“Your God person puts an apple tree in the middle of a garden and says, do what you like, guys, oh, but don't eat the apple. Surprise surprise, they eat it and he leaps out from behind a bush shouting "Gotcha". It wouldn't have made any difference if they hadn't eaten it.'
'Why not?'
'Because if you're dealing with somebody who has the sort of mentality which likes leaving hats on the pavement with bricks under them you know perfectly well they won't give up. They'll get you in the end.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
“Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social enviroment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions."
(Essay to Leo Baeck, 1953)”
― Albert Einstein
“Philosophy [nature] is written in that great book which ever is before our eyes -- I mean the universe -- but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols in which it is written. The book is written in mathematical language, and the symbols are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without whose help it is impossible to comprehend a single word of it; without which one wanders in vain through a dark labyrinth.”
― Galileo Galilei
“the worst part about being lied to is knowing you werent worth the truth”
― Jean-Paul Sartre
“What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir
@edgarblythe,
“We are addicted to our thoughts. We cannot change anything if we cannot change our thinking.”
― Santosh Kalwar, Quote Me Everyday
“You cannot reason people out of a position that they did not reason themselves into.”
― Ben Goldacre, Bad Science
“I walk through the old yellow sunlight
to get to my kitchen table
the poem about me
lying there with the books
in which I am listed
among the dead and future Dylans”
― Leonard Cohen, The Energy of Slaves
“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
― George Orwell
“The more I learn about the universe, the less convinced I am that there's any sort of benevolent force that has anything to do with it, at all.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson
“I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure.”
― Mae West
“A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.”
― Gilles Deleuze, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
“There is nobility in the struggle, you don't have to win.”
― Sharon Pollock
“If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.”
― John Lennon
@edgarblythe,
There would be peace if everybody stopped producing war machines.
Traces of Texas
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The Texas Quote of the Day was overheard last night at my local watering hole:
"Indecision may or may not be our biggest problem."
----- random bar patron in Austin to another random bar patron in Austin
@edgarblythe,
When you learn wisdom in a bar, that's the epitome of education.
