Man can certainly flee from God... but he cannot escape him. He can certainly hate God and be hateful to God, but he cannot change into its opposite the eternal love of God which triumphs even in his hate.
Karl Barth
Related Man can certainly keep on lying... but he cannot make truth falsehood. He can certainly rebel... but... KARL BARTH The life most pleasing to God, is that which is spent in most usefulness to our fellow-creatures. A ... S. M. M'CORKLE The glutton cannot turn his mind to God,” he said dismissively. “But neither can the starving ma... KATHERINE ARDEN No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one,
and love the other; or else he will... BIBLE Every time I see my brother, I just praise God for God's grace in his life. Because if God can c... ANNE GRAHAM LOTZ If God is so powerful, can he create a rock which he cannot lift? TERRY GOODKIND When a man gets to despair he knows that all his thinking will never get him out. He will only get o... OSWALD CHAMBERS If a man say, 'I love God,' and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his... JOHN THE APOSTLE God will never disappoint us… If deep in our hearts we suspect that God does not love us and canno... ELISABETH ELLIOT Until a man love God, can he love his neighbour. LAILAH GIFTY, AKITA God cannot be referred to as 'good,' 'better,' or 'best' because He is above all things. If a man sa... ANDREW DAVIDSON God cannot resist love for He cannot resist Himself. MATSHONA DHLIWAYO There are three impossibilities in life: God cannot lie, God cannot change and finally, I cannot be ... IKECHUKWU IZUAKOR The eternal God - the infinite Jehovah - has done all he could do - even to the sacrificing his own ... ELIJAH PARISH LOVEJOY A pastor should never complain about his congregation, certainly never to other people, but also not... DIETRICH BONHOEFFER You say you cannot love God; but it strikes me that if you rightly consider who and what He is, you ... ANNE BRONTë All men ought to think of Christ because of the office Christ fills between God and man. He is the e... J. C. RYLE You can bend it and twist it... You can misuse and abuse it... But even God cannot change the Truth. MICHAEL LEVY They that deny a God destroy man's nobility; for certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body; ... FRANCIS BACON Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. BIBLE Near, so very near to God,
Nearer I cannot be;
For in the person of his Son
I am as near... CATESBY PAGET I cannot forgive Descartes. In all his philosophy he would have been quite willing to dispense with ... BLAISE PASCAL But I can please God CRAIG GROESCHEL A man may go into the field and say his prayer and be aware of God, or he may be in Church and be aw... MEISTER ECKHART I hate man more than I hate god because man created god. DIPAK F. PAWAR Feast of Peter & Paul, Apostles No man can be without his god. If he have not the true God to ble... RICHARD CHEVENIX TRENCH Love does not inquire into the character of the recipient but it asks what he needs. It does not lov... EMIL BRUNNER He is my son. But if a son does not care about the dignity of his family, God can take him. You cann... ABDUL MANAN Commemoration of Bartolomè de las Casas, Apostle to the Indies, 1566 If God said, "I forgi... GEORGE MACDONALD Curse of God, Guru can remove. Curse of Guru, even God cannot. SW. CHIDANANDA TIRTHA God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him. ANONYMOUS Yes. The opposite of love is not hate. It is indifference. That is why few people find God. They go ... CHRISTOPHER PIKE God is subtle, but He is not malicious. I cannot believe that God plays dice with the world. ALBERT EINSTEIN They that deny a God destroy man's nobility, for certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body; ... FRANCIS BACON SR. Atheists can live without God but they cannot live without water, food and air, which were created b... тαмιℓιαηρσηηυ Even God cannot change the past. AGATHON He must pull out his own eyes, and see no creature, before he can say, he sees no God; He must be no... JOHN DONNE We shouldn't hate anyone. God tells us to love them. He loved their humanity. GENE COLLINS He who prays five times a day is in the protection of God, and he who is protected by God cannot be ... ABU BAKR The more he needs God, the more deeply he comprehends he is in need of God, and then the more he in ... SøREN KIERKEGAARD They that deny a God destroy man's nobility; for certainly man is
