Consciousness is a being, the nature of which is to be conscious of the
nothingness of its being.

Jean-Paul Sartre

No way of thinking or doing however ancient , can be trusted without proof

Henry David Thoreau

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, even to murder, for the truth.

Alfred Adler

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

George Santayana

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Denis Diderot

The people who earn the most money are never those who advance the frontiers of knowledge or extend the reach of the sympathetic imagination.  With surprisingly few exceptions the highest fees are paid to the people who deal in the commodity of money.

Lewis Lapham

A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and ( Read more... )

When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics ( Read more... )

Cunning and deceit will every time serve a man better than force.

Niccolo Machiavelli

A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity.

Sigmund Freud

Man is by his constitution a religious animal; atheism is against not only our reason, but our instincts.

Edmund Burke

i really like this one by Albert Einstein ( Read more... )

'He's a slave.' But he may have the spirit of a free man. 'He's a slave.' But is that really to count against him? Show me a man who isn't a slave; one is a slave to sex, another to money, another to ambition; all are slaves to hope or fear ( Read more... )

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

Karl Marx