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I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do.
Edward Everett Hale I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of. Clarence Darrow Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.
Heinrich Heine
He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself. Thomas Paine Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is supposed to be cast into belief without reason, by a miracle, and from then on to swim in it as in the brightest and least ambiguous of elements: even a glance towards land, even the thought that one perhaps exists for something else as well as swimming, even the slightest impulse of our amphibious nature - is sin! And notice that all this means that the foundation of belief and all reflection on its origin is likewise excluded as sinful. What is wanted are blindness and intoxication and an eternal song over the waves in which reason has drowned.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Don't get mad - get even. I don't speak for others and they don't speak for me.
Splitting myself into too many faces Now the mirror's broken I can see the worms behind Alphaville, Apollo Anticipation is a richly hidden castle standing far from fear. Truth, like the sun, cannot be directly observed. Mourning is for the living. We'll burn that bridge when we come to it. There is only one blasphemy, and that is the refusal to experience joy. Paul Rudnick Thoughts are the gun, words are the bullets, deeds are the target, the bulls-eye is heaven. While seeking revenge, dig two graves - one for yourself. Doug Horton A storm is coming; our storm. Emperor - we come for you!
Frank Herbert
What I give form to in daylight is only one per cent of what I have seen in darkness. M. C. Escher Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. Bertrand Russell Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them. Dion Boucicault Those who climb soap boxes to preach "tolerance" of all "lifestyles" are typically the most intolerant of all. It is easy enough to prove: simply tell such preachers of intolerance that you have an opposite opinion. Pleasant it is to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril. Lucretius To kill someone, even treacherously is more manly than to wound a friend by betraying his confidence. Who knows whether, If I had given up smoking, I should really have become the strong perfect man I imagined? Perhaps it was this very doubt that bound me to my vice, because life is so much pleasanter if one is able to believe in one's own latent greatness. Tears throw a veil over our faults and allow us to accuse fate without fear or contradiction. Everyone remembers his past with greater vividness as the present becomes more important. Dying men in their last delirium are supposed to see their whole life spread out before them. And it is true that life lacks the monotony of museums. There come days which seem worthy of being framed, but they are so full of conflicting sounds, of line and color and living, burning light that they never become tedious.
Italo Svevo
If some books are deemed most baneful and their sale forbid, how then with deadlier facts, not dreams of doting men? Those whom books will hurt will not be proof against events. Events, not books should be forbid. Herman Melville History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there. George Santayana If you're goin' to be a bear... be a grizzly!
Gene Sturlin
There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others. Niccolo Machiavelli
How can I write moral novels? I didn't find heroic people around me.
Beijing novelist Wang Shuo
The human mind treats a new idea the way the body treats a strange protein - it rejects it. P. Medawar If a young man is to get through puberty gracefully, he must first destroy his conscience. I kept on digging the hole deeper and deeper looking for the treasure chest until I finally lifted my head, looked up and realised that I had dug my own grave.
Dominic
The politer the society, the greater the lies it requires.
Lincoln Steffens
I thank whatever Gods may be for my unconquerable soul.
William Ernest Henley
Some people will not tolerate such emotional honesty in communication. They would rather defend their dishonesty on the grounds that it might hurt others. Therefore, having rationalized their phoniness into nobility, they settle for superficial relationships.
We come, we come with horn of drum: ta-runda runda runda rom! To Isengard! Though Isengard be ringed and barred with doors of stone;
We go, we go, we go to war, to hew the stone and break the door;
To land of gloom with tramp of doom, with roll of drum, we come, we come; To Isengard with doom we come!
J. R. R. Tolkien
The moon by day, and the sun by night Blind woman, deaf man, jackdaw fool Let the Lord of Chaos rule
Robert Jordan
Brothels with bricks of Religion. The pride of the peacock is the glory of God. The lust of the goat is the bounty of God. The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God. The nakedness of woman is the work of God. Excess of sorrow laughs. Excess of joy weeps. The roaring of lions, the howling of wolves, the raging of the stormy sea, and the destructive sword, are portions of eternity too great for the eye of man.
William Blake
The attempt to silence a man is the greatest honor you can bestow on him. It means that you recognize his superiority to yourself. Joseph Sobran Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment of spirit. It cannot, like adultery or gluttony, be practiced at spare moments; it is a whole-time job. W. Somerset Maugham History repeats itself because nobody listens. (contributed by Bobby) As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand. Josh Billings The savages are upon me and I feel my flesh burn beneath the teeth of their indifference.
Jewel
Saints should always be judged guilty until proven innocent. George Orwell It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions. Daniel Defoe A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says, "I was beaten"; he does not say, "My men were beaten." Antoine de Saint-Exupéry A transition from an author's book to his conversation is too often like an entrance into a large city, after a distant prospect. Remotely, we see nothing but spires of temples and turrets of palaces, and imagine it the residence of splendour, grandeur, and magnificence; but when we have passed the gates, we find it perplexed with narrow passages, disgraced with despicable cottages, embarrassed with obstructions, and clouded with smoke. Samuel Johnson It is as true to say that God is permanent and the World fluent, as that the World is permanent and God is fluent. It is as true to say that God is one and the World many, as that the World is one and God many. It is as true to say that, in comparison with the World, God is actual eminently , as that, in comparison with God, the World is actual eminently. It is as true to say that the World is immanent in God, as that God is immanent in the World. It is as true to say that God transcends the World, as that the World transcends God. It is as true to say that God creates the World, as that the World creates God.
