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Dan Brown Quotes

Total quotes: 15
“I love the gray area between right and wrong.”
— Dan Brown, Dan Brown: 'Inferno' Is 'The Book That I Would Want To Read'
Tagged: Right And Wrong, Ethics, Beliefs, Values
“Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.”
— Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code
“Observing your own brain in a bowl, you would not say, "That object is me." We are the sum of the interactions taking place within the mechanism.”
— Dan Brown, Origin: A Novel
Tagged: Epistemology, Bodies, Brains
“Waves never crash onto beaches and deposit sand in the shape of a sand castle.”
— Dan Brown, Origin: A Novel
Tagged: order, Chaos
“Historically, the most dangerous men on the earth were men of God...especially when their gods became threatened.”
— Dan Brown, Origin: A Novel
Tagged: Religion, Orthodoxy, Why people are such dicks
“I am not saying I know for a fact there is no God. All I am saying is that if there is a divine force behind the universe, it is laughing hysterically at the religions we've created in an attempt to define it.”
— Dan Brown, Origin: A Novel
Tagged: Religion, atheism, Agnosticism, Pluralism
“Love is from another realm. We cannot manufacture it on demand. Nor can we subdue it when it appears. Love is not our choice to make.”
— Dan Brown, Origin: A Novel
Tagged: Love, Breaking Up, Why we believe what we believe
“Spiritual beliefs are etched deeply on our psyches at a young age by those we love and trust most -- our parents, our teachers, our religious leaders. Therefore, any religious shifts occur over generations, and not without great angst, and often bloodshed.”
— Dan Brown, Origin: A Novel
Tagged: Religion, Orthodoxy, Why we believe what we believe
“History is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books-books which glorify their own cause and disparage the conquered foe. As Napoleon once said, 'What is history, but a fable agreed upon?”
— Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code
Tagged: History, Thinking, Fable
“Should we wave a flag and tell the Buddhists that we have proof the Buddha did not come from a lotus blossom? Or that Jesus was not born of a literal virgin birth? Those who truly understand their faiths understand the stories are metaphorical.”
— Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code
Tagged: How To Think, Religion, Spirituality
“Everyone respects those who live by a code.”
— Dan Brown, Origin: A Novel
Tagged: Uniforms, Social contract, Community
“We comfort our physical bodies in hopes our souls will follow.”
— Dan Brown, Origin: A Novel
Tagged: Religion, Pain, Sex, Drugs, Alcohol
“The art is in knowing how to ask.”
— Dan Brown, Origin: A Novel
Tagged: Technology, Questions, Inquiry
“"For the human brain," Edmond explained, "any answer is better than no answer. We feel enormous discomfort when faced with 'insufficient data,' and so our brains invent the data-- offering us, at the very least, the illusion of order--creating myriad philosophies, mythologies, and religions to reassure us that there is indeed an order and structure to the unseen world."”
— Dan Brown, Origin: A Novel
Tagged: Religion, Orthodoxy, Why we believe what we believe
“Every faith in the world is based on fabrication. That is the definition of faith―acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove. Every religion describes God through metaphor, allegory, and exaggeration, from the early Egyptians through modern Sunday school. Metaphors are a way to help our minds process the unprocessible. The problems arise when we begin to believe literally in our own metaphors.”
— Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code
Tagged: How To Think, Religion, Spirituality, fabrication
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