The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God (2006)
Context: Let's say there's a molecule that produces a religious experience... a natural molecule that the body produces whose function it is to produce religious experiences, at least on occasion?... So let's call it "theophorin"... What could the selective advantage of theophorin be?... to suit us for the quest that was, according to Dostoyevsky, to strive for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find someone to worship and obey.
“Indifference, if let alone, will produce obduracy; and obduracy, if let alone, will produce torment.”
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 344.
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“Behold the grass, the flowerets, and the shrubs
Which of itself alone this land produces.”
Canto XXVII, lines 134–135 (tr. Longfellow).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Purgatorio
“Do anything, but let it produce joy. Do anything, but let it yield ecstasy.”
Source: Tropic of Cancer
Listen, Marxist!
As quoted in "New French leader fires a broadside at Britain: You only care about the City of London, says President Hollande" http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2141040/Francois-Hollande-French-president-says-Britain-cares-City.html (8 May 2012), Daily Mail.
Source: 1850s, An Investigation of the Laws of Thought (1854), p. 37; Cited in: William Torrey Harris (1879) The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, p. 109
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 226
“Love turns, with little indulgence, to indifference or disgust: hatred alone is immortal.”
Source: On the Pleasure of Hating