Do not believe in anything simply because it it spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything simply on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find anything that agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it" - Buddha
"The kingdom of God does not come with careful oberservation, nor will people say,'Here it is,' or 'There it is,' because the kingdom of God is within you." - Yeshua of Nazarene (Luke 17:20-21)
Know Thyself. - Socrates
I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.- Socrates
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantess the others. -Aristole
There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare
Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest. - Napolean
There are worse crimes than burning books.
One of them is not reading them. - Napolean
I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty- Albert Einstien
If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say I am German and Germany will declare that I am a Jew. - Albert Einstien
Lack of money is the root of all evil. - George Bernard Shaw
A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us. - W.H. Auden
Good advice is a something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example. - Count Rochefoucauld
God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avlancjes, and a thousand temptest and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.
- John Muir
I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter. - Winston Churchill
May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that "faith" is even more dificult for Him than it is for us?- W.H. Auden
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