I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than
you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible
gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.
- Stephen F Roberts
Faith means not wanting to know what's true
- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietsche
He who knows not
And knows not that he knows not
Is a fool, shun him.
He who knows not
And knows that he knows not
Is a child, teach him.
He who knows
And knows that he knows
Is wise, follow him. - Persian Proverb
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
- Ocsar Wilde
Man has survived, hitherto, by virtue of ignorance and inefficiency.
- Bertrand Russell
An intelligence that is not humane is the most dangerous thing in the world.
- Ashley Montagu
One dog barks at something, and a hundred bark at the sound.
- Chinese Proverb
Men always love what is good or what they find good; it is in judging what
is good that they go wrong.
- Rousseau
"Why are we going in there again, daddy?"
"Shut up," his father explained.
- Ring Lardner
We have been given two ears and but a single mouth, in order that we may hear
more and talk less.
- Zeno of Citum
No one is so wrong as the man who knows all the answers.
- Thomas Merton
A philosopher riding through the countryside on a train once leaned over to
peer long and hard out the window. When asked what he saw, he
replied that he was looking at a half of twenty sheep and that he was
wondering how he could find out about the other half.
I know that you believe
you understand
what you think I said,
but
I am not sure you realize
that
what you heard
is not
what I
meant. - Anonymous
We only think when we are confronted with a problem.
- John Dewey
Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.
- Racine
Hell is -- other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre
And some seeds fell upon a conveyor-belt and were carried into a factory,
where they were processed, refrigerated, and sterilized.
- Arnold Toynbee
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us
by what we have done.
- Longfellow
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the
world.
- Schopenhauer
Although Omar Khayyam may have claimed that the results of his studies were
that he "evermore came out by the same door as I went," he neglected
to notice that he was facing a different direction when he came out.
- Ronald Huntington
He who knows does not speak; he who speaks does not know.
- Tao Teh Ching (56:1)
It is much easier to bury a problem than to solve it.
- Wittgestein
When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble a nail.
- Abraham Maslow
"There's no use in trying," said Alice: "one can't believe impossible things."
"I dare say you haven't had much practice," said the Queen. "When I was
your age I always did it for half an hour a day. Why sometimes I've
believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."
- Lewis Caroll
There are many forms of life in space. Many forms of death too.
- Space 1999
We are all children in a vast kindergarden trying to spell God's name with
the wrong alphabet blocks.
- Tennesse Williams "Suddenly Last Summer"
"Now Captain Pike has his illusions and you have your realities. May your
way be as pleasant."
- Star Trek "The Menagerie"
The trouble with living on a planet is that it tends to make most of the
inhabitants think small.
- Larry Niven
Belief is not the beginning but the end of all knowledge.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
In time of war the first casualty is truth.
- Boake Carter
Je pense, et puis je suis.
- Descartes
"Again, it is a question of attitudes, my dear. Is the prisoner a prisoner
because he lives in a cage or because he knows that he lives in a cage?"
- Michael Moorcock "The End of All Songs"
We often think that when we have completed our study of one we know all about
two because 'two' is 'one and one.' We forget that we still have to
make a study of 'and.'
- A. S. Eddington
A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live at the expense
of the rascals who work to live.
- Voltaire
When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign;
all the dunces are in confederacy against him.
- Johnathan Smith
If there were a verb meaning "to believe falsely," it would not have any
significant first person, present indicative.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.
- Florynce Kennedy
Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance to the problem.
- John Galsworthy
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove
anything.
- Friedrich William Nietzsche
Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
- Don Marquis
I was once thrown out of a mental hospital for depressing the other patients.
- Oscar Levant
Once the people begin to reason, all is lost.
- Voltaire
Beware of the man who's God is in the skies.
- George Bernard Shaw
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
- Anatole France
Cynic, n, A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are,
not as they ought to be.
- Ambrose Bierce
The trouble with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain
the second time around.
- Herb Caen
The only real happy folk are married women and single men.
- H. L. Mencken
Television - a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
- Ernie Kovaks
Every law is an infraction of liberty.
- Jeremy Bentham
I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend
to waste mine running around doing exercises.
- Neil Armstrong
History is bunk.
- Henry Ford
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
- Bertrand Russell
Love ain't nothing but sex misspelled.
- Harlan Ellison
I think I think; therefore I think I am.
- Ambrose Bierce
The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds,
and the pessimist knows it is.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer
I did not attend his funeral, but I wrote a nice letter saying I approved of it.
- Mark Twain
Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.
- Laurence J. Peter
So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise
of intelligence.
- Bertrand Russell
Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell
Woman was God's second mistake.
- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietsche
War is just capitalism with the gloves off.
- ?
Life: "is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."
- William Shakespeare
Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggy...' until you can find a rock.
- anonymous
Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.
- Comte de Bussy-Rabutin
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove
all doubt.
- Abraham Lincoln
Such is the human race, often it seems a pity that Noah ... didn't miss
the boat.
- Mark Twain
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought
which they seldom use.
- Kierkegaard
I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened
of the old ones.
- John Cage
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
- Henry Adams
Religion is necessary because it keeps the poor people from killing
the rich people.
- Napoleon
The trouble with the world is the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent
are full of doubt.
- Bertrand Russell
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
- Tolstoy
If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
- John Galworthy
"Now what, I say, what's the big idea bashin' me on the noggin with a rollin'
pin? Clunk enough people and we'll have a nation of lumpheads."
-- Foghorn Leghorn
"I like a sneaky lil' old underhanded weasel like you."
-- Foghorn Leghorn
"Cum'on, boy, we got work to do." -- Foghorn Leghorn
"Yeah, yeah, sure, sure - work." -- Weasel
"Fortunately, I keep my feathers numbered for just such an emergency."
-- Foghorn Leghorn
"Ho! Ha-ha! Guard! Turn! Parry! Dodge! Spin! Ha! Thrust!"
-- Daffy Duck
"Consequences, shmonsequences! So long as I'm rich!"
-- Daffy Duck
"Mine! Mine! It's all mine!"
-- Daffy Duck
"Hankerin' for trouble, eh? Well I would like--"
[aside] "I would like? I would like a trip to Europe!"
"--I would like..."
-- Daffy Duck, "Dripalong Daffy"
"Go on! Shoot me again! I enjoy it! I love the smell of burnt feathers
and gunpowder and cordite!"
-- Daffy Duck, "Duck! Rabbit! Duck!"