Alfred North Whitehead
God does not think; he creates. He does not exist; he is eternal. S. Kierkegaard The primary question about life after death is not whether it is a fact, but even if it is, what problems that really solves. Ludwig Wittgenstein Faith is believing something you know ain't true. Mark Twain We should be agnostic about those things for which there is no evidence. We should not hold beliefs merely because they gratify our desires for afterlife, immortality, heaven, hell, etc.
Julian Huxley
Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind. C. S. Lewis The essence of wisdom is to remain suspicious of what you want to be true. Never, never pin your whole faith on any human being: not if he is the best and wisest in the whole world. There are lots of nice things you can do with sand; but do not try building a house on it.
C. S. Lewis
A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.
C. S. Lewis
There comes a moment when people who have been dabbling in religion ('man's search for God'!) suddenly draw back. Supposing we really found Him? We never meant it to come to that! Worse still, supposing He had found us?
C. S. Lewis
If you love God, burn the church. Jello Biafra I have said I have met Satan, and this is true. But it is not tangible. It no more has horns, hooves and a forked tail than God has a long white beard. Even the name, Satan, is just a name we have given to something basically nameless. M. Scott Peck I have a dream today. I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together. This is our hope. This is the faith with which I return to the South. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
He that increases knowledge increaseth sorrow. the Bible An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have only heard one side of the case. God has written all the books. Samuel Butler We may not pay Satan reverence, for that would be indiscreet, but we can at least respect his talents. Mark Twain To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one's own free choice, death at the proper time, with a clear head and with joyfulness, consummated in the midst of children and witnesses: so that an actual leave-taking is possible while he who is leaving is still there.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Hollywood and Disneyland are the legacy of Europe's cultural imperialism. We gave them nursery rhymes and they gave back film. Televised riots are as American as Barbie/ Big Macs. Tomorrow the riots will be forgotten but Mickey mouse will still be there. Welcome to Disneyland.
Richey James Edwards
It's better to burn out than to fade away.
Neil Young and Crazy Horse
He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster... when you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
Wer mit Ungeheuern kampft, mag zusehn,
Friedrich Nietzsche Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals. War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.
George Orwell
I was lied to when I was told life was fair, that someone would always be there, people cared about how I felt, I was unhappy with the cards I was dealt. When I was a child, my castle was my home, now I'm walking empty streets, memories and me alone. More's been said in silence than can ever be spoken in words. Secrets shared, and promises kept, and feeling they'll never return.
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The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity. To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task. Friedrich Nietzsche All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie? Friedrich Nietzsche But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. George Orwell I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan is a fiction. The Christian god may exist; so may the gods of Olympus, or of ancient Egypt, or of Babylon. But no one of these hypotheses is more probable than any other: they lie outside the region of even probable knowledge, and therefore there is no reason to consider any of them. Bertrand Russell A Roman Catholic worships a god who speaks through the Pope, while a Baptist worships a god who does not. They cannot be worshipping the same god.
Judith Hayes If a plane crashes and 99 people die while 1 survives, it is called a miracle. Should the families of the 99 think so?
Judith Hayes Life can be beautiful, profound, and awe-inspiring, even without an irate god threatening us with eternal torment.
Judith Hayes We are not accountable for the sins of "Adam". Robert G. Ingersoll Martyrs have been sincere. And so have tyrants. Wise men have been sincere. And so have fools.
E. Haldeman-Julius If there is a God, atheism must strike Him as less of an insult than religion. Edmond and Jules de Goncourt
Eskimo: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?"
There was a time when religion ruled the world. It is known as the Dark Ages.
Ruth Hermence Green Faith in God necessarily implies a lack of faith in humanity.
Barbara G. Walker One final snag in the "Bible only" view is this: the Bible itself teaches that moral truths are revealed outside the Scriptures.
C. Stephen Layman It ain't the parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand. Mark Twain The fiercest enemy is the man who has nothing more to lose. The X-Files Don't unlock doors you're not prepared to go through. The X-Files If you have the arrogance of a god and can kill like a god, who's to say you are not a god? Baldur's Gate Hell lives a life of its own, losing itself never from its existence, loving those whom it hurts, hurting those whom it loves.
Patrick A. Woodard
Why does man not see things? He is himself standing in the way: he conceals things.
Friedrich Nietzsche What is new, however, is always evil, being that which wants to conquer and overthrow the old boundary markers and the old pieties; and only what is old is good. The good men are in all ages those who dig the old thoughts, digging deep and getting them to bear fruit - the farmers of the spirit. But eventually all land is depleted, and the ploughshare of evil must come again and again.
Friedrich Nietzsche We cannot tempt fate without eventually getting scorched by it. Ana Veciana-Suarez If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Cast your whole vote, not a piece of paper merely, but your whole influence. A minority is powerless when it conforms to a majority; but is irresistable when it clogs by its whole weight. If the alternative is to keep all just men in prison, or give up war and slavery, the State will not hesitate which to choose.
Henry David Thoreau
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness. Dalai Lama The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. Friedrich Nietzsche I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures. Chief Justice Earl Warren Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them. Ralph Waldo Emerson The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places. Ernest Hemingway Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think. Arthur Shopenhauer Religion is a candle inside a multicolored lantern. Everyone looks through a particular color, but the candle is always there. Mohammed Neguib Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.
Ignazio Silone Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.
Bergen Evans Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous. Thornton Wilder |
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