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“Nothing can make it moral to destroy the best. One can't be punished for beeing good. One can't be penalized for ability. If that is right, then we'd better start slaughtering one another, because there isn't any right at all in the world.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“I exist, I think, I feel pain. Is all this as certain as a geometric truth? Yes. Why? It is because these truths are proved by the same principle that a thing cannot be and not be at the same thime. I cannot at the same time exist and not exist, feel and not feel. A triangle cannot at the same time have and not have 180 degrees, which is the sum of two right angles.”
― Voltaire

“I should have been put down at birth.”
― Richard Dawkins, An Appetite for Wonder: The Making of a Scientist

“Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.”
― J. D. Salinger

“There are so many persons who know what wonders are opened to them in the stories and visions of their youth; for when as children we listen and dream, we think but half-formed thoughts, and when as men we try to remember, we are dulled and proasic with the poison of life.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, Celephaïs

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Religious patients seemed to differ little from those without a religion.”
― Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, On Death and Dying: What the Dying Have to Teach Doctors, Nurses, Clergy and Their Own Families

“Choosing beliefs freely is not what rational minds do.”
― Sam Harris, The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values

“There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.”
― Thomas Paine, Common Sense

“For the first time, also, I felt what the duties of a creator toward his creature were, and that i ought to render him happy before I complained of his wickedness.”
― Mary Shelley

“All scriptures contain contradictions and the Qur'an is no exception.”
― Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Heretic: Why Islam Needs a Reformation Now

“Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world, after all. He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it -- namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.”
― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

“The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception casts us onto some of the steepest ethical terrain we ever cross.”
― Sam Harris, Lying

“When you have existed to the brink of middle age in bitter loneliness, among people your true opinion on every subject on earth is blasfemy, the need to talk is the greatest of all needs.”
― George Orwell, Burmese Days

“By what procedures do men establish the rule-governed links they do between language, on the one hand, and the real world, on the other?”
― Allan Janik, Wittgenstein's Vienna

“He's the same in the court-room as he is on the public streets.”
― Harper Lee, York Notes: To Kill a Mockingbird

“Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.”
― Harper Lee, Go Set a Watchman

“Another form on sagacity and self-defence consists in reacting as seldom as possible and withdrawing from situations and relationships in which one would be condemned as it were to suspend ones 'freedom', ones initiative, and become a mere reagent.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Ecce Homo

“Facts were never the enemy.”
― Lee Burvine, The Kafir Project

“The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow-creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life.”
― Albert Einstein, The World As I See It

“To every place at once, and, nowhere fixt,
The mind and sight distractedly commixt.”
― William Shakespeare, A Lover's Complaint

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

“To claim absolute knowledge is to become monstrous. Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.”
― Frank Herbert, Children Of Dune

“Man will desire oblivion rather than not desire at all.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals

“Fat fate's formal handshake () brought me out of my torpor; and I wept. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury - I wept.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“I'm not obstinate, I'm highly strung: I don't know how to let myself go. I must always think of what is happening to me - it's a form of self-protection.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, The Age of Reason