discounts QUOTES

1 " ... but she believed and that was the price of belief. It gave no discounts to friendship (p370) "

2 " Anyone who discounts you is a dumbass," I muttered as the golf cart jerked forward." And are you a dumbass?" the Pigeon inquired as she peeked under the tarp." Absolutely not...I'm a smartass. "

3 " The key to the scientist's purpose is the idea that every phenomenon is the product of a certain given set of condition. In his laboratory he hopes to reconstitute the set of conditions, however complex they may be, which, once they are fully reconstituted, cannot fail to give rise to the phenomenon he is after, life. In other words he seeks to start off a mechanically fated chain-reaction; and of course, in enumerating the conditions that have made it possible for him to manufacture his phenomenon he systematically discounts the huge mental toils, the plodding, methodical research, of himself and others.

Thus, by a singular contradiction, he succeeds in convincing himself and, of course, attempts to persuade others, that he has arrived at the origin of his phenomenon; he sets out to demonstrate that everything in the universe runs perfectly smoothly by itself, without any creative power at anytime intruding. "

― Gabriel Marcel

4 " For example, the call for equal rights has perverted into “let’s all be the same.” Male and female biological differences are discounted, because “male” and “female” are considered “outdated social constructs,” and while that is partially true, the social construct stance becomes clear reductionism when it totally discounts clear differences in male and female biology (i.e., androgyny is not the same as equality). "

― Gudjon Bergmann , More Likely to Quote Star Wars than the Bible: Generation X and Our Frustrating Search for Rational Spirituality

5 " Life may be scary
But it’s only temporary.
And this is perhaps the most comforting conclusion to be reached if one discounts the possibility of meaning.

from: Antinatalism A Thought Experiment "

― Quentin S. Crisp

6 " Life may be scary
But it’s only temporary.
And this is perhaps the most comforting conclusion to be reached if one discounts the possibility of meaning. "

― Quentin S. Crisp