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These are quotes that I find interesting and thought provoking. Enjoy.


"For man the unexamined life is not worth living." - Socrates

"We are what we think, having become what we thought." - The Dhammapada


"Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel." - Horace Walpole


"I cannot believe that God plays dice with the cosmos." - Albert Einstein


"The cosmos is all there is or ever will be." - Carl Sagan


"Religion is a theory of man's relation to the universe." - S.P. Haynes


"Religion is the ritual cultivation of socially accepted values." - John Fischer


"If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent him." - Voltaire


"The lonelier I am, the more of a recluse I become, the greater is my love of myths." - Aristotle


"Man needs the unfathomable and the infinite just as much as he does the small planet which he inhabits." - Dostoevsky


"No one is so wrong as the man who knows all the answers." - Thomas Merton


"The last creature in the world to discover water would be the fish, precisely because he is always immersed in it." - Ralph Linton


"We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


"The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursuing his own education." - John Gardner


"Sooner or later, life makes philsophers of us all." - Maurice Riseling


"In youth we learn; in age we understand." - Marie von Ebner Eschenbach


"We have to live today by what truth we can get today, and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood." - William James


"The eyes believe themselves; the ears believe other people." - author unknown






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Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.
		Buddha

In the beginning the universe was created.  This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
		Douglas Adams

There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable

There is another theory which states that this has already happened
		Douglas Adams

The important thing is science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.
		Sir William Bragg

The one who loves the least, controls the relationship
		Robert Anthony

Science is nothing but perception
		Plato

Self-preservation is the first law of nature
		Samuel Butler

Every man has the right to risk his own life for the preservation of it. 
		John Jacques Rousseau




Donıt worry about people stealing your ideas.  If your ideas are any good, youıll have to ram them down peopleıs throats.
		Howard Aiken

That in the soul which is called the mind is, before it thinks, not actually any real thing.
		Aristotle

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself.  Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others.
		Thomas Jefferson

That government is best which governs least.
		Thomas Paine

If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.
		Henry David Thoreau

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.
		Voltaire

I hold it in the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.
		Robert Frost

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other/
		Eric Hoffer

The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.
		John Stuart Mill

Maybe its other peopleıs reactions to us that make us who we are.
		David Duchovney


If an individual is born with the obligation to obey, who is born with the right to command?
		Tom G. Palmer

Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.
		Charles Boudelaire

The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds.
		Jawaharial Nehru

Art like morality, consists in drawing a line somewhere.
		Gilbert K. Chesterton

As long as I donıt write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything.
		Beaumarchais

Only the suppressed world is dangerous.
		Ludwig Borne

Take away the right to say Fuck and you take away the right to say Fuck the government 
		Lenny Bruce

The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words.  If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.
		Philip K. Dick

The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
		Gloria Leonard

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.
		William Shakespeare


Censorship reflects a societyıs lack of confidence in itself.
		Potter Stewart

I may disapprove of what you say, nut I will defend to the death your right to say it. 
		Voltaire

We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.
		Voltaire

The rash assertion that ³God made man in his own image² is ticking like a time bomb at the foundations of many faiths, and as the hierarchy of the universe is disclosed to us, we may have to recognize this chilling truth: if there are any gods whose chief concern is man, they cannot be very important gods.
		Arthur C. Clarke

Every saint has a past and every sinner a future
		Oscar Wilde

Faith is best defined as expecting the best until the worst has been proved
		Gerald Ensley

Does the grass bend when the wind blows upon it?
		Confucius

Man is by nature a purposive creature, who develops neuroses when purpose is denied him
		Colin Wilson

Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believe
		Walter Lippman



In shallow ponds, even little fish can stir up a commotion, In the oceans, the largest whales make hardly a ripple.
		Hindu proverb


Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil - not the strength to choose between the two.
		John Cheever

When written in Chinese, the word ³crisis² is composed of two characters - one represents danger, and the other represents opportunity.
		John F. Kennedy

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived
		Gen. George S.  Patton Jr.

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.
		A. Sachs

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
		Harriet Beecher Stowe

The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.  To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is secret which but few discover.
		Joseph Addison

Governments do not give people rights.  The people give government power in order to protect their preexisting rights.
		Colorado Attorney Generalıs Office 1993

A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.
		Gerald R. Ford

...this would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it
		John Adams


Religion is the perfect justification for tyranny, because it doesnıt require an ounce of reason or a shed of proof.
		Anonymous

An athiest is a man who has no invisible means of support
		John Buchan

The bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
		Samuel Butler

The trouble with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around.
		Herb Caen

Religion is all bunk
		Thomas Edison

Science w/o religion is lame; religion w/o science is blind
		Albert Einstein

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason , and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
		Galileo Galilei

Wisdom begins where the fear of God ends
		Andre Gide

If you really want to make a lot of money, start your own religion.
		L. Ron Hubbard

Let us put theology out of Religion.  Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.
		Robert G. Ingersoll

The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentlemen who reads it .
		Robert G. Ingersoll

Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind - folded fear.
		Thomas Jefferson

Give a man a fish, and youıll feed him for a day.  Give him a religion, and heıll starve to death while praying for the fish.
		Timothy Jones

The church says that the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the church. 
		Ferdinand Magellan

Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.
		H.L. Mencken

I respect faith but doubt is what gets you an education.
		Wilson Mizner

³Faith² means not wanting to know what is true.
		Friedrich Nietzsche

My mind is my own church
		Thomas Paine

So far I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
		Bertrand Russell
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