Sometimes there are no good guys. There are no bad guys. It seems like everybody is in the middle.
Jim MattisContradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.
Blaise PascalOnly a man’s character is the real criterion of worth.
Eleanor RooseveltMy theory is 98 percent of all human endeavor is killing time.
Jerry SeinfeldWhat then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.
Marcus Tullius CiceroIntegrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
Samuel JohnsonWhen we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
John MuirAny fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
Henry David ThoreauI glory in the distinguishing grace of God and will not, by the grace of God, step one inch from my principles or think of adhering to the present fashionable sort of religion.
Charles SpurgeonAs flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.
William ShakespeareLet us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.
Friedrich NietzscheIt is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.
Friedrich NietzscheWe’re all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.
Tennessee WilliamsSometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
Albert EinsteinMan – a being in search of meaning.
PlatoA man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will’s freedom after it.
Aldous HuxleyThe world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
William JamesGod is a concept by which we measure our pain.
John LennonFriendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
C. S. LewisHonor thy error as a hidden intention.
Brian EnoAll religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.
Albert EinsteinIf it’s true that our species is alone in the universe, then I’d have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.
George CarlinSincere words are not fine; fine words are not sincere.
Lao TzuMy philosophy is: It’s none of my business what people say of me and think of me.
Anthony HopkinsAll human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.
Edmund BurkeLight thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.
Terry PratchettThe only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
Albert CamusWithout feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?
ConfuciusDon’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
Tennessee WilliamsEvil is whatever distracts.
Franz KafkaI still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think.
Friedrich NietzscheA man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.
Albert CamusAt first when I heard about climate change, I was a climate denier. I didn’t think it was happening. Because if there really was an existential crisis like that, that would threaten our civilisation, we wouldn’t be focusing on anything else. That would be our first priority. So I didn’t understand how that added up.
Greta ThunbergHe who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.
Lao TzuI don’t know which will go first – rock ‚n‘ roll or Christianity.
John LennonForce always attracts men of low morality.
Albert EinsteinWould that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.
Khalil GibranAnybody can be specific and obvious. That’s always been the easy way. It’s not that it’s so difficult to be unspecific and less obvious; it’s just that there’s nothing, absolutely nothing, to be specific and obvious about.
Bob DylanNon-violence is the article of faith.
Mahatma GandhiI’m completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.
George CarlinAs far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
Carl JungTo the man who reads ‚Scouting for Boys‘ superficially, there is a disappointing lack of religion in the book. But to him who tries it in practice, the basic religion underlying it soon becomes apparent.
Robert Baden-PowellNo man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.
Theodore RooseveltHonor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.
Arthur SchopenhauerIt is right to give every man his due.
PlatoThe greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.
Mother TeresaLife is wasted on the living.
Douglas AdamsCulture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.
Mahatma GandhiSurely our job while we’re here on Earth is to learn about the world, not to create parallel universes.
David HareA little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.
Francis BaconSeemingly, man has learned to live without God, preoccupied and indifferent toward Him and concerned only about material security and pleasure.
Billy GrahamMan the individual consoles himself for his passing with the thought of the offspring or the works which he leaves behind.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinThought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, – till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another.
Thomas CarlyleNothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
Edmund BurkeI remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy.
Bertrand RussellWisdom is found only in truth.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheI believe in the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.
Lou HoltzIt matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
Samuel JohnsonThe worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
AristotleAll these walls that keep us from loving each other as one family or one race – racism, religion, where we grew up, whatever, class, socioeconomic – what makes us be so selfish and prideful, what keeps us from wanting to help the next man, what makes us be so focused on a personal legacy as opposed to the entire legacy of a race.
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