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“Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.”
"All hope abandon, ye who enter here."
— Dante
"War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner."
— Cormac McCarthy
"We are a way for the cosmos to know itself."
— Carl Sagan
"The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself."
"Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes."
— Carl Jung
"If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world."
— C.S. Lewis
"Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are."
— Bertolt Brecht
"I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them."
— Spinoza
"Philosophy begins in wonder. And at the end when philosophic thought has done its best the wonder remains."
— Alfred Whitehead
"There, did you think to kill me? There's no flesh or blood within this cloak to kill. There's only an idea.Ideas are bulletproof. Farewell."
— Alan Moore
"We are not self-caused little gods."
— Sam Harris
"Theology is ignorance with wings."
"Just as there is no such thing as Christian physics or Muslim Algebra, we will see tht there is no such thing as Christian or Muslim morality."
"When I got untethered from the comfort of religion, it wasn't a loss of faith for me, it was a discovery of Self."
— Brad Pitt
"People are like waves of the ocean, some cover you with tides of refreshment, whilst others drown you in floods of turmoil"
— Ali ibn Abi Talib
"I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man."
— Zhuangzi
"..the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man."
— Yann Martel
"We are random animals. That is who we are, and we have only ourselves, nothing more--there is no greater relationship."
"The most frightful of all spectacles is the strength of the civilization without its mercy."
— Sir Winston Churchill
"If one has to submit it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible."