Life Quotes

Nevertheless, (Jefferson) believed that the habit of skepticism is an essential prerequisite for responsible citizenship. He argued that the cost of education is trivial compared to the cost of ignorance, of leaving government to the wolves. He taugh...

Carl Sagan

There is much that science doesn't understand, many mysteries still to be resolved. In a Universe tens of billions of light-years across and some ten or fifteen billion years old, this may be the case forever. We are constantly stumbling on new surpr...

Carl Sagan

A misleading perception or false belief is increasingly being perpetuated that the unconscious or the intuitive is all that really matters in any spiritual endeavor, and that the conscious, rational, logical, analytical mind is the mortal enemy of sp...

Anthon St. Maarten

Since I am not actually a real human being, my emotional responses are generally limited to what I have learned to fake.

Jeff Lindsay

Some allies are more dangerous than enemies.

George R.R. Martin

I do not need any friends. I prefer enemies. They are better company and their feelings towards you are always genuine.

Dylan Thomas

MacKensie, much as men don't like to share this fact, we rarely die from not getting off.

Cherise Sinclair

This life is a wading pool compared to the ocean call eternity.

Todd Stocker

But I try not to think with my gut. If I’m serious about understanding the world, thinking with anything besides my brain, as tempting as that might be, is likely to get me into trouble. Really, it’s okay to reserve judgment until the evidence is...

Carl Sagan

Much that may seem evil can be good.

George R.R. Martin

They had set forth to rid their town of evil and had managed to rid it of pleasure as well.

Angel Cox

The root of humanly caused evil is not man's animal nature, not territorial aggression, or innate selfishness, but our need to gain self-esteem, deny our mortality, and achieve a heroic self-image. Our desire for the best is the cause of the worst.

Sam Keen

One of the great commandments of science is, 'Mistrust arguments from authority'. (Scientists, being primates, and thus given to dominance hierarchies, of course do not always follow this commandment.)

Carl Sagan

Man cannot endure his own littleness unless he can translate it into meaningfulness on the largest possible level.

Sam Keen

the best existential analysis of the human condition leads directly into the problems of God and faith

Sam Keen

Be careful what you're doing, because no one is ever who you want them to be. And the less you really know them, the more likely you are to confuse them with the girl or boy in your head.

Rachel Cohn

[A] person whose head is bowed and whose eyes are heavy cannot look at the light.

Christine de Pizan

God is the ultimate judge of what is truly in our souls. But we are requiered to forgive everyone.

Bree Despain

Family, like arsenic, works best in small doses...unless you prefer to die.

Rachel Cohn

While his brain lay slowly dying, Bevan felt his body come back to life.

Stephanie Bedwell-Grime

Of course, that’s how life is. A turn of events may seem very small at the time it’s happening, but you never really know, do you? How can you?

Tom Xavier