George's quotes

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"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: books, soul
11,185 people liked it

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
— Albert Einstein

tags: einstein, human, humor, infinity, nature, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
12,101 people liked it

"The world is my country,
all mankind are my brethren,
and to do good is my religion."
— Thomas Paine

tags: god, life
124 people liked it

"I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day."
— Douglas Adams

tags: atheism, intelligence
179 people liked it

"All thinking men are atheists."
— Ernest Hemingway (A Farewell to Arms)

tags: atheism, inspirational
113 people liked it

"For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum. I am my own god. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us."
— Charles Bukowski

tags: atheism, religion
273 people liked it

"Epicurus's old questions are still unanswered: Is he willing to prevent evil, but not able? then he is impotent. Is he able, but not willing? then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? then whence evil?"
— David Hume (Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion)

tags: atheism
10 people liked it

"All logical arguments can be defeated by the simple refusal to reason logically"
— Steven Weinberg (Dreams of a Final Theory)

6 people liked it

"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt."
— Abraham Lincoln

tags: wisdom
9,303 people liked it

"Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school."
— Albert Einstein

tags: fav
1,255 people liked it

"Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler."
— Albert Einstein

tags: einstein, science, systems
508 people liked it

"The difference between genius and stupidity is; genius has its limits."
— Albert Einstein

tags: humor
2,152 people liked it

"When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity."
— Albert Einstein

tags: humor
1,661 people liked it

"If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales."
— Albert Einstein

2,521 people liked it

"Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value."
— Albert Einstein

456 people liked it

"The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking."
— Albert Einstein

tags: change, deep-thoughts, thinking, world
695 people liked it

"if a cluttered desk is that of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk?"
— Albert Einstein

237 people liked it

"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity."
— Albert Einstein

116 people liked it

"Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth."
— Albert Einstein

156 people liked it

"If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself."
— Albert Einstein

1,888 people liked it

"It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: books, reading
2,686 people liked it

"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: enemies, forgiveness, strategy
6,193 people liked it

"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."
— Mark Twain

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
9,452 people liked it

"And so it goes..."
— Kurt Vonnegut

374 people liked it

"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be."
— Kurt Vonnegut (Mother Night)

tags: action, attitude, choice, imagination, inspiration, life, pretend
982 people liked it

"I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different."
— Kurt Vonnegut (A Man Without a Country)

358 people liked it

"Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?"
— Kurt Vonnegut

tags: censorship, freedom, writersblock, writing
113 people liked it

"If you really want to hurt your parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into the arts. I'm not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way to make life more bearable."
— Kurt Vonnegut (A Man Without a Country)

140 people liked it

"Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops."
— Kurt Vonnegut (Slaughterhouse-Five)

92 people liked it

"Perhaps, when we remember wars, we should take off our clothes and paint ourselves blue and go on all fours all day long and grunt like pigs. That would surely be more appropriate than noble oratory and shows of flags and well-oiled guns."
— Kurt Vonnegut (Cat's Cradle)

41 people liked it

"The most preposterous notion that Homo sapiens has ever dreamed up is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of all the Universes, wants the saccharine adoration of His creatures, can be swayed by their prayers, and becomes petulant if He does not receive this flattery. Yet this absurd fantasy, without a shred of evidence to bolster it, pays all the expenses of the oldest, largest, and least productive industry in all history."
— Robert A. Heinlein

44 people liked it

"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity."
— Robert A. Heinlein

tags: malice, stupidity
341 people liked it

"But Above all things truth beareth away the victory "
— Plato

tags: north, nypl, side
7 people liked it

"Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something."
— Plato

153 people liked it

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."
— Mark Twain

tags: literacy
6,123 people liked it

"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect."
— Mark Twain

tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom
6,231 people liked it

"If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything."
— Malcolm X

tags: belief, integrity
6,599 people liked it

"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: friendship, lack-of-friendship, lack-of-love, love, marriage, unhappy-marriage
4,484 people liked it

"If music be the food of love, play on,
Give me excess of it; that surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken, and so die."
— William Shakespeare (Twelfth Night)

965 people liked it

"You speak an infinite deal of nothing."
— William Shakespeare (The Merchant of Venice)

tags: insults, shakespeare
463 people liked it

"It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves."
— William Shakespeare

848 people liked it

"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."
— William Shakespeare (All's Well That Ends Well)

tags: do-wrong, love, trust, wrong
3,806 people liked it

"The first thing we do, lets kill all the lawyers."
— William Shakespeare

116 people liked it

"Presume not that I am the thing I was."
— William Shakespeare

121 people liked it

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
— Aristotle (Metaphysics)

tags: wisdom
882 people liked it

"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: books
817 people liked it

"Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. 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?"
— Epicurus

32 people liked it

"Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come,we are not."
— Epicurus

tags: death
34 people liked it

"Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous."
— David Hume (A Treatise of Human Nature)

tags: philosophy
39 people liked it