Re: Good quotes
Posted: 13 May 2010
Wilson Mizener wrote:
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
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Wilson Mizener wrote:
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
Idol worship is closely related to the absence of freedom.
Martin Luther King Jr wrote:
Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.
William Shakespeare wrote:
A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
Buddha wrote:
He who for the sake of happiness hurts others who also want happiness, shall not hereafter find happiness.
Professor Ralph Hood, (Psychology of Religion) wrote:
The main difference between a prophet and a psychopath, is whether or not they can get followers.
Osho wrote:
Obedience needs no intelligence. All machines are obedient. Nobody has ever heard of a disobedient machine.
Obedience is simple, too. It takes the burden off you of any responsibility. There is no need to react, you have simply to do what is being said. The responsibility rests with the source from where the order comes. In a certain way you are very free: you cannot be condemned for your act.
John Bradshaw wrote:
My transformation cannot be gained without cost. They require my learning to live the rest of my days in the ambiguity of knowing that all that I am, I am also the opposite. I cannot rid myself of my demons without risking that my angels will fly along with them.
"An Indian warrior riding fiercely, human scalps hanging at his belt."
"An Indian warrior riding fiercely, human scalps hanging at his belt."
H. L. Mencken wrote:
Doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell.
The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines they know to be untrue to people they knows to be idiots.
Steve Wright wrote:Atheism is a non-prophet organisation
Laughter kills fear,
without fear, there it is not faith,
without faith, what the need of God for?