“What a man can't remember doesn't exist for him.”
Source: The Bourne Identity
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Robert Ludlum11
Novelist 1927–2001Related quotes
“What the eye doesn't see and the mind doesn't know, doesn't exist.”
D.H. Lawrence book Lady Chatterley's Lover
Source: Lady Chatterley's Lover
“God is a hypothesis constructed by man to help him understand what existence is all about.”
Julian Huxley (1887–1975) English biologist, philosopher, author
The New Divinity (1964)
Context: God is a hypothesis constructed by man to help him understand what existence is all about.... To say that God is ultimate reality is just semantic cheating, as well as being so vague as to become effectively meaningless... Today the god hypothesis has ceased to be scientifically tenable, has lost its explanatory value and is becoming an intellectual and moral burden to our thought. It no longer convinces or comforts, and its abandonment often brings a deep sense of relief. Many people assert that this abandonment of the god hypothesis means the abandonment of all religion and all moral sanctions. This is simply not true. But it does mean, once our relief at jettisoning an outdated piece of ideological furniture is over, that we must construct some thing to take its place.
“The most pious man can't stay in peace
If it doesn't please his evil neighbor.”
Friedrich Schiller William Tell
Act IV, sc. iii
Wilhelm Tell (1803)