Daniel Bennett

“Does meaning matter? Philosopher Ronald Dworkin’s cheap dismissal is often quoted, “Philosophers used to speculate about what they called the meaning of life. (That is now the job of mystics and comedians.)”2 But that of course is too cynical. “Man cannot stand a meaningless life,” Carl Gustav Jung claimed.3 Anthropologist Clifford Geertz agreed. “The drive to make sense out of experience, to give it form and order, is evidently as real and pressing as the more biological needs.”4 But if meaning is so important, what accounts for the striking carelessness in pursuing it?”
― Os Guinness, Fool's Talk: Recovering the Art of Christian Persuasion

“Don’t trust anyone over thirty,” the 1960s radicals cried. “Don’t trust anyone under three hundred,” came Thomas Oden’s wise reply.”
― Os Guinness, Fool's Talk: Recovering the Art of Christian Persuasion

“Yale philosopher Harry Frankfurt writes, “One of the salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit. Everyone knows this. Each of us contributes his share. But we tend to take the situation for granted.”
― Os Guinness, Fool's Talk: Recovering the Art of Christian Persuasion

“True spirituality breaks down the walls of our souls and lets in not just heaven, but the whole world.”
― Teresa of Ávila, Let Nothing Disturb You: 30 Days with Teresa of Avila