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
Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering
the fundamental question of philosophy.
- Albert Camus
If I believed in an outside force that we wanted to call God,
and I believe that there is one, I think God would appreciate what I say,
because I can't see God wanting to create a world full of idiots.
- Marilyn Manson
and I believe that there is one, I think God would appreciate what I say,
because I can't see God wanting to create a world full of idiots.
- Marilyn Manson
It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason
as well as your sense of the aesthetic.
- W. Somerset Maugham, 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
as well as your sense of the aesthetic.
- W. Somerset Maugham, 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
I don't care if it rains or freezes,
'long as I' got my plastic Jesus,
sittin' on the dashboard of my car;
It makes no difference if we hit a bump,
-he's held on by a suction cup,
sittin' on the dashboard of my car.
I can even go a hundr'd miles-an-hour,
as long as I've got that dee-vine power,
sittin' on the dashboard of my car.
- "Plastic Jesus," circa 1969, sign-on song of disk jockey Don Imis
'long as I' got my plastic Jesus,
sittin' on the dashboard of my car;
It makes no difference if we hit a bump,
-he's held on by a suction cup,
sittin' on the dashboard of my car.
I can even go a hundr'd miles-an-hour,
as long as I've got that dee-vine power,
sittin' on the dashboard of my car.
- "Plastic Jesus," circa 1969, sign-on song of disk jockey Don Imis
...But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries,
has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?
- Mark Twain
has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?
- Mark Twain
And Jesus said unto them, "And whom do you say that I am?"
They replied, "You are the eschatological manifestation of the ground of our being, the ontological foundation of the context of our very selfhood revealed."
And Jesus replied, "What?"
They replied, "You are the eschatological manifestation of the ground of our being, the ontological foundation of the context of our very selfhood revealed."
And Jesus replied, "What?"
If we do not need to worship God six days in the week,
why do we need to worship him on the seventh?
- Lemuel K. Washburn
why do we need to worship him on the seventh?
- Lemuel K. Washburn
I have issues with anyone who treats faith as a burden instead of a blessing.
You people don't celebrate your faith; you mourn it.
- Serendipity (Dogma)
You people don't celebrate your faith; you mourn it.
- Serendipity (Dogma)
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Where facts are few, experts are many.
- Donald R. Gannon
- Donald R. Gannon
Calvin: Do you believe in the devil? You know, a supreme evil being dedicated to the temptation, corruption, and destruction of man?
Hobbes: I'm not sure that man needs the help.
Hobbes: I'm not sure that man needs the help.
Do you think people know what they want?
- God (Bruce Almighty)
- God (Bruce Almighty)
That only which we have within, can we see without.
If we meet no gods, it is because we harbor none.
If there is a grandeur in you, you will find grandeur in porters and sweeps.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If we meet no gods, it is because we harbor none.
If there is a grandeur in you, you will find grandeur in porters and sweeps.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every man is a God, if he chooses to recognize this fact.
- Anton LaVey
- Anton LaVey
You sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire; you build egos the size of cathedrals; fiber-optically connect the world to every eager impulse; grease even the dullest dreams with these dollar-green, gold-plated fantasies, until every human becomes an aspiring emperor, becomes his own God... and where can you go from there?
- John Milton aka Satan (The Devil's Advocate)
- John Milton aka Satan (The Devil's Advocate)
I had an experience. I can't prove and can't explain. But everything that I know as a human being tells me that it was real. I was given something wonderful, that changed me forever. A vision of the universe, that tells us undeniably, that we belong to something that is greater than ourselves, and that none of us is alone.
- Ellie Arroway (Contact)
- Ellie Arroway (Contact)
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something;
in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
- Bertrand Russell
in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
- Bertrand Russell
In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal
that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
- Edward P. Tryon
that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
- Edward P. Tryon
Before God we are all equally wise—and equally foolish.
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
To be a saint is the exception; to be upright is the rule. Err, falter, sin, but be upright. To commit the least possible sin is the law for man. Sin is a gravitation.
- Victor Hugo, 'Les Miserables'
- Victor Hugo, 'Les Miserables'
A hypocrite is a person who—but who isn't?
- Don Marquis
- Don Marquis
And God said, "Jeeze, this is dull." And it *was* dull.
- Genesis 0:0
- Genesis 0:0
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