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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