Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not.
- George Bernard Shaw
" Do you know how to make God laugh? Tell him your future plans.
Do you know how to make God laugh even harder? Tell him your future plans for your kid(s). "
Any book worth banning is a book worth reading
- Isaac Asimov
We are atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
- Richard Dawkins
Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder’s than any other agency in the world.
- Richard Le Gallienne
Love is for the lucky and the brave.
It is true that liberty is precious, but is it so precious it must be rationed?
Any belief worth having must survive doubt
The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.
Embrace change.
Going with the flow will make your transition ever so much easier.
Don't fret. All your friends will be able to zig when you zag.
Avert misunderstanding by calm, poise, and balance.
Allow compassion to guide your decisions.
There's no such thing as an ordinary person.
No one can walk backwards into the future.
Who is without a flaw?
Anger begins with folly, and ends with regret.
The world may be your oyster, but it doesn't mean you'll get its pearl.
Don't just think, act!
If you don't have time to live your life now, when will you?
A mind is like a parachute - it only works when it's open
Accept something that you cannot change, and you will feel better.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Strive to be the person that your dog believes you are.
- Bumper Sticker of the Month
It has been said that a miracle is the result of causes with which we are unacquainted. Once these causes are discovered we no longer have a miracle, but natural law...In a way, all dislike the laws of nature. We should prefer to make things happen in the more direct way in which savage people imagine them to happen, through our own invocation.
- Robert Parrish
The Magician's Handbook
Freethinking is thinking for yourself, unconstrained by deference to tradition or authority.
- John B. Hodges
The cost of scientific advance is the humbling recognition that reality was not constructed to be easily grasped by the human mind. This is the cardinal tenet of scientific understanding. Our species and its ways of thinking are a product of evolution, not the purpose of evolution.
- Edward O. Wilson
"Back From Chaos" - The Atlantic Monthly March 1998
Americans are the best entertained and the least informed people in the world.
- Neil Postman
Violence is the first refuge of the incompetent.
- Isaac Asimov
In all things it is better to hope than to despair.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved through understanding.
- Albert Einstein
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can still do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
- Edward Everett Hale
Patriotism means being loyal to your country all the time and to its government when it deserves it.
- Mark Twain
I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
- Socrates
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper.
- Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
"A philosopher," said the theologian, "is like a blind man looking in a dark room for a black cat which isn't there.
"Yes," replied the philosopher, "and if I were a theologian, I'd find the cat!"
- Attributed to Aldous Huxley
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fear, fraud, greed, imagination and poetry.
- Edgar Allen Poe
"What lies behind us and what lies before are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"There is nothing so absurd that it cannot be believed as truth if repeated often enough."
- William James
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
- Aldous Huxley
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
- Seneca, Greek Philosopher
Life is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming.
- Matthew Arnold
Who are the learned? They who practice what they know.
- Mohammed
We know the truth, not only by reason, but also by the heart.
- Blaise Pascal
Teachers open the door...you enter by yourself.
- Chinese proverb
When you are crossing the desert, plant trees, for you may be coming back the same way in your old age when you will be glad of the shade.
- Persian proverb
Believe nothing merely because you have been told it, or it has been traditional, or because you yourself have imagined it. Believe whatsoever you find to be conducive to the good, to benefit the welfare of others.
- Buddha
So whatever you wish that men would do to you, do so to them.
- Jesus
Many people reach their conclusions about life like lazy school children. They copy the answers from the back of the book without troubling to work out the sum for themselves.
- Kierkegaard
I'm sort of fluctuating between what I used to be and what I am.
- Jane Howard
I do the very best I know how - the very best I can - and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.
- Abraham Lincoln
There is nothing permanent except change
- Heraclitus (circa 500 BCE)
Money can buy a fine dog but it is kindness that makes him wag his tail.
There seems scarcely any limit to what could be done in the way of producing a good world, if only men would use science wisely.
- Bertrand Russell
The death of dogma is the birth of reason.
- Immanuel Kant
Belief is harder to shake than knowledge.
- Adolf Hitler
What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well a half hour?
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The recipe for perpetual ignorance is very simple: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
- Elbert Hubbard
"They were apes only yesterday."
"Give them time."
"Once an ape-always an ape."
"No, it will be different...Come back here in an age or so and you shall see..."
- The gods, discussing the Earth, in the motion picure version of H. G. Wells The Man Who Could Work Miracles (1936)
One should always keep an open mind, but not so open that one's brains fall out.
- Bertrand Russell
When your heart is pure, your mind is clear.
- George Bernard Shaw
" Do you know how to make God laugh? Tell him your future plans.
Do you know how to make God laugh even harder? Tell him your future plans for your kid(s). "
Any book worth banning is a book worth reading
- Isaac Asimov
We are atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
- Richard Dawkins
Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder’s than any other agency in the world.
- Richard Le Gallienne
Love is for the lucky and the brave.
It is true that liberty is precious, but is it so precious it must be rationed?
Any belief worth having must survive doubt
The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.
Embrace change.
Going with the flow will make your transition ever so much easier.
Don't fret. All your friends will be able to zig when you zag.
Avert misunderstanding by calm, poise, and balance.
Allow compassion to guide your decisions.
There's no such thing as an ordinary person.
No one can walk backwards into the future.
Who is without a flaw?
Anger begins with folly, and ends with regret.
The world may be your oyster, but it doesn't mean you'll get its pearl.
Don't just think, act!
If you don't have time to live your life now, when will you?
A mind is like a parachute - it only works when it's open
Accept something that you cannot change, and you will feel better.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Strive to be the person that your dog believes you are.
- Bumper Sticker of the Month
It has been said that a miracle is the result of causes with which we are unacquainted. Once these causes are discovered we no longer have a miracle, but natural law...In a way, all dislike the laws of nature. We should prefer to make things happen in the more direct way in which savage people imagine them to happen, through our own invocation.
- Robert Parrish
The Magician's Handbook
Freethinking is thinking for yourself, unconstrained by deference to tradition or authority.
- John B. Hodges
The cost of scientific advance is the humbling recognition that reality was not constructed to be easily grasped by the human mind. This is the cardinal tenet of scientific understanding. Our species and its ways of thinking are a product of evolution, not the purpose of evolution.
- Edward O. Wilson
"Back From Chaos" - The Atlantic Monthly March 1998
Americans are the best entertained and the least informed people in the world.
- Neil Postman
Violence is the first refuge of the incompetent.
- Isaac Asimov
In all things it is better to hope than to despair.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved through understanding.
- Albert Einstein
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can still do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
- Edward Everett Hale
Patriotism means being loyal to your country all the time and to its government when it deserves it.
- Mark Twain
I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
- Socrates
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper.
- Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
"A philosopher," said the theologian, "is like a blind man looking in a dark room for a black cat which isn't there.
"Yes," replied the philosopher, "and if I were a theologian, I'd find the cat!"
- Attributed to Aldous Huxley
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fear, fraud, greed, imagination and poetry.
- Edgar Allen Poe
"What lies behind us and what lies before are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"There is nothing so absurd that it cannot be believed as truth if repeated often enough."
- William James
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
- Aldous Huxley
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
- Seneca, Greek Philosopher
Life is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming.
- Matthew Arnold
Who are the learned? They who practice what they know.
- Mohammed
We know the truth, not only by reason, but also by the heart.
- Blaise Pascal
Teachers open the door...you enter by yourself.
- Chinese proverb
When you are crossing the desert, plant trees, for you may be coming back the same way in your old age when you will be glad of the shade.
- Persian proverb
Believe nothing merely because you have been told it, or it has been traditional, or because you yourself have imagined it. Believe whatsoever you find to be conducive to the good, to benefit the welfare of others.
- Buddha
So whatever you wish that men would do to you, do so to them.
- Jesus
Many people reach their conclusions about life like lazy school children. They copy the answers from the back of the book without troubling to work out the sum for themselves.
- Kierkegaard
I'm sort of fluctuating between what I used to be and what I am.
- Jane Howard
I do the very best I know how - the very best I can - and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.
- Abraham Lincoln
There is nothing permanent except change
- Heraclitus (circa 500 BCE)
Money can buy a fine dog but it is kindness that makes him wag his tail.
There seems scarcely any limit to what could be done in the way of producing a good world, if only men would use science wisely.
- Bertrand Russell
The death of dogma is the birth of reason.
- Immanuel Kant
Belief is harder to shake than knowledge.
- Adolf Hitler
What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well a half hour?
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The recipe for perpetual ignorance is very simple: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
- Elbert Hubbard
"They were apes only yesterday."
"Give them time."
"Once an ape-always an ape."
"No, it will be different...Come back here in an age or so and you shall see..."
- The gods, discussing the Earth, in the motion picure version of H. G. Wells The Man Who Could Work Miracles (1936)
One should always keep an open mind, but not so open that one's brains fall out.
- Bertrand Russell
When your heart is pure, your mind is clear.
