D. T. Max Quotes

Chess is a sport. The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory.

Let me not follow in the clamor of the world, but walk calmly in my path.

And Loplop, bird superior, has transformed himself into flesh without flesh and will dwell among us.

The role of the painter . . . is to project that which sees itself in him.

People resist a census, but give them a profile page and they'll spend all day telling you who they are.

Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts.

A politician wouldn't dream of being allowed to call a columnist the things a columnist is allowed to call a politician

The man who realizes his ignorance has taken the first step toward knowledge.

Can you imagine a life with no fear? What if faith, not fear, was your default reaction to threats?

I have been very lucky to find something I am good at and can make money at... Playing with Bruce was the embodiment of everything that a little kid could dream about.

He who is infatuated with Man leaves persons out of account so far as that infatuation extends, and floats in an ideal, sacred interest. Man, you see, is not a person, but an ideal, a spook.

Is it sin, which makes the worm a chrysalis, and the chrysalis a butterfly, and the butterfly dust?

Monk encouraged me to emancipate the drums from their subservient role as timekeepers.

Living well is the best revenge.If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.

If you knew Jesus was coming tomorrow, what would you do today? Then do it!

My advice to those who which to learn the art of scientific prophesy is not to rely on abstract reason, but to decipher the secret language of Nature from Nature's documents: the facts of experience.

You can't blame anyone else, ... , no one but yourself. You have to make your own choices and live every agonizing day with the consequences of those choices.

Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit.

When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.

Whenever known and sufficient causes are available, it is anti-scientific to discard them in favour of a hypothesis that can never be verified.

When you are seventeen you aren't really serious.

The organization of ofices follows the principle of hierarchy ... each lower office is under the control and supervision of a higher one

Where we might think of sin as slip-ups or missteps, God views sin as a godless attitude that leads to godless action.

You ever wake up in the middle of the night because a couple of cats are clawing each other to death outside your window? That's what it's like listening to you speak.

I choose love. No occasion justifies hatred; no injustice warrants bitterness, I choose love. Today I will love God and what God loves.

Philosophy is overwhelmingly complicated, its procedure depressingly slow.

People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo.

Relationships don't thrive because the guilty are punished but because the innocent are merciful.

Since our greatest need was forgiveness, God sent us a Savior. He became like us, so we could become like Him.

In the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul.

Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.

We talk about the quality of product and service. What about the quality of our relationships and the quality of our communications and the quality of our promises to each other?

Does God care if I'm sad? Look at the tear-streaked face of Jesus as he stands near Lazarus's tomb.

I will never understand why people get so upset at things I don't even remember saying.

Ultimately, I don't care if people decide that what I'm doing is real or not...as long as they understand it isn't EASY.

I laugh at people who say things like 'I'm a good person, I just do bad things.' No, that's not how it works. What you do IS who you are.

There is that small chance I’ll get what I want; to be someone to relate to for anyone who is as alienated, awkward, spastic and passionate as me.

What seems today inconceivable will appear one day, from a higher stand point, quite simple and harmonious.

I believe that consciousness is the way information feels when being processed.

The young are of age when they twitter like the old; they are driven through school to learn the old song, and, when they have this by heart, they are declared of age.

People is the name of the body, State of the spirit, of that ruling person that has hitherto suppressed me.

Humility has such power. Apologies can disarm arguments. Contrition can defuse rage. Olive branches do more good than battle axes ever will.

There is nothing on earth that can satisfy our deepest longing. We long to see God. The leaves of life are rustling with the rumor that we will - and we won't be satisfied until we do.

A scientist is happy, not in resting on his attainments but in the steady acquisition of fresh knowledge.

I contracted a disease which I have never shaken off. The disease was idealism. Because of it, I did the thing in life I wanted to do - Writing.

Faith is the conviction that God knows more than we do about this life and He will get us through it.

The purely emotional form of Pietism is, as Ritschl has pointed out, a religious dilettantism for the leisure class.

Reason as an organ for perceiving the true nature of reality and determining the guiding principles of our lives has come to be regarded as obsolete.

Causal analysis provides absolutely no value judgment, and a value judgment is absolutely not a causal explanation.

A new truth always has to conend with many difficulties. If it were not so, it would have been discovered much sooner.