of kin to the beasts by his body;... FRANCIS BACON God has prepared everything, but he cannot do anything without you to bring His plan to pass SUNDAY ADELAJA If God be an infinite being, there cannot be, either in the present or future world, any relative pr... BARON D'HOLBACH And I pray mark how he begins: he sets not up trophies to himself, but triumphs in his God-- "I will... RICHARD STEELE God needs the righteous to be obedient to Him before He can change the whole nation SUNDAY ADELAJA Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: A man who prays without ceasing, if he achieves something, k... DOROTHEUS OF GAZA He was without any comforts of God — no feeling that God loved him — no feeling that God pi... ROBERT MURRAY MCCHEYNE If Christianity is a mere invention of man, and the Bible is not from God, how can infidels explain ... J. C. RYLE God can have our money and not have our hearts, but He cannot have our hearts without having our mon... R. KENT HUGHES How can we love a holy God? The simplest answer I can give to this vital question is that we can’t... R.C. SPROUL If deep in our hearts we suspect that God does not love us and cannot manage our affairs as well as ... ELISABETH ELLIOT God cannot alter the past, but historians can. SAMUEL BUTLER Because we cannot know what God is, but only what He is not, we cannot consider how He is but only h... ST. THOMAS AQUINAS God is patient with us to become the God's children he wants us to be but you really can see him... DESMOND TUTU A man must be faithful to God, so he can be faithful to his wife. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA O how wonderful life is, how miraculous, God made this and God made that", "how do you know he doesn... JACK KEROUAC We have made up a God in our image. Because we are angry and judgmental, we have projected those cha... MARIANNE WILLIAMSON The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholes... WILLIAM JAMES Feast of the Conversion of Paul The God of Pharisaism was like the God of the Deists, He stood al... C. H. DODD Grace of the Gnani’ [the enlightened one] will take you to moksha [ultimate liberation] and ‘Gra... DADA BHAGWAN Yet, if he would, man cannot live all to this world. If not
religious, he will be superstitious. ... THEODORE PARKER God is the same God, always and everywhere. He is omnipresent not virtually only, but also substanti... ISAAC NEWTON God supplies us with the opportunity, but He cannot take advantage of it for us. SOURCE UNKNOWN Man goes far away or near but God never goes far-off; he is always standing close at hand, and even ... MEISTER ECKHART We cannot know whether we love God, although there may be strong reason for thinking so; but there c... TERESA OF AVILA Let them pretend what they please, the true reason why any despise the new birth is because they hat... JOHN OWEN Satan cannot win. Why not? Because he has denied God's sovereignty and disobeyed God's law. ... GARY NORTH Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen. STEPHEN HAWKING I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I ca... ABRAHAM LINCOLN If a man makes best use of whatever means he has at his disposal and also has the blessings of God t... SAM VEDA Whatever man may stand, whatever he may do, to whatever he may apply his hand - in agriculture, in c... ABRAHAM KUYPER When we cannot find joy in our circumstances, we can find joy in God who is unchanged and unchanging... KATIE DAVIS MAJORS Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he
will flee from you. BIBLE There cannot be a personal God without a pessimistic religion. As soon as there is a personal God he... CYRIL CONNOLLY God must hate common people, because he made them so common PHILIP WYLIE If a poet or an artist puts himself into his Productions he is criticized. But that is exactly what ... SØREN KIERKEGAARD If a person seeks after the knowledge of God, he will certainly be a conqueror. SUNDAY ADELAJA God cannot judge me, he has no religion! TARIQUE SIDDIQUE MOHAMMED I can love a person in this life only insofar as he tries to advance in the praise and service of Go... SAINT IGNATIUS In the beginning, God created the earth, and he looked upon it in His cosmic loneliness. ... KURT VONNEGUT JR. A major theme for Bonhoeffer was that every Christian must be "fully human" by bringing God into his... ERIC METAXAS Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit. BABE RUTH All atheists will go to heaven. If god exists, not believing in him does not take him away and he ca... BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Every poet and musician and artist, but for Grace, is drawn away from the love of the thing he tells... C.S. LEWIS Man does what he can, God does what he will. PROVERB God dislikes evil, and no happiness can be built on hate. Love one another as brothers. JOSEPHINE BAKER The opposite of love is not hate, but apathy.
