will pass to posterity: the amount of knowledge, the uniqueness of the facts, even the novelty of the discoveries are no guarantees of immortality ... These things are exterior to a man but style is the man himself. ~ Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon

Men do not change. They unmask themselves. ~ Germaine De Stael

Unlike at the Academy or the Lyceum, women, some of them concubines and mistresses, as well as a few slaves, joined the conversation; further, many of the students here had arrived without academic credentials in mathematics or music, de rigueur for entry to the other Athenian schools of higher learning. Everyone in the Garden radiated earnestness and good cheer. The subject under discussion was happiness. ~ Epicurus

Man's most valuable faculty is his imagination. ~ Madame De Stael

Once upon a time there was a little prince who lived on a planet scarcely bigger than himself and who had need for a friend. ~ Antoine De Saint Exupery

Occasionally, human beings are briefly de-animated, and the stories of people who are briefly de-animated that interest me the most are those having to do with the cold. ~ Mark Roth

Austrians were allowed to paper over their pasts and portray themselves as unwilling participants. They felt sorry for themselves, and for the proud family names sullied with the taint of Nazi collaboration. The Cold War began in earnest, and the West was eager to hang on to Austria. A 1948 amnesty brought a premature end to Austrian de-Nazification. Austrians began to deny their jubilant welcome of Hitler and to claim that Austria had been "occupied" by Germany, like ~ Anne-Marie O'Connor

Leaders should leave behind them assets and a legacy. ~ Max De Pree

She still loved him, she would always love him, but it was the kind of love that was muted, safely seen through the rear-view window, like a place you used to call home but no longer visited. There would always be a wound there, but the healing had begun. ~ Melissa De La Cruz

A light hand is one which never feels the contact of the bit with the bars. ~ Francois Robichon De La Gueriniere

In the birth of societies it is the chiefs of states who give it its special character; and afterward it is this special character that forms the chiefs of state. ~ Baron De Montesquieu

The wounds of self-love turn incurable when the oxide of self-love gets into them. ~ Honore De Balzac

Eggs I must instantly have!" she announced. "And Lope de Vega I will not have, though in general a fine poet, but not in the kitchen! ~ Georgette Heyer

For in truth habit is a violent and treacherous schoolmistress. She establishes in us, little by little, stealthily, the foothold of her authority; but having by this mild and humble beginning settled and planted it with the help of time, she soon uncovers to us a furious and tyrannical face against which we no longer have the liberty of even raising our eyes. ~ Michel De Montaigne

The proof is in the pudding. ~ Miguel De Cervantes

The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality. ~ Alexis De Tocqueville

First dates are great ways to see how someone acts when putting his best foot forward. ~ Amy Leigh Mercree

There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline. ~ Michel De Montaigne

First the fact that the only items on open display seem to be tampons, breast pumps, and douches, making one feel as a female more soiled and wretched than even two thousand years of Catholic catechism could do. ~ Belle De Jour

We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes. ~ Malcolm De Chazal

It requires more than mere genius to be an author. ~ Jean De La Bruyere

In being meaning, you naturally find meaning in everything. ~ John De Ruiter

There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author. ~ Marquis De Sade

Happiness is impossible for longer than 15 minutes. We are the descendants of creatures who, above all else, worried. ~ Alain De Botton

The origins and travels of our purchases remain matters of indifference, although to the more imaginative at least a slight dampness at the bottom of a carton, or an obscure code printed along a computer cable, may hint at processes of manufacture and transport nobler and more mysterious, more worthy of wonder and study, than the very goods themselves. ~ Alain De Botton

Experience teaches that what is feasible at the beginning is sometimes harmful as things go on, or subject to troublesome inconveniences ~ Vincent De Paul

Never cry in front of these men. Never cry. Ever. It's only hair. Hair will grow back. ~ Tatiana De Rosnay

I was afraid... I am afraid of loving you, knowing that someday you will go and leave me here. ~ Danielle L. Jensen

School was rough for me. I was a good student in middle school, but high school wasn't so fun. I still pulled through, though! I excelled in art, fashion, history and English literature - anything creative. Math and science I struggled a bit more in. ~ India De Beaufort

Artistic accounts involve severe abbreviations of what reality will force upon us. ~ Alain De Botton

The profit we possess after study is to have become better and wiser. ~ Michel De Montaigne

Facts, my dear Sancho, are the enemy of truth. ~ Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

We are always bored by the very people by whom it is vital not to be bored. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld