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Quotes Religious and Non Religious

A former member
Posted Feb 2, 2010 6:52 PM
Post #: 6
Any good quotes to share religious or not religious?
I'll start with my favorite quote:

I never learned anything from anyone that agreed with me.
--Unknown

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms.
-- Albert Einstein

The great trouble is that the preachers get the children from six to seven years of age and then it is almost impossible to do anything with them.
-- Thomas Edison



Kim
Posted Feb 2, 2010 6:57 PM
Kimmie78
San Antonio, TX
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"Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Give him a religion, and he'll starve to death while praying for a fish."
-Timothy Jones

"Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?"
-Douglas Adams

"Morality is doing what's right no matter what you're told. Religion is doing what you're told, no matter what's right."
-?

"The unknown is what it is. And to be frightened of it is what sends everybody scurrying around chasing dreams, illusions, wars, peace, love, hate, all that… Accept that it’s unknown, and it’s plain sailing."
- John Lennon

... and my favorite:

"The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done."
- George Carlin
Avery
Posted Feb 2, 2010 7:13 PM
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San Antonio, TX
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“If we are going to teach creation science as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction.” - Judith Hayes

"He (the Rev. Mr. Whitefield) used, indeed, sometimes to pray for my conversion, but never had the satisfaction of believing that his prayers were heard." -Benjamin Franklin

"I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires." -Susan B. Anthony

"I’m completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death." -George Carlin

"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ." -Gandhi
Dave
Posted Feb 2, 2010 10:34 PM
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"I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever in religion, in philosophy, in politics, or in anything else where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent."

-Thomas Jefferson, letter to Francis Hopkinson, March 13, 1789

"Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise." - "During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What have been its fruits? More or less in all places, pride and indolence in the Clergy, ignorance and servility in the laity, in both, superstition, bigotry and persecution."

- James Madison, in a letter to William Bradford, April 1,1774
Nice Jack
Posted Feb 3, 2010 9:59 AM
Nice_Jack
San Antonio, TX
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Great posts. Thanks! Here's a few of my old favorites...

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.
— George Santayana

Life may have no meaning. Or even worse, it may have a meaning of which I disapprove.
— Ashleigh Brilliant

When we remember that we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
— Mark Twain

Faith is when you believe in something out of fear that the opposite might be true.
— Jack Palmer

Liars sit in chairs. Honest folk just sort of hunker down.
— Randall Flagg

Reality is just a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.
— Robin Williams

If I have failed to see farther than others, it was because giants were standing on my shoulders.
— Unknown

Why are aliens always portrayed as evil in movies? How do we know that there isn't an alien out there just waiting to share the recipe for 'The Universe's Best Waffle Mix?'
— Kevin Peck

Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders while computer scientists stand on each other's toes.
— R. W. Hamming

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.

What can I get for a rib?
— Adam
Nice Jack
Posted Feb 3, 2010 10:05 AM
Nice_Jack
San Antonio, TX
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I don't want to overstep, but here's my take on the art and science paradox...

Science is the art of figuring out the rules and making sense of the world.
Art is the science of questioning those rules and making nonsense of the world.
Knowledge is a product of science.
Wisdom is a product of art.

Maybe I should try to squeeze that into a haiku. ;)
Nice Jack
Posted Feb 3, 2010 10:09 AM
Nice_Jack
San Antonio, TX
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Sorry, just came across another good one...

"It is the weak and confused who worship the pseudo-simplicities of brutal directness."
-- Marshall McLuhan
Erik Brower
Posted Feb 3, 2010 8:49 PM
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San Antonio, TX
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If god did not exist , it would be neccesary to invent him
--Voltaire

The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.
--Hunter Thompson

In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity
--Hunter Thompson

Erik Brower
Posted Feb 3, 2010 9:28 PM
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All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing
--Edmund Burke (?)

How would Horatio Alger handle this situation?
--Hunter Thompson
Miguel
Posted Feb 3, 2010 9:42 PM
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"I believe that I am acting in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator: by defending myself against the Jew, I am fighting for the work of the Lord."

-Adolf Hitler
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