Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of crackpot than the stigma of conformity.-Thomas J. Watson, Sr., Founder of International Business Machines (IBM)(1874-1956) To think incisively and to think for ones self is very difficult. We are prone to let our mental life become invaded by legions of half truths, prejudices, and propaganda. At this point, I often wonder whether or not education is fulfilling its purpose. A great majority of the so-called educated people do not think logically and scientifically. Even the press, the classroom, the platform, and the pulpit in many instances do not give us objective and unbiased truths. To save man from the morass of propaganda, in my opinion, is one of the chief aims of education. Education must enable one to sift and weigh evidence, to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from the fiction. The function of education, therefore, is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. -Martin Luther King, Jr., American civil rights leader The Purpose of Education, The Maroon Tiger, Jan./ Feb. 1947 I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think. - Socrates, Greek philosopher (469-399 BCE) One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. ( Plato ) To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin. [Cardinal Bellarmine, 1615, during the trial of Galileo] It is as useless to argue with those who have renounced the use and authority of reason as to administer medication to the dead. - Thomas Jefferson You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help? ~ Mark Twain Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. Voltaire French author, humanist, rationalist, & satirist (1694 - 1778) I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, youll understand why I dismiss yours. -- Stephen Henry Roberts [Go to] heaven for climate and hell for society. -- Mark Twain I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, youll understand why I dismiss yours. -- Stephen Henry Roberts [Go to] heaven for climate and hell for society. -- Mark Twain The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power to reason. -- Voltaire There was a time when religion ruled the world. It is known as the Dark Ages. -- Ruth Hurmence Green Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. -- Blaise Pascal Two hands working are worth more than a thousand clasped in prayer. -- Anonymous Give a man a fish and hell eat for a day. Give a man religion and hell starve to death praying for a fish. -- Anonymous Geology shows that fossils are of different ages. Paleontology shows us a fossil sequence, the list of species changing through time. Taxonomy shows biological relationships among species. Evolution is the explanation that threads it all together. Creationism is the practice of squeezing ones eyes shut and wailing Does not! -- Anonymous The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. -- Abraham Lincoln The Way to See by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason. -- Benjamin Franklin Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people. - Eleanor Roosevelt Teach the young people how to think, not what to think. – Sidney Sugarman Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind dont matter and those who matter dont ...mind. - Dr. Suess Religion is fundamentally opposed to everything I hold in veneration--courage, clear thinking, honesty, fairness, and, above all, love of the truth - H.L. Mencken The most henious and the must cruel crimes of which history has record have been committed under the cover of religion or equally noble motives. - Mohandas K Gandhi Men never commit evil so fully and joyfully as when they do it for religious convictions. ~ Blaise Pascal With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion. ~ Steven Weinberg Evil thrives when men of virtue keep mute Wise Men speak because they have something to Say, The Fools speak because they have to Say something - Plato Πείσας λάβε, μὴ βιασάμενος. --Win by persuasion, not by force. -Bias Tough Time Never last But Tough People Do-Robert Schuller You’ll hardly ever find a superachiever anywhere who isn’t motivated at least partially by a sense of insecurity.—Ted Turner There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. Albert Camus Each of us is responsible for everything and to every human being. Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence Erich Fromm “For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof; the work for which all other work is but preparation.” Rainer Maria Rilke There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness Friedrich Nietzsche “Blessed are the cracked for they shall let in the light.” Groucho Marx “Dance like nobodys watching; love like youve never been hurt. Sing like nobodys listening; live like its heaven on earth.” Mark Twain Its never too late to be who you might have been. George Elliot Whether or not you believe You Can or whether or not you believe You Cant, then youll be right. Henry Ford “Nothing whatsoever is to be clung to as I, Me, or Mine.” The Buddha “If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him.” Lin Chi, ninth-century Buddhist master “My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.” The Dalai Lama “For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.” Audrey Hepburn The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it. Karl Marx I dont believe in Belief E.M. Forster I dont believe in belief Karl R. Popper I dont believe in belief Richard Jacques Nur der nackte Mensch ist der wahre Mensch (Only the naked human is the real human) Goethe A rose is a rose is a rose is a rose Gertrude Stein Two hands working are worth more than a thousand clasped in prayer. -- Anonymous Give a man a fish and hell eat for a day. Give a man religion and hell starve to death praying for a fish. -- Anonymous Geology shows that fossils are of different ages. Paleontology shows us a fossil sequence, the list of species changing through time. Taxonomy shows biological relationships among species. Evolution is the explanation that threads it all together. Creationism is the practice of squeezing ones eyes shut and wailing Does not! -- Anonymous The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. -- Abraham Lincoln The Way to See by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason. -- Benjamin Franklin “We dont receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.” Marcel Proust
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