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In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.
Eric Hoffer Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself. Richard M. Nixon Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters. Isaac Bashevis Singer All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field. Albert Einstein Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.
Laurens Van der Post Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.
Leonardo Da Vinci The question isn't "who is going to let me"; it's "who is going to stop me".
Ayn Rand I desire to go to Hell, not to Heaven. In Hell I shall enjoy the company of popes, kings and princes, but in Heaven are only beggars, monks, hermits and apostles. Niccolo Machiavelli Before I sink into the big sleep, I want to hear the scream of the butterfly.
Jim Morrison
Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile.
William Sunday
Forgive, O Lord, any little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.
Robert Frost
You know how they say "Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger?" Well that's a crock... the truth is whatever doesn't kill you is your Life. Bobbie Spencer We live in a rainbow of chaos. Paul Cezanne Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel? Alexander Pope Many Christians base the belief of a soul and God upon the Bible. Strictly speaking, there is no such book. To make the Bible, sixty-six books are bound into one volume. These books are written by many people at different times, and no one knows the time or the identity of any author. Some of the books were written by several authors at various times. These books contain all sorts of contradictory concepts of life and morals and the origin of things. Between the first and the last nearly a thousand years intervened, a longer time than has passed since the discovery of America by Columbus.
Clarence Darrow ...finally men were saved only through God's son dying for them, and that unless human beings believed this silly, impossible and wicked story they were doomed to hell? Can anyone with intelligence really believe that a child born today should be doomed because the snake tempted Eve and Eve tempted Adam? To believe that is not God-worship; it is devil-worship.
Clarence Darrow The fear of God is not the beginning of wisdom. The fear of God is the death of wisdom. Skepticism and doubt lead to study and investigation, and investigation is the beginning of wisdom. The modern world is the child of doubt and inquiry, as the ancient world was the child of fear and faith.
Clarence Darrow
Now hollow fires burn out to black,
Alexander Pope ...You have to pass an exam, and the jobs that you get are either to shine shoes, or to herd cows, or to tend pigs. Thank God, I don't want any of that! Damn it! And besides that they smack you for a reward; they call you an animal and it's not true, a little kid, etc... Oh! Damn Damn Damn Damn Damn! Arthur Rimbaud Cry havoc and let loose the dogs of war!
William Shakespeare
When discord dreadful bursts her brazen bars, Horace
This world is like Noah's Ark. Samuel Butler Christ rode on an ass, but now asses ride on Christ. Heinrich Heine Misery motivates, not utopia.
Karl Marx
Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
Horace
The only difference between God and Adolf Hitler is that God is more proficient at genocide. Any belief worth having must survive doubt. Obey Psalms 137:9! On the sixth day God created man. On the seventh day, man returned the favor. Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day; Give him a religion, and he'll starve to death while praying for a fish. If god doesn't like the way I live, let him tell me, not you. The world holds two classes of men - intelligent men without religion, and religious men without intelligence. Abu'l-Ala-Al-Ma'arri, (973-1057; Syrian poet) If you pray for rain long enough, it eventually does fall. If you pray for floodwaters to abate, they eventually do. The same happens in the absence of prayers. Steve Allen ...if I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of their lives and not the pattern of their words. I think he would prefer an honest and righteous atheist to a TV preacher whose every word is God, God, God, and whose every deed is foul, foul, foul. Isacc Asimov I am not responsible for what other people think. I am responsible only for what I myself think, and I know what that is. No idea I've ever come up with has ever struck me as a divine revelation. Nothing I have ever observed leads me to think there is a God watching over me.
Isacc Asimov People everywhere enjoy believing things that they know are not true. It spares them the ordeal of thinking for themselves and taking responsibility for what they know.
Brook Atkinson Often a non-Christian knows something about the earth, the heavens, and the other parts of the world, about the motions and orbits of the stars and even their sizes and distances,... and this knowledge he holds with certainty from reason and experience. It is thus offensive and disgraceful for an unbeliever to hear a Christian talk nonsense about such things, claiming that what he is saying is based in Scripture. We should do all that we can to avoid such an embarrassing situation, which people see as ignorance in the Christian and laugh to scorn.
St. Augustine If anyone can show me, and prove to me, that I am wrong in thought or deed, I will gladly change. I seek the truth, which never yet hurt anybody. It is only persistence in self-delusion and ignorance which does harm. Marcus Aurelius Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.
Francis Bacon People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy." Mikhail A. Bakunin The very concept of sin comes from the bible. Christianity offers to solve a problem of its own making! Would you be thankful to a person who cut you with a knife in order to sell you a bandage?
Dan Barker You can cite a hundred references to show that the biblical God is a bloodthirsty tyrant, but if they can dig up two or three verses that say "God is love," they will claim that *you* are taking things out of context!
Dan Barker Without "The Law of Moses" would we all be wandering around like little gods, stealing, raping, and spilling blood whenever our vanity was offended?