You cannot hate someone you don't care about. UNKNOWN Atheism is without God. It does not assert no God. The atheist does not say that there is no God, bu... CHARLES BRADLAUGH Hate sin. Love righteousness of God. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA God made you to love him supremely, but he lost you. He returned to get you back, but it took the cr... TIMOTHY J. KELLER To accept Christ is to receive Him by faith as your Lord and Savior. But, strictly speaking, the gre... H. A. IRONSIDE God did not create gays and lesbians so He could have something to hate! TROY PERRY God did not create gays and lesbians so He could have something to hate!. TROY PERRY man suffers most from the suffering he fears, but never appears, therefore he suffers more then god ... DUTCH PROVERB God the Father and God the Son cannot be everywhere present; indeed they cannot be even in two place... ORSON PRATT Church is so confusing for Juvenalius. His new pastor preaches nothing but hate and condemnation of ... JUVENALIUS No one could really hate a saint, could they? They can't really hate God either. When they want to H... EVELYN WAUGH It has been said that though God cannot alter the past, historians can; it is perhaps because they c... SAMUEL BUTLER It has been said that although God cannot alter the past, historians can --it is perhaps because the... SAMUEL BUTLER God is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshippin... RAMAKRISHNA
More Karl Barth
Men have never been good, they are not good and they never will be good. KARL BARTH What God chooses for us children of men is always the best. KARL BARTH In the Church of Jesus Christ there can and should be no non-theologians. KARL BARTH Faith is never identical with piety. KARL BARTH Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo. KARL BARTH Jews have God's promise and if we Christians have it, too, then it is only as those chosen with ... KARL BARTH Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God al... KARL BARTH Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself... KARL BARTH It is always the case that when the Christian looks back, he is looking at the forgiveness of sins. KARL BARTH No one can be saved - in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved - in virtue of what God can... KARL BARTH Grace must find expression in life, otherwise it is not grace. KARL BARTH The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself. KARL BARTH Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God. KARL BARTH Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life. KARL BARTH It may be that when the angels go about their task praising God, they play only Bach. I am sure, how... KARL BARTH Whether the angels play only Bach praising God, I am not quite sure. I am sure, however, that en fam... KARL BARTH Commemoration of Birinus, Bishop of Dorchester (Oxon), Apostle of Wessex, 650 "Homesickness for... KARL BARTH Feast of Martin, Monk, Bishop of Tours, 397 People naturally do not shout it out, least of all in... KARL BARTH We may all be inclined to think of man's countless foolish and selfish intentions, his twisted and m... KARL BARTH Only one thing is quite certain: he too has his time and not more than his time. One day others will... KARL BARTH [From our side] our relation to God is unrighteous. Secretly we are ourselves the masters in this re... KARL BARTH Commemoration of Samuel & Henrietta Barnett, Social Reformers, 1913 & 1936 Religion is the possibi... KARL BARTH There is joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, ... KARL BARTH Commemoration of Peter Chanel, Religious, Missionary in the South Pacific, Martyr, 1841 The Day of... KARL BARTH Feast of Ignatius, Bishop of Antioch, Martyr, c.107 Grace is the incomprehensible fact that God ... KARL BARTH Joy is the simplest form of gratitude. KARL BARTH Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God KARL BARTH We definitely showed a month off, but I should have had us ready. KARL BARTH Mozart's music always sounds unburdened, effortless, and light. This is why it unburdens, releases, ... KARL BARTH No one can be saved--in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved--in virtue of what God can d... KARL BARTH Theology is not a private subject for theologians only. Nor is it a private subject for professors. ... KARL BARTH Jews have God's promise and if we Christians have it, too, then it is only as those chosen with them... KARL BARTH Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo. KARL BARTH Man can certainly keep on lying... but he cannot make truth falsehood. He can certainly rebel... but... KARL BARTH The nativity mystery “conceived from the Holy Spirit and born from the Virgin Mary”, means, that... KARL BARTH In the Church of Jesus Christ there can and should be no non-theologians KARL BARTH Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God al... KARL BARTH The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself KARL BARTH Prayer without study would be empty. Study without prayer