Quotes of: Edgar Keyword

Be prepared. A dog is adorable and noble. A dog is a true and loving friend. A dog is also a hedonist.

Dog Songs

Dying in the line of duty is heroic, but dying while unemployed is just stupid.

Death Note, Vol. 5: Whiteout

I came to explore the wreck. / The words are purposes. / The words are maps. / I came to see the damage that was done / and the treasures that prevail.

Diving Into the Wreck

There are some among the so-called elite who are overbearing and arrogant. I want to foster leaders, not elitists.

Discussions on Youth

In God we trust. All others [must] have data. - Bernard Fisher

The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

Death is not the worst thing; rather, when one who craves death cannot attain even that wish.

Electra

If abandoned rage asks, / Say, the very blood of our lives eats composure up.

The End of the Alphabet: Poems

Forge your iron; shape it by force, not into a flower you already know but into what can also be a flower if you think it is and it is so.

Education by Stone

What she really wanted [...] was [...] "to experience every emotion to the limit" so she could go beyond every limit.

Eurydice in the Underworld

Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire.

Farming: a hand book

In Bobby Ogle's version of heaven everyone would wind up in one place, criminals and Muslims included.

Flight Behavior

The density of the butterflies in the air now gave her a sense of being underwater, plunged into a deep pond among bright fishes.

Flight Behavior

Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.

The Future of an Illusion (The Standard Edition)

We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives, Who thinks most, feels noblest, acts the best.

Festus: A Poem

The greatness of the object enabled my mind to support what my strengths of body was scarce equal to.

The First Salute

Weakness, like not being able to bury the past. Weakness, like not giving up hope when you know you should.

Fuse

She let him go once. Every day demands that she release him over and over again.

Fuse

Love is a luxury. It's something that people are allowed to indulge in when they're not simply trying to survive and keep other people alive.

Fuse

We can give up belief in God while not losing touch with a treasured heritage.

The God Delusion

Faith can be very very dangerous, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an innocent child is a grievous wrong.

The God Delusion

Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.

The God Delusion