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I was reading about how countless species are being pushed toward extinction by man's destruction of forests... Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.- Calvin & Hobbes, a comic strip by Bill Watterson, cartoonist, born 1958 CE
If all the insects on earth disappeared, within 50 years all life on earth would disappear. If all humans disappeared, within 50 years all species would flourish as never before.- Jonas Salk, an American medical researcher and virologist, known for first polio vaccine, born 1914 CE, Russian-Jewish
Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' Vanity asks the question, 'Is it popular?' But, conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?' And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but one must take it because one's conscience tells one that it is right.- Martin Luther King, Jr., minister and reformer, born 1929 CE, Baptist
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.- Leonardo Da Vinci, an Italian polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, botanist and writer, born 1452 CE
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.- Carl Jung, a Swiss psychiatrist, an influential thinker and the founder of analytical psychology, born 1875
When we talk to God, we're praying. When God talks to us, we're schizophrenic.- Jane Wagner, an American writer, director and producer, born 1935 CE
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.- Steven Weinberg, an American physicist and Nobel laureate in Physics, born 1933 CE
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.- Friedrich Nietzsche, a German philosopher and classical philologist, born 1844 CE
What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof.- Christopher Hitchens, an English-American author and journalist, born 1949 CE
If we go back to the beginning, we shall find that ignorance and fear created the gods; that fancy, enthusiasm, or deceit adorned them; that weakness worships them; that credulity preserves them and that custom, respect and tyranny support them in order to make the blindness of men serve their own interests. If the ignorance of nature gave birth to gods, the knowledge of nature is calculated to destroy them.- Baron D’Holbach, a French-German author, philosopher, and encyclopedist, born 1723 CE, Atheist
We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes.- Gene Roddenberry, an American screenwriter, producer and futurist, born 1921 CE
After I’m dead I’d rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.- Cato the Elder, Roman statesman, born 234 BCE
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.- George Bernard Shaw, playwright, critic, political activist, born 1856 CE
The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.- George Bernard Shaw, playwright, critic, political activist, born 1856 CE
I won’t teach a man who is not eager to learn, nor will I explain to one incapable of forming his own ideas. Nor have I anything more to say to those who, after I have made clear one corner of the subject, cannot deduce the other three.- Confucius, Chinese thinker and social philosopher, born 551 BCE
It's good to trust others but, not to do so is much better. We become strong, I feel, when we have no friends upon whom to lean, or to look to for moral guidance.- Benito Mussolini, born 1883 CE, Roman Catholic
Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs. I trust no one, not even myself.- Joseph Stalin, born 1878 CE, Atheist
There is nothing in the holy fountains but water; I know, for I’ve been swimming in them. There is nothing in the holy books but works, I know for I have been looking through them.- Kabir (Kabira), reformer, born 1440 CE
What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, man would die from a great loneliness of spirit. For whatever happens to the beasts, soon happens to man. All things are connected.- Chief Seattle (Sealth), statesman, philosopher, born 1780 CE
O servant, where dost thou seek Me? Lo! I am beside thee. I am neither in temple nor in mosque: I am neither in Kaaba nor in Kailash: Neither am I in rites and ceremonies, nor in Yoga and renunciation. If thou art a true seeker, thou shalt at once see Me: thou shalt meet Me in a moment of time. Kabîr says, O Sadhu! God is the breath of all breath.(From “Songs of Kabir,” translated by Rbindranath Tagore)
- Kabir (Kabira), reformer, born 1440 CE
Yes I am [a Hindu]. I am also a Christian, a Muslim, a Buddhist and a Jew.- Ghandi (Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi), lawyer, reformer, born 1869 CE, Hindu
Speak out, you’ve got to speak out against the madness. You’ve got to speak your mind if you dare.- Crosby, Stills and Nash, recorded 1969 CE, no professed religion
We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.- Martin Luther King, Jr., minister and reformer, born 1929 CE, Baptist
Goodwill toward all beings is the true religion! Cherish in your hearts boundless goodwill toward all that lives!- Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama), prince, reformer, born 563 BCE, founder of Buddhism
You naturally love those who are dear to you, and you must learn to give that kind of love to the whole world.- Paramahansa Yogananda, swami, yogi, born 1893 CE, Bengali kshatriya
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.- Dalai Lama (Jetsun Jamphel Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso born Lhamo Döndrub), religious leader statesman, born 1935 CE, Tibetan Buddhist
Religions are all alike - founded upon fables and mythologies. Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because if there be one he must approve of the homage of reason more than that of blindfolded fear. So far as religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake... Religion is all bunk.- Thomas Jefferson, third President of the United States, born 1743 CE
I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church. All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.- Thomas Paine, born 1737 CE
The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason. Lighthouses are more helpful than churches. I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life, I absented myself from Christian assemblies.- Benjamin Franklin, scientist, writer, politician, born 1706 CE
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.- Napoleon Bonaparte, military and political leader of France, born 1769 CE
It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.- Carl Sagan, astronomer, astrochemist, author, born 1934 CE, Agnostic
Men never commit evil so fully and joyfully as when they do it for religious convictions.- Blaise Pascal, mathematician, physicist, and religious philosopher, born 1623 CE
Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.- Epicurus, an ancient Greek philosopher and the founder of the school of philosophy called Epicureanism, born 341 BCE
Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?
Faith is believing something you know ain't true. It ain't the parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.- Mark Twain, author and humorist, born 1910 CE
The church says the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the church.- Ferdinand Magellan, navigator and explorer, born 1521 CE
The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.- George Bernard Shaw, playwright, critic, political activist, born 1856 CE
And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence.- Bertrand Russell, philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, and social critic, born 1970 CE
The world holds two classes of men - intelligent men without religion, and religious men without intelligence.- Abu al-Ala' al-Ma’arri, Arab philosopher, born 973 CE, Rationalist