Dan Barker You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help?
Dan Barker Miracles happen to those who believe in them. Otherwise why does not the Virgin Mary appear to Lamaists, Mohammedans, or Hindus who have never heard of her. Bernard Berenson I don't see how you have the nerve to oppose this bill when you run the biggest gambling business in the world - gambling on the hereafter.
Loring M. Black, Congressman from New York The world presents enough problems if you believe it to be a world of law and order; do not add to them by believing it to be a world of miracles. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis And don't tell me God works in mysterious ways... There's nothing so mysterious about it. He's not working at all. He's playing. Or else He's forgotten all about us. That's the kind of God you people talk about - a country bumpkin, a clumsy, bungling, brainless, conceited, uncouth hayseed. Good God, how much reverence can you have for a Supreme Being who finds it necessary to include such phenomena as phlegm and tooth decay in His divine system of creation? What in the world was running through that warped, evil, scatalogical mind of His when He robbed old people of the power to control their bowel movements? Why in the world did He ever create pain?
Joseph Heller God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed. Luis Buquel If someone were to prove to me - right this minute - that God, in all his luminousness, exists, it wouldn't change a single aspect of my behavior. Luis Buquel The idea that a good God would send people to a burning Hell is utterly damnable to me. The ravings of insanity! Superstition gone to seed! I don't want to have anything to do with such a God. No avenging Jewish God, no satanic devil, no fiery hell is of any interest to me. Luther Burbank Do not feed children on maudlin sentimentalism or dogmatic religion; give them nature... Do not terrify them in early life with the fear of an after-world. Never was a child made more noble and good by the fear of a hell.
Luther Burbank Let us read the Bible without the ill-fitting colored spectacles of theology, just as we read other books, using our own judgment and reason, listening to the voice within, not to the noisy babel without. Most of us possess discriminating reasoning powers. Can we use them or must we be fed by others like babes? Luther Burbank The idea that a good God would send people to a burning hell is utterly damnable to me. I don't want to have anything to do with such a God. But while I cannot conceive of such a God, I do recognize the existence of a great universal power -- a power which we cannot even begin to comprehend and might as well not attempt to. It may be a conscious mind, or it may not. I don't know. As a scientist I should like to know, but as a man, I am not so vitally concerned. Luther Burbank As for Christ - well, he has been most outrageously belied. His followers, like those of many scientists and literary men, have so garbled his words and conduct that many of them no longer apply to present life. Christ was a wonderful psychologist. He was an infidel of his day because he rebelled against the prevailing religions and government. I am a lover of Christ as a man, and his work and all things that help humanity, but nevertheless just as he was an infidel then, I am an infidel today. Luther Burbank The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself. Sir Richard F. Burton Awe is a large flower, but a short-lived one. Besides, when God cracks a joke or two and clearly hopes you'll ask him over for a drink, you lose respect. If God wants worship, he'd better stay lonely. If he wants love, he'll have to eat shit with the rest of us.
Jack Butler It is death, and not what comes after death, that men are generally afraid of. Samuel Butler A man with the humblest of means will cling to life like a leech on a pig's ass. But a man with nothing cannot know fear. Malachi ex Sanguinius There will come a time when our silence will be louder than the voices you strangle today.
Albert Apies
Each snowflake in an avalanche pleads not guilty. Stanislaw J. Lec Have the courage to act instead of react. Earlene Larson Jenks Nothing is more tedious than the dreaming platitude. Karl Marx
When the truth walks away, everybody stays
The Offspring No one assaults me with impunity.
Motto of the Black Watch (Scots elite guards)
The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth. G. C. Lichtenberg Do you believe in telepathy? No? Then what are you doing when you pray? Reverend Charles Moore Looked at sky through smoke heavy with human fat and God was not there. The cold, suffocating dark goes on forever and we are alone. Live our lives, lacking anything better to do; Devise reason later. Born from Oblivion, bear children, hell-bound as ourselves, go into Oblivion. There is nothing else. Existence is random; has no pattern save what we imagine after staring at it too long; no meaning save what we choose to impose. This rudderless world is not shaped by vague metaphysical forces. It is not God who kills the children. Not Fate that butchers them or Destiny that feeds them to the dogs. It's us. Only us.
Alan Moore, Watchmen
There are two kinds of light--the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures. James Thurber No actual tyrant known to history has ever been guilty of one-hundredth of the crimes, massacres, and other atrocities attributed to the Deity in the Bible.
Steve Allen Naturally, since [the Sumerians] didn't know what caused the flood anymore than we do, they blamed the gods. (That's the advantage of religion. You're never short an explanation for anything.)
Isaac Asimov Religious Cult: The church down the street from yours.
Johnny Hart The Believer had better face himself and ask squarely: Do I literally believe "God" has a penis? If the answer is no, then it seems only logical to drop the ridiculous practice of referring to "God" as "he." Robert Anton Wilson
If the radiance of a thousand suns
The Bhagavad-Gita As a parent, I [also] realize what my role is in protecting my child from influences that might have a disturbing effect... I cannot sit back and hope that the government or some public interest groups will protect her; that responsibility is up to my wife and myself alone. As soon as we as a society abdicate our personal responsibility towards protecting and caring for our children we give up our basic freedoms as Americans; freedoms that have been hard fought and even harder won. As parents, we must look into our own backyards and see what our children are doing and become more personally involved with their activities, ideas and friends. Drew Markham, creator of Kingpin: Life of Crime People the world over sleep peacably in their beds at night because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. George Orwell For some reason or other man looks for the miracle, and to accomplish it he will wade through blood. He will debauch himself with ideas, he will reduce himself to a shadow if for only one second of his life he can close his eyes to the hideousness of reality. Everything is endured--disgrace, humiliation, poverty, war, crime, ennui--in the belief that overnight something will occur, a miracle, which will render life tolerable.
Henry Miller It's silly to go on pretending that under the skin we are all brothers. The truth is more likely that under the skin we are all cannibals, assassins, traitors, liars, hypocrites, poltroons. Henry Miller Question with boldness even the existence of a God, because if he exists, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blind-folded fear.
Thomas Jefferson
Why did I not die at birth; come forth from the womb and expire? Job 3:11 There comes a time in every man's life when he's consumed by the desire to spit on his palms, hoist the black flag and start cutting throats. Henry Louis Mencken A Christian is one who follows the teachings of Christ so long as they are not inconsistent with a life of sin. Ambrose Bierce All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours. Aldous Huxley I do not approve of a word you say but will defend to the death your right to say it. Voltaire He who doesn't fear death dies only once. Giovanni Falcone Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people's business. ... I think all the religious leaders will forgive me because I think that's what religion's about. I haven't started any wars throughout time. Has religion? Jesse Ventura What sense or thought do they have? They follow the popular singers, and they take the crowd as their teacher. Heraclitus I keep a conscience uncorrupted by religion, a judgment undimmed by politics and patriotism, a heart untainted by friendships and sentiments unsoured by animosities. Ambrose Bierce It is amazing how childishly gullible humans are. There are, for example, so many different religions - each of them claiming to have the truth, each saying that their truths are clearly superior to the truths of others - how can someone possibly take any of them seriously? I mean, that's insane. And such insanity concerns me, especially now that waves of lunacy are washing over the United States and the world in the form of millennial cults... The crazy thing is, according to traditional Christian dogma, the real millennium was four years ago, for Jesus was supposedly born circa 5 B.C.E. - so it's already 2004! Apparently some millennial nuts are blithely ignoring their own dogma. Arthur C. Clarke Keep the company of those who seek the truth, and run from those who have found it. Vaclav Havel Frankenstein took some flesh and bones and blood and made a man out of them; the man ran away and fell to raping and robbing and murdering everywhere, and Frankenstein was horrified and in despair, and said, "I made him, without asking his consent, and it makes me responsible for every crime he commits. I am the criminal, he is innocent." ... [That's exactly] the case of God and man... God made man, without man's consent, and made his nature, too; made it vicious instead of angelic, and then said, "Be angelic, or I will ill punish you and destroy you." But no matter, God is responsible for everything man does, all the same; He can't get around that fact. There is only one Criminal, and it is not man. Mark Twain Intelligent men do not decide any subject until they have carefully examined both or all sides of it. Fools, cowards, and those too lazy to think, accept blindly, without examination, dogmas and doctrines imposed upon them in childhood by their parents, priests, and teachers, when their minds were immature and they could not reason. James Hervey Johnson There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity. Schopenhauer When there are rational grounds for an opinion, people are content to set them forth and wait for them to operate. In such cases, people do not hold their opinions with passion; they hold them calmly, and set forth their reasons quietly. The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holder's lack of rational conviction. Bertrand Russell Sex and excretion are reminders that anyone's claim to round-the-clock dignity is tenuous. The so-called rational animal has a desperate drive to pair up and moan and writhe. Steven Pinker Is not all life pathetic and futile? ...We reach. We grasp. And what is left in our hands at the end? A shadow. Or worse than a shadow - misery. Sherlock Holmes There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot successfully be put into equations, because it is nonsense. C. Truesdell Everyone wants to be foremost in this future-and yet death and the stillness of death are the only things certain and common to all in this future! How strange that this sole thing that is certain and common to all, exercises almost no influence on men, and that they are the furthest from regarding themselves as the brotherhood of death! It makes me happy to see that men do not want to think at all of the idea of death! Friedrich Nietzsche What good fortune for those in power that people do not think. Adolph Hitler |
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