Richard Dawkins Quotes

I want to be as though newborn. To be almost primitive.

The world's beginning is its mother. To have found the mother is also to know the children. Although you know the children, cling to the mother. Until your last day you will not be harmed.

The stream is always purer at its source.

If you realize all the time what's kind of wonderful - that is, if we expand our experience into wilder and wilder regions of experience - every once in a while, we have these integrations when everything's pulled together into a unification, in which it turns out to be simpler than it looked before.

The genius of the French language, descended from its single Latin stock, has triumphed most in the contrary direction - in simplicity, in unity, in clarity, and in restraint.

But God, who is the beginning of all things, is not to be regarded as a composite being, lest perchance there should be found to exist elements prior to the beginning itself, out of which everything is composed, whatever that be which is called composite.

Everything starts from a dot.

I am black and white.

Work restores humankind and all its attributes to the savage animal condition that was its original intended state.

Singleness, simplicity, is required of me. One treasure, a single eye, and a sole Master!

The limited circle is pure.

When the child was a child, it didn’t know that it was a child, everything was soulful, and all souls were one.

Almost everything comes from almost nothing.

Mighty rivers can easily be leaped at their source.

A dewdrop is a perfect integrity that has no filial memory of its parentage.

It isn't necessary for a work to have a lot of things to look at, to compare, to analyze one by one, to contemplate. The thing as a whole, its quality whole, is what is interesting. The main things are alone and are more intense, clear and powerful.

It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.

I made the unexpected but happy discovery that the answer to several of the questions that most occupied me was in fact one and the same: Cook.

Truth, which is simple and one, admits of no variety.

Begin with the simplest examples.

Simplicity is the essence of universality.

Nature loves simplicity and unity.

Knowing things halfway is a greater success than knowing things completely: it takes things to be simpler than they really are andso makes its opinions more easily understandable and persuasive.

I think one thing most of faiths have in common is they all realize that everything manifests from one [god]. That's whether you're dealing with science, religion, Bible, whatever. They all realize it all came from one, and then from one, you got many.