Nancy Pearcey Quotes

I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am.

Psychology which explains everything explains nothing, and we are still in doubt.

Nobody has the time to sit down and explain the first world from first principles.

The world is older and bigger than we are. This is a hard truth for some folks to swallow.

The key is really just saying my brain isn't big enough to figure out why everything happens. It would be like an ant trying to understand the internet.

Fundamentally, I have no idea how the world works, though I am trying to figure it out.

Do try to remember this: even the world's not so black as it is painted" -Valerie to Stephen (pg. 408)

I always trust the microcosm over the macrocosm.

There are two different ways of looking at the universe; and it's the same universe with two different windows. The science window gives you a view of the world, and the religion window gives you a totally different view. You can't look at both of them at the same time, but they're both true.

You can only live in the world you ken. The rest is just wishful thinking or paranoia.

I don't try to be funny. It's just that I feel the world is a little bit absurd and off-kilter and I'm sort of reporting.

I want to live happily in a world I don’t understand.

I made the things particularly because I wanted them to see the world.

Everything looks different when you're older, not staring up at the world but down upon it.

We should not try to design a better world. We should make better feedback loops.

With our human limitations we're not always able to understand the explanations.

All things show up in the world according to the purposes we ascribe to them.

A single ego is an absurdly narrow vantage point from which to view the world.

Being traded is like celebrating your 100th birthday. It might not be the happiest occasion in the world, but consider the alternative.

Look out the other’s window. Try to see the world as your patient sees it.

He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.

I don't think any of my books tell the reader anything new. But they do remind, in a time that is strident and screeching about the limitations of this world and all the trouble we can get ourselves into.

Most human beings who are accustomed to attempting to see the world from various points of view tend to be more liberal than conservative.

A moment might be a thousand different things.