Joseph Gerland > Recent Status Updates

"To preach the gospel is not just to tell the truth but to tell the truth in love, and to tell the truth in love means to tell it with concern not only for the truth that is being told but with concern also for the people it is being told to."

To quote Buechner quoting Shakespeare, "The weight of this sad time we must obey, Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say."

"Great history always is a story between real people... If we propagate ideas instead of selling them, we shall not be in need of that sad substitute for propagation--propaganda."

"The more a man represses the impressions made upon himself, the more he must depend on vestiges and impressions made by life on others. He is suppressing some of the evidence of the world he is studying when he claims to work with pure mind."

This dude has totally bended my mind in regard to scientific thought. Never have a heard a more compelling argument against Descartes' cogito ergo sum.

"The presence of one living soul among the three million volumes of a great library offers sufficient proof against the notion that the secret of this soul is to be found by reading those three million books."