would be blind. KARL BARTH [Karl Barth, the 20th-century theologian who pounded home the theme of God's sovereignty, saw no con... KARL BARTH Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up. JOSEPH BARTH Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story. JOHN BARTH This is an exciting time. A new chapter in our history. JOHN BARTH Compaq continues to experience tremendous growth in Europe, and the support of a dedicated financing... ANDREAS BARTH We are going for number one in the consumer market. ANDREAS BARTH We are aiming for trading rooms in Europe. ANDREAS BARTH We think we can grow faster than the rest of the market. ANDREAS BARTH More history is made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills, and proclamations. JOHN BARTH Somewhere in the world there was a young woman with such splendid understanding that she'd see him e... JOHN BARTH He's very happy with what he came out with. It was great to see his improvement. CAROL BARTH There's not much of anything he hasn't tried. He can't read or write, but he sure does enjoy his spo... CAROL BARTH She just thinks the world of him. CAROL BARTH I went ahead and pushed him on the ice. He was running really slow that day. He definitely came out ... CAROL BARTH Feast of Martin, Monk, Bishop of Tours, 397 When no tensions are confronted and overcome, because... MARKUS BARTH Commemoration of Richard Meux Benson, Founder of the Society of St John the Evangelist, 1915 It i... MARKUS BARTH Feast of Cuthbert, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 687 It seems clear that those people who p... MARKUS BARTH It is often pleasant to stone a martyr, no matter how much we admire him. JOHN BARTH More history is made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills, and proclamations JOHN BARTH The difference ‘twixt poet and coxcomb is precisely that the latter stops gaps like a ship fitter ... JOHN BARTH And we're going to charge you the same amount for the same reliable service, regardless of how big o... DAVE BARTH I think employers are going to start getting requests (for benefits) as soon as Monday. And they're ... BRUCE BARTH Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up JOSEPH BARTH If you are a novelist of a certain type of temperament, then what you really want to do is re-invent... JOHN BARTH The defendants are fully aware when they violate the law and they have to notify the state. We're re... JOHN BARTH By joining with York, a market leader with a strong growth outlook, Johnson Controls is staking out ... JOHN BARTH The lift cannot be used to take sailboats over the dam unless the sailboat has a removable centerboa... JOHN BARTH We're proud to play a leading role in helping to connect our minority business partners to the globa... JOHN BARTH We prefer a quick trial date. We think that's what will get this case resolved. JOHN BARTH That's what keeping the case from getting resolved. JOHN BARTH When we look at acquisitions, we really look at it as platform growth. JOHN BARTH Where Three Roads Meet JOHN BARTH We're a different company going forward here today, and we're really excited about it, JOHN BARTH The business environment remains challenging, ... But if you have a good strategy ... there is gold ... JOHN BARTH We are delivering on the expectations we set forth in October and remain confident that 2006 will be... JOHN BARTH It is often pleasant to stone a martyr, no matter how much we admire him JOHN BARTH Everybody is just really appalled that an 8-year-old would be labeled, even if it's not going in his... TAMMY BARTH Like an ox-cart driver in monsoon season or the skipper of a grounded ship, one must sometimes go fo... JOHN BARTH The Bible is not man's word about God, but God's word about man. JOHN BARTH My feeling about technique in art is that it has about the same value as technique in lovemaking. He... JOHN BARTH Nothing is intrinsically valuable; the value of everything is attributed to it, assigned to it from ... JOHN BARTH There's no question we can bring some expertise, ... I'm sure they have some as well. But we're reco... JOHN BARTH All different types of food can fit into a meal plan and that's why I don't believe in dieting becau... CHRISSY BARTH The bulk of your cart should come from the fruits and vegetables, the produce department. CHRISSY BARTH Enterprises tend to have a lot of scale issues. DAVE BARTH The Network Storage Conference attracts some of the most forward-thinking and informed professionals... DAVE BARTH He knew I was with the BU track team, so he asked me what events I ran. DAVE BARTH We all were carrying our BU track bags, and when we got there, they told us we couldn't bring them i... DAVE BARTH We were running late to the show. DAVE BARTH The entire thing was crazy. I wasn't even going to go on the trip because we had to get up every mor... DAVE BARTH [Online services are] a lot less expensive than paper invitations and a lot easier than getting ever... LEE BARTH It's had a terrible impact. LINDA BARTH The commission is an