201 Quotes by Daniel Quinn

But charisma only wins people’s attention. Once you have their attention, you have to have something to tell them.

The God of revealed religions - and by this I mean religions like yours - is a profoundly inarticulate God. No matter how many times he tries, he can't make himself clearly or completely understood. He speaks for centuries to the Jews, but fails to make himself understood. At last he sends his only-begotten son, and his son can't seem to do any better.

five severed fingers do not make a hand

It's not MAN who is the scourge of the world, it's a single culture. One culture out of hundreds of thousands of cultures. Our culture.

Children don't need learning. They need access to what they want to learn outside the home.

The world is not in any sense in danger from itself. The world is in fact not in any danger at all. It is we who are in danger.

Animists are not so much people with a religion as people with a fundamentally religious way of looking at things.

Imagine that the gods have a care for everything that lives in the community of life on earth.

No story is devoid of meaning ... If you know how to look for it.