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"Believe nothing,
No matter where you read it
Or who has said it
Unless it agrees with your own reason
and your own common sense."
-Buddha

"We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far."
"The most merciful thing in the world is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents."
-H.P. Lovecraft

"The absence of an afterlife does not concern me as much as the idea of being judged by a being with a 'profit and loss' record of morality."
"If we [humans] disappeared overnight, the world would probably be better off."
"It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living."
-Sir David Attenborough

"There is no heaven of glory bright, and no hell where sinners roast. Here and now is our day of torment! Here and now is our day of joy! Here and now is our opportunity!"
The Satanic Bible: The Book of Satan IV:2

“Thus that which is the most awful of evils, death, is nothing to us, since when we exist there is no death, and when there is death we do not exist”
“Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.”
"I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.”
-Epicurus

"There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance"
"Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live."
-Socrates

"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.”
"Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber."
“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
-Plato

"Men create God's in their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life."
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."
-Aristotle

"Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion."
"Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains."
-Democritus

"Cherish your ability to think. For even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all."
"All formal dogmatic religions are fallacious, and should not be accepted by any self-respecting persons as final."
-Hypatia - Murdered by the Christian Chuch in 415 AD, her murder contributing to the Dark Ages

"The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing."
-Albert Einstein

"In my opinion, nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs."
-Galileo Galilei

"To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today"
-Isaac Asimov

"I teach you the NeoSapien. Man is something that shall be overcome. What have you done to overcome him? All beings so far have created something beyond themselves; and do you want to be the ebb of this great flood, and even go back to the beasts rather than overcome man? What is ape to man? A laughing stock or painful embarrassment. And man shall be that to NeoSapien: a laughingstock or painful embarrassment. You have made your way from worm to man, and much in you is still worm. Once you were apes, and even now, too, man is more ape than any ape. The NeoSapien is the meaning of the earth. Let your will say: the NeoSapien shall be the meaning of the earth. Man is a rope, tied between beast and NeoSapien--a rope over an abyss. What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end"
-Friedrich Nietzsche

"We succeeded in taking that picture [from deep space], and, if you look at it, you see a dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever lived, lived out their lives. The aggregate of all our joys and sufferings, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilizations, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every hopeful child, every mother and father, every inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history of our species, lived there on a mote of dust, suspended in a sunbeam."
-Carl Sagan

"Actually, the gap between say, Plato or Nietzsche and the average human is greater than the gap between that chimpanzee and the average human."
-Louis Mackey

"Live and act within the limit of your knowledge, and keep expanding it to the limit of your life."
-John Galt

"I am Andrew Ryan and I am here to ask you a question: Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow?No, says the man in Washington; it belongs to the poor. No, says the man in the Vatican; it belongs to God. No, says the man in Moscow; it belongs to everyone.I rejected those answers. Instead, I chose something different. I chose the impossible. I chose life."
-Andrew Ryan, Bioshock

"Too many people believe that this life is just suffering, before eternal bliss. I say that this life is our bliss, before the suffering of eternity."
-Myself