
You Can Lead an Atheist to Evidence, But You Can't Make Him Think (2009)
Source: Fang
You Can Lead an Atheist to Evidence, But You Can't Make Him Think (2009)
“Now how can you like a man without wanting him?”
she demands of herself aloud.
There is no answer. It is an article of faith with her. If you like a man, it has to be because you want him. Whoever heard of it any other way?
Section 32 (p. 101)
Venus Plus X (1960)
“Meeting someone you like and dating him is supposed to make you feel better, not worse.”
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An dem Armen geht mir der Mensch auf. Daher kann ich den Menschen nicht denken ohne das Mitleid mit ihm, ohne die Liebe zu ihm. Nicht das Universum, aber das sittliche Universum, das soziale Dasein der Menschen muß ich denken und lieben, wenn mein Denken Gottes: Liebe heißen darf.
Source: The Concept of Religion in the System of Philosophy (1915), p. 81 http://books.google.com/books?id=rZ9RAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA81
Variant: Do you love the cross because it makes much of you? Or do you love it because it enables you to enjoy and eternity of making much of God?
“He must feel that you choose to be with him, not that you need to be with him.”
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