fun quotes from influential philosophers, authors and people
"Hang on to your youthful enthusiasm, you will be able to use them better when you are older."
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"Fundamentalism is the philosophy of the powerless, the conquered, the displaced and the dispossessed. Its spawning ground is the wreckage of political and military defeat, as Hebrew fundamentalism arose during the Babylonian captivity, as white Christian fundamentalism appeared in the American South during Reconstruction, as the notion of the Master Race evolved in Germany following World War I."
322
"In heaven, all the interesting people are missing."
374
"The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown."
399
"Emotional control isn’t a lack of emotion; it’s a necessary function of maturity."
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"Since the only proper function of a government is to protect man’s rights, it cannot claim title to his life in exchange for that protection."
871
"I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me. I think I have no senses. I believe that body, shape, extension, motion, location are functions. What is there then that can be taken as true? Perhaps only this one thing, that nothing at all is certain."
908
"The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays."
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