“Have you ever noticed how ‘What the hell’ is always the right decision to make?”
― Terry Johnson, Insignificance
*Needs fact-checking. Authenticity not guaranteed.
“Sometimes I lie awake at night and I ask, "Is life a multiple choice test or is it a true or false test?" ...Then a voice comes to me out of the dark and says, "We hate to tell you this but life is a thousand word essay.”
― Charles M. Schulz
“I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.”
― Baruch Spinoza
“A cult is a religion with no political power.”
― Tom Wolfe
“Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war.”
― Norman Mailer
“I almost had a psychic girlfriend, but she left me before we met.” –Steven Wright
Violence is as American as cherry pie.
- H. Rap Brown
“...when dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases. ”
― Robert Anton Wilson, Cosmic Trigger Volume I: Final Secret of the Illuminati
“No passion is stronger in the breast of a man than the desire to make others believe as he believes. Nothing so cuts at the root of his happiness and fills him with rage as the sense that another rates low what he prizes high.”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando
“Son, never trust a man who doesn’t drink because he’s probably a self-righteous sort, a man who thinks he knows right from wrong all the time. Some of them are good men, but in the name of goodness, they cause most of the suffering in the world. They’re the judges, the meddlers. And, son, never trust a man who drinks but refuses to get drunk. They’re usually afraid of something deep down inside, either that they’re a coward or a fool or mean and violent. You can’t trust a man who’s afraid of himself. But sometimes, son, you can trust a man who occasionally kneels before a toilet. The chances are that he is learning something about humility and his natural human foolishness, about how to survive himself. It’s damned hard for a man to take himself too seriously when he’s heaving his guts into a dirty toilet bowl.”
― James Crumley
“The life of the enemy . Whoever lives for the sake of combating an enemy has an interest in the enemy's staying alive.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
“Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing.”
― Lao Tzu
“No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.”
― Karl Popper
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It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
Jonathan Swift
Irish essayist, novelist, & satirist (1667 - 1745)
“The trouble was that he was talking in philosophy but they were listening in gibberish.”
― Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
“A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it.”
― H.L. Mencken
“Fate isn’t one straight road…there are forks in it, many different routes to different ends. We have the free will to choose the path.”
― Dean Koontz, Odd Thomas
Or, as Yogi says, "When you come to a fork in the road, take it."
“The truth always carries the ambiguity of the words used to express it.”
― Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune
