“In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.”
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“To you, I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.”
Woody Allen
“We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age.”
Thomas B. Macaulay
“The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.”
Aldous Huxley
“Fear is the mother of morality.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“The important thing is not to stop questioning; curiosity has its own reason for existing.”
Albert Einstein
“Wonder is the desire for knowledge.”
Thomas Aquinas
“The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.”
Confucius
“For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.”
William Penn
“Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.”
J. R. R. Tolkien
“It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.”
John F. Kennedy
“It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only.”
William Blake
“It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.”
Henry David Thoreau
“Belief is the death of intelligence.”
Robert Anton Wilson
“Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place.”
Josh Billings
“There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.”
J. Paul Getty