“Religion is fundamentally opposed to everything I hold in veneration – courage, clear thinking, honesty, fairness, and above all, love of the truth” – Henry …
“Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.” – George Bernard Shaw
“”I have done that,” says my memory. “I cannot have done that” — says my pride, and remains adamant. At last — memory yields.” – …
“Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death” – Moliere
“I cannot say that there is any reason to fear death; I’ve yet to meet anyone who’s been through it come back to complain about …
“I have not observed men’s honesty to increase with their riches.” – Thomas Jefferson
“Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.” – Buddha
“It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.” – Aristotle
“There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves …
“Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity” – Michel de Montaigne
“Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.” – St. Thomas Aquinas
“In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the …
“Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you’d have good people doing good things and evil people doing bad things, but …
“Honesty is such a lonely wordEveryone is so untrueHonest is hardly ever heardAnd mostly what I need from you.” – Billy Joel
“It is an odd thing, but every one who disappears is said to be seen at San Francisco. It must be a delightful city, and …
“Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.” – Andre Gide
“Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.” – George Bernard Shaw
“I can believe anything provided it is incredible.” – Oscar Wilde
“Respect your fellow human being, treat them fairly, disagree with them honestly, enjoy their friendship, explore your thoughts about one another candidly, work together for …
“Absolute honesty is as absurd an abstraction as an absolute temperature or an absolute value.” – George Bernard Shaw
“Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven’s wonders.” – Louis D. Brandeis
“We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they’re called memories. Some take us forward, they’re called dreams.” – Jeremy Irons
“The chief foundations of all states… are good laws and good arms. And as there cannot be good laws where there are not good arms… …
“Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.” – Albert Einstein
“Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable… Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern …
“The best measure of a man’s honesty isn’t his income tax return. It’s the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.” – Arthur C. Clarke
“The belief that one’s own view of reality is the only reality is the most dangerous of all delusions” – Paul Watzlawick
“Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and consciencious stupidity.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
“There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.” – Bryant H. McGill
“Sometimes I think we’re alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we’re not. In either case the idea is quite staggering.” – Arthur C. …
“I’ve won hundreds at the track, but I’m not betting on the afterlife.” – Jenny Lewis
“I’m astounded by people who want to ‘know’ the universe when it’s hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.” – Woody Allen
“Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get familiar …
“Man is a piece of the universe made alive” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.” – Richard J. Needham
“Peace is its own reward.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“The way to secure liberty is to place it in the people’s hands, that is, to give them the power at all times to defend …
“I don’t believe in an afterlife, so I don’t have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the …
