I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.
Thomas CarlyleExistence precedes and rules essence.
Jean-Paul SartreBeing no bigot myself to any mode of worship, I am disposed to endulge the professors of Christianity in the church, that road to heaven which to them shall seem the most direct plainest easiest and least liable to exception.
George WashingtonIt is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
VoltaireWho is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
Benjamin FranklinI believe there are no questions that science can’t answer about a physical universe.
Stephen HawkingEvery man is his own hell.
H. L. MenckenI want to do a certain thing in the world, and I am going to do it with unwavering concentration. I am concerning myself with only one essential thing: to set man free. I desire to free him from all cages, from all fears, and not to found religions, new sects, nor to establish new theories and new philosophies.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiNo one’s policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about things, and a philosophy comes.
Terry PratchettNothing is more dangerous to one’s own faith than the work of an apologist. No doctrine of that faith seems to me so spectral, so unreal as one that I have just successfully defended in a public debate.
C. S. LewisThose convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.
Dale CarnegieThere is nothing permanent except change.
HeraclitusEvery man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?
Henry David ThoreauThe noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
Leonardo da VinciSorry, I’m still a dialectical materialist.
Fidel CastroLife is warfare.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaI believe God gives you the grace to do what you need to do.
Joel OsteenPessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
Golda MeirEverything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that’s how we’ve got to live.
Haruki MurakamiTo you I’m an atheist; to God, I’m the Loyal Opposition.
Woody AllenThe greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.
Blaise PascalSince God created the world, He also created reality.
Pope FrancisReligions get lost as people do.
Franz KafkaYou should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.
Martin LutherHow happy had it been for me had I been slain in the battle. It had been far more noble to have died the victim of the enemy than fall a sacrifice to the rage of my friends.
Alexander the GreatIf being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that… I believe in what I do, and I’ll say it.
John LennonThere is no such thing as Something for nothing.
Napoleon HillOne of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people’s minds.
Frank ZappaThe art of being a slave is to rule one’s master.
DiogenesBecause I believe in God and have faith in God, it doesn’t mean I am immortal. It doesn’t mean I am immune, as has been claimed. I am as scared as anyone of getting hurt, especially driving a Formula One car.
Ayrton SennaFaith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.
Blaise PascalMen often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.
Blaise PascalI don’t believe in nepotism. I don’t much like the idea of parents who interfere.
Anthony HopkinsNothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.
Baruch SpinozaThere are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor.
H. L. MenckenFriendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
C. S. LewisNothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
Immanuel KantLife without liberty is like a body without spirit.
Khalil GibranGod is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.
Friedrich NietzscheI have already demonstrated, by crucial tests, the practicability of signaling by my system from one to any other point of the globe, no matter how remote, and I shall soon convert the disbelievers.
Nikola TeslaSmall amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.
Francis BaconIt is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.
EpicurusWhen you become a Christian, something truly amazing happens: God comes to live inside your heart. You become the home of God.
Joyce MeyerI believe that God has planted in every heart the desire to live in freedom.
George W. BushFreedom does not die from frontal attack. It dies because men in power no longer believe in a system based upon liberty.
Herbert HooverEach one of them is Jesus in disguise.
Mother TeresaRules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.
Franklin D. RooseveltThought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.
Aldous HuxleyNothing in life is promised except death.
Kanye WestThe future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
C. S. LewisIt is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.
Friedrich NietzscheMan is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.
Gilbert K. ChestertonIf you are part of a religion that very strongly insists that you believe then to decide not to do that is quite a big hurdle to jump over. You never forget the thought process you went through. It becomes part of your whole intellectual picture.
Brian EnoMan is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheTo believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
VoltaireThe fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I, therefore, intend to oppose the effort to increase America’s debt.
Barack ObamaDo not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.
ConfuciusI would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn’t, than live as if there isn’t and to die to find out that there is.
Albert CamusThe old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
Oscar WildeOpen-minded people tend to be interested in Buddhism because Buddha urged people to investigate things – he didn’t just command them to believe.
Dalai Lama