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“If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice¡¯s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

“One must be a little foolish if one does not want to be even more stupid.”
― Michel Montaigne

“Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”
― Bertrand Russell

“The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mold. The same reason that makes us wrangle with a neