| "The unexamined life is not worth living" - Socrates "Going from being in the dark to finding the light is not an easy process" - Nicholas Smith "The highest love is wherein man lays down his life for his fellow-men" - Gandhi "Of all created creatures man is the most detestible. Of the entire brood he is the only one that possesses malice. Also he is the only creature that has a nasty mind" - Mark Twain "Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason" - Oscar Wilde "Man is absolutely not the crown of creation: every creature stands beside him at the same stage of perfection." Nietzsche "Most of the more complex emotions are common to the higher animals and ourselves" - Charles Darwin "Man is a biodegradable but not recyclable animal blesses with opposable thumbs capable of grasping at straws" - Bernard Rosenberg "It is simply the mind clouded over by impure desires and impervious to wisdom, that obstinately persists in thinking of 'me' and 'mine'" - Buddha "No one would choose the whole world on the condition of being alone" - Aristotle "Man is not only a social animal, but an animal which can develop into an individual only in society" - Karl Marx "Reality, however, has a sliding floor." - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world" - Ralph Waldo Emerson "We only think when we are confronted with a problem" - John Dewey "Cogito Ergo Sum" - Rene Descartes "If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him" - Voltaire "Maybe the existence of the Earth is not part of God's plan" - Peter Van Inwagen "If God wanted to leave a sign that he created the universe and he existed in it, he would have created some incredibly beautiful universe with exceptionally good moral human beings, rather than this chaos where we have to struggle to survive" - Nick Smith "Either this God doesn't exist or he's not very good. Why is he sitting there in his heaven watching the people in those box cars roll off to concentration camps in the 1940's?" - Nick Smith "Most intellectual people do not believe in God, but they fear him just the same" - Wilhelm Reich "To say, 'Do not decide, but leave the question open,' is itself a decision - just like deciding yes or no, - and is attended with the same risk of losing the truth" - William James "As for me, all I know is that I know nothing" - Socrates "How do I know but that there is no earth, no heaven, no place, and that nevertheless these seem to exist just exactly as I now see them? How do I know that I am not decieved every time I add two and three, or count the sides of a square?" - Rene Descartes "No man knows anything distinctly, and no man ever will" - Xenophanes "Knowledge is the knowing that we cannot know" - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Science has nothing to do with the quest for certainty or probability or reliability" - Karl Popper "The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enimy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility" - C.C. Colton "Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is quite ripe" - Pascal "There are four sorts of men: He who knows not and knows not he knows not; he is a fool - shun him. He who knows not and knows he knows not; he is simple - teach him He who knows and knows not he knows; he is asleep - wake him He who knos and knows he knows; he is wise - follow him" - Lady Burton "All wickedness is weakness" - John Milton "There is nothing either good or bad, But thinking makes it so" - William Shakespeare "It is no easy task to be good" - Aristotle "It is harder to fight against pleasure than against anger." - Aristotle "Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction" - Pascal "Nothing is evil which is according to nature" - Marcus Aurelius "Do not do unto others as you would they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same" - Bernard Shaw "Do not talk about what a good man is, but be one" - Marcus Aurelius |