IMMORTAL QUOTATIONS

"Being a philosopher,
I have a problem for every solution."
- Robert Zend

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress deprends on the unreasonable man."
- George Bernard Shaw

"I don't know if God exists, but it it would be better for his reputation if he didn't."
- André Gide

"America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization."
- George Clemenceau

"Life is intrinsically boring, and dangerous at the same time - at any given moment the floor may open up. Of course, it almost never does; that's what makes it so boring."
- Edward Gorey

"The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other going in the opposite direction."
- George Carlin

"If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things."
- Rene Descartes

"Heaven, as conventionally conceived, is a place so inane, so dull, so useless, so miserable that nobody has ever ventured to describe a whole day in heaven, though plenty of people have described a day at the seaside."
- George Bernard Shaw

"Every actual state is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt."
- Lord Alfred Tennyson

"What you do speaks so loudly I cannot hear what you say."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Believe those who are seeking truth; doubt those who find it."
- André Gide

"Homo sapiens, the first truly free species, is about to decommission natural selection, the force that made us....soon we must look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become."
- Edward O. Wilson

"Monotony is the awful reward of the careful."
- Unknown

"Life in Lubbock, Texas taught me two things: One is that God loves you and you're going to burn in hell. The other is that sex is the most awful, filthy thing on earth and you should save it for someone you love."
- Butch Hancock

"In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"To do good is noble.
To teach others to do good is nobler still,
and less trouble."
- Mark Twain

"A friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive."
- Anaïs Nin

"You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm."
- Colette

"Think of it : zillions and zillions of organisms running around, each under the hypnotic spell of a single truth, all these truths identical, and all logically incompatible with one another: 'My hereditary material is the most important material on earth; its survival justifies your frustration, pain, even death'. And you are one of those organisms, living your life in the thrall of a logical absurdity."
- Robert Wright, The Moral Animal

"Heaven for climate, hell for society."
- Mark Twain

"Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see."
- Arthur Schopenhauer

"Only your friends will tell you when your face is dirty."
- Sicilian proverb

"Eventually, every single pattern of functionally organized sentience ought to be lovingly tended, nurtured, and treasured."
- David Pearce, The Hedonistc Imperative

“Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them.”
- Peter Ustinov

"The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; the pessimist fears this is true."
- James Branch Cabell

"Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none."
- Shakespeare

"Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies."
- Friedrich Nietzsche

"For why is all around us here,
As if some lesser god had made the world,
But had not force to shape it as he would?"
- Lord Alfred Tennyson, Idylls of the King

"Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives."
- John Stuart Mill

"The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr."
- Mohammed

"It's a scandal that all our government has done in the last 20 years is to try to find a pain killer that won't make you feel good."
- Timothy Leary

"Live simply, so that others may simply live."
- Unknown

"A true friendship is as wise as it is tender. The parties to it yield implicitly to the guidance of their love, and know no other law nor kindness."
- Thoreau

"Life is an unavoidable exercise in bad taste."
- Anonymous

"Joyous distrust is a sign of health. Everything absolute belongs to pathology."
- Friedrich Nietzsche

"I believe in the religion of reason -- the gospel of this world; in the development of the mind, in the accumulation of intellectual wealth, to the end that man may free himself from superstitious fear, to the end that he may take advantage of the forces of nature to feed and clothe the world."
- Robert G. Ingersoll

"If I owned both Hell and Texas, I'd live in Hell and rent out Texas."
- Mark Twain

"Whoso would be a man must also be a non-conformist...nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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