“language . . . is the parent, and not the child, of thought.”

― Oscar Wilde, Intentions

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“If this had not been the case with Abraham, then perhaps he might have loved God but not believed; for he who loves God without faith reflects upon himself, he who loves God believingly reflects upon God.”

― Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling

“you find life such a problem because you think there are the good people and the bad people . . . You're wrong, of course. There are, always and only, the bad people, but some of them are on opposite sides.”

― Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!

“Modern science has been a voyage into the unknown, with a lesson in humility waiting at every stop. Many passengers would rather have stayed home.”

― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot

“No conclusions can be more agreeable to scepticism than such as make discoveries concerning the weakness and narrow limits of human reason and capacity.”

― David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

“Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery. People are working every minute. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.”

― Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

“When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shining because of distant nuclear fusion.”

― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

“events only become experiences through the interest that we take in them: if they do not interest us, we are making nothing of them.”

― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

“I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. Mankind will surely not deny to Harold Skimpole what it concedes to the butterflies!”

― Charles Dickens, Bleak House

“Don't touch me! Don't question me! Don't speak to me! Stay with me!”

― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

“Eloquence, when at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection; but addressing itself entirely to the fancy or the affections, captivates the willing hearers, and subdues their understanding.”

― David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

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