Nigel Harris > Nigel's Quotes

“You think that you are an iconoclast, but you’re not. You just move, or replace what you cannot have. If you fail at something, you retreat into something else. Nothing changes you.... I left you because I knew I could never change you. You would stand in the room so still sometimes, as if the greatest betrayal of yourself would be to reveal one more inch of your character.”
― Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient

“It is true that those we meet can change us, sometimes so profoundly that we are not the same afterwards, even unto our names.”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

“To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

“A fresh approach is needed — an analysis of our human situation from a basis that recognises and confronts the psychological dimension to our behaviour”
― Jeremy Griffith, FREEDOM: The End of the Human Condition

“Since science and religion provide two different perspectives on the human situation, they must ultimately be able to be reconciled.”
― Jeremy Griffith, Beyond the Human Condition

“Love is unconditional selflessness”
― Jeremy Griffith, FREEDOM: The End of the Human Condition

“Finding understanding of the human condition is what rehabilitates and transforms the human race”
― Jeremy Griffith, FREEDOM: The End of the Human Condition

“It's important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go. Otherwise you are left with words you should have said but never did, and your heart is heavy with remorse.”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

“The world isn't just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it, no?
Doesn't that make life a story?”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi