Quotation Groupings

Cogito ergo sum. Descartes

"I wish I could take you where I am right now." self

How, then, shall I respond to those who ask: "What was God doing before he made heaven and earth?" I don't answer facetiously, shrugging off the force of the question as a certain one is reported to have done. This one said, "He was preparing hell for those who pry too deep." St. Augustine of Hippo, Confessions Book 11, Chapter 12

"There are two settings for the water in Bongiorno, there is hot and there is 'Dear God where did my flesh go?!'" Brandon Becker

You can say anything in a philosophy class and someone is going to think it is brilliant. Dr. Eichhoefer

Confusion is contagious. Luis

The limit of an engineering major as his GPA approaches zero is equal to a business major. Pf. Delattre

I'm gonna use this toothpick to get the sugardaddy out of my teeth...I mean the sugarbaby! Bo Bonnie (awesomeness at Applebees)

I'm going to take this one step at a time, like a carpenter who builds stairs. Andy Bernard in 'the Office'

Right emotions will follow right actions. Pastor Phil Knauer

We have a position for you in housecleaning- someone else is going to use your telescope. Dr. Eichhoefer

I like rough walks. Dr. Eichhoefer

I don't have to outrun the bear, I just have to outrun you. 'Without a Paddle'

(In response to the comment that cola is my one vice) "Don't waste it then, a vice is a terrible thing to waste." Dr. Eichhoefer

"The poor can marry for love" A Knight's Tale

"If you take nature as a teacher she wil teach you exactly the lessons you had already decided to learn" C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

"If ever the book which I am not going to write is written it must be the full confession by Christendom of Christendom's specific contribution to the sum of human cruelty and treachery. Large areas of "the World" will not hear us till we have publicly disowned much of our past. Why should they? We have shouted the name of Christ and enacted the service of Moloch." C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

"Normalcy is the lowest common denominator" Self

"The statement that all knowledge must be either indubitable, incorrigible, or inferred from indubitable or incorrigible beliefs, is itself not indubitable or incorrigible, or inferred from one of these classes of beliefs. Therefore, it cannot constitute knowledge." Daniel Ryan Street

"We marry ourselves to the spirit of the times at the risk of widowhood, but we cannot refuse to consort with it either." G.K. Chesterton

"finitus non capax infiniti" the finite is incapable of [expressing] the infinite Sixteenth century maxim, quoted by Carl Raschke

"The Christmas story --- God having been born in a stable --- is a complete deconstruction of all the texts of messianicity that had preceded it." Carl Raschke

"Better to keep your mouth shut, and appear dumb. Than to open it and remove all doubt." attributed to Mark Twain

"You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you." C. S. Lewis

You can present the material, but you can't make me care. Calvin and Hobbes

"sola significatione" (by signification alone)

"Things are not merely as they appear to us; things are as we comprehend the factors and functions that enable them to appear in the first place." Carl Raschke on Jacques Derrida

"omne negatio est determinatio" (all negation is determination)

"One can hurl the damning epithet 'relativist,' which can signify just about anything. It is one of those terms like 'Communist' or 'fascist,' which aims to damn by its usage alone, rather than identifying what is actually troubling in an opponent's discourse." Carl Raschke

"fides quaerans intellectum" (faith seeking understanding)

'"Thinking the unthought" is what philosophy is all about.' Raschke on Heidegger

"Question: How many psychotherapists does it take to change a lightbulb?

Answer: One. But only if, deep down, the lightbulb is willing to change." Anonymous, quoted by Kevin Devlin

"Ecclesiastical Darwinianism" George Wood (referring to survival of the fittest and natural selection in ministry)

"Evil is still a four letter word, but thank God so is love" N.T. Wright

"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the Sun has risen, not only because I see it but because by it I see everything else." C.S. Lewis, 'Is Theology Poetry?' in Essay Collections

"It would be rash to say that there is any prayer which God never grants. But the strongest candidate is the prayer we might express in the single word encore. And how should the Infinite repeat Himself? All space and time are too little for Him to utter Himself in them once." C.S. Lewis, 'Letters to Malcolm'

"The greatest hazard of all, losing the self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss - an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc.-is sure to be noticed." Soren Kierkegaard, 'The Sickness Unto Death'