independent decision-making body and there are strong rules that govern how the... LINDA BARTH The commission stands by its decision, which was based on a thorough review of the record. LINDA BARTH Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet,... KARL MARX The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its ... KARL MARX It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its ... KARL MARX History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real... KARL MARX From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs. KARL MARX Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, ... KARL MARX If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist. KARL MARX The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property. KARL MARX Democracy is the road to socialism. KARL MARX Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex. KARL MARX The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course crea... KARL MARX Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers. KARL MARX There is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism. KARL MARX Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from soc... KARL MARX Religion is the opium of the masses. KARL MARX The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but... KARL MARX A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism. KARL MARX The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of gen... KARL MARX Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity. KARL MARX Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state. KARL MARX The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion. KARL MARX Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of it... KARL MARX For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him. KARL MARX Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand. KARL MARX I've never understood the 'things to do before you die' idea. If I was ill, I'd be i... KARL PILKINGTON With evolution, things are always changing, so I sort of think: Should we all be growing three heads... KARL PILKINGTON At the end of the day, teachers aren't going to mess about trying to make me into an Einstein, &... KARL PILKINGTON It's not a joke: I really do like being at home. KARL PILKINGTON I don't know what the future is, but you just do it whilst it's there, don't you? KARL PILKINGTON I just sort of go along and say what I think -and that's all you can do in life, really. KARL PILKINGTON The other day I was thinking - because I get a lot of headaches - I was wondering whether the head s... KARL PILKINGTON We'll all die out eventually. Humans will be gone. And all I'm saying is, when people worry ... KARL PILKINGTON But I'm not an idiot. At the end of the day, I've learned a lot. KARL PILKINGTON For me, a good holiday is about value for money rather than things to see. KARL PILKINGTON Everyone is living for everyone else now. They're doing stuff so they can tell other people abou... KARL PILKINGTON Parrots have gone a bit quiet since pirates have gone. KARL PILKINGTON A slug is always on its own. It's a lonely insect. KARL PILKINGTON I sometimes wonder how we're short of cod. There's gonna be a load deep down that are hiding... KARL PILKINGTON People who live in a glass house have to answer the door. KARL PILKINGTON I've done some luxury flying, which is brilliant. It has only happened once or twice, but it was... KARL PILKINGTON People who live in glass houses... have to answer the door. KARL PILKINGTON It would be spiteful to put a Jellyfish in a trifle. KARL PILKINGTON They say it all started out with a big bang. But, what I wonder is, was it a big bang or did it just... KARL PILKINGTON I'd rather live in a cave with a view of a palace than live in a palace with a view of a cave. KARL PILKINGTON The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time ne... KARL MARX Statistics is the grammar of science. KARL PEARSON I never go anywhere. I do sketches and make phone calls, and people visit. It's more fun to come... KARL LAGERFELD But, look, Washington is a town that creates myths for its own existence and its own amusement, and ... KARL ROVE You may be right that people say: 'You know what, we had Obama. He was inexperienced. The guy ha... KARL ROVE Mr. Obama has an ingenious approach to job losses: He describes them as job gains. KARL ROVE The difficulty for Mr. Obama will be when the public sees where his decisions lead - higher inflatio... KARL ROVE Mr. Obama denounced the $2.3 trillion added to the national debt on Mr. Bush's watch as 'def... KARL ROVE In his first 100 days, Mr. Obama has put the fate of his presidency in the hands of House Speaker Na... KARL ROVE For a person who promised hope and civility in politics, Mr. Obama has shown a borderline obsessiven... KARL ROVE Many Democrats have a pre-9/11 worldview. KARL ROVE Somebody gets to be smart and somebody gets to be dumb. If we win, it'll be because of the presi... KARL ROVE I mean, if you have to wake up in the morning to be validated by the editorial page of the New York ... KARL ROVE I believe in traditional marriage. KARL ROVE Mr. Obama plans to boost federal spending 25 percent while nearly tripling the national debt over 10... KARL ROVE And not only that, I also have the MacBook Air which is really cool. Even my wife is jealous of my M... KARL ROVE What Mr. Obama wants in a nominee isn't really 'empathy' and 'understanding.' He... KARL ROVE The Tea Party movement is a wide and diverse group. It will hurt the Republican Party if some elemen... KARL ROVE Alinsky's 1971 book, 'Rules for Radicals,' is a favorite of the Obamas. Michele Obama qu... KARL ROVE Memo to White House: Calling voters stupid is not a winning strategy. KARL ROVE Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 in the attacks and prepared for war; liberals saw the savager... KARL ROVE I think it's dawning on some Democrats that obstructing the Patriot Act, like they've been o... KARL ROVE As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vo... KARL ROVE It's not comfortable for me to write about my family. I'm not comfortable writing about me. KARL ROVE Grace can and does have a history. KARL RAHNER What Christ gives us is quite explicit if his own words are interpreted according to their Aramaic m... KARL RAHNER Grace is everywhere as an active orientation of all created reality toward God. KARL RAHNER The Christian of the future will be a mystic or he will not exist at all. KARL RAHNER How often I have found that we grow to maturity not by doing what we like, but by doing what we shou... KARL RAHNER Thus in such a Labour Party there can be no question of independent policy. KARL RADEK The mass of workers, as yet non-Socialist, is retarded in its development towards Socialism. KARL RADEK If a Labour movement, on a bourgeois basis, has hitherto existed in the country where the new moveme... KARL RADEK Every social organisation which is rooted in life still lasts a long time, even after the conditions... KARL RADEK Without Socialism the working class is a heterogeneous mixture of different categories, some of whic... KARL RADEK The enmity of such a party towards Socialism does not mean that the members are only prejudiced agai... KARL RADEK A Labour party is not a debating club, it is a party of action. KARL RADEK In general, if signs of sectarianism do appear in a Socialist Party, these are only the products of ... KARL RADEK Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the prov... KARL POPPER We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom c... KARL POPPER Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification. KARL POPPER There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life.... KARL POPPER Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite. KARL POPPER The mathematician, carried along on his flood of symbols, dealing apparently with purely formal trut... KARL PEARSON I was given the ability to create stories and characters. That's my part of the long chain of wr... KARL MARLANTES I began writing 'Matterhorn' in 1975 and for more than 30 years I kept working on my novel i... KARL MARLANTES 'The Odyssey' is the great tale, and I was really taken by 'The Iliad,' so I dig int... KARL MARLANTES Really important books to me are the classics. I try very hard to read them well - you know, especia... KARL MARLANTES I don't want any romantics to go into the military. I'm not a pacifist. I think we need a mi... KARL MARLANTES I knew many Marines had done brave deeds that no one saw and for which they got no medals at all. I ... KARL MARLANTES In the military I could exercise the power of being automatically respected because of the medals on... KARL MARLANTES And I think that it's - the military has actually made improvements, so people are considering p... KARL MARLANTES I mean, if you're proud of what you've done when you've served in the military, well the... KARL MARLANTES I mean... if you're raised as a decent human being, killing somebody is against every moral thin... KARL MARLANTES The Marine Corps taught me how to kill, but it didn't teach me how to deal with killing. KARL MARLANTES When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about ... KARL MARLANTES I grew up in Oregon, where as a teenager I worked with my grandfather Axel on his i shing boat at th... KARL MARLANTES Vietnam was the first time that Americans of different races had to depend on each other. In the Sec... KARL MARLANTES We all want to be special, to stand out; there's nothing wrong with this. The irony is that ever... KARL MARLANTES War is society's dirty work, usually done by kids cleaning up failures perpetrated by adults. KARL MARLANTES It takes people a while to trust you. KARL MALONE I just think we want to stay healthy, and I don't think we think about a sense of urgency. We re... KARL MALONE I have many friends and family members who have served (or are currently serving) in our nation'... KARL MALONE To catch the ball, face up, look at all of my options and then pass. I was playing hot potato. I did... KARL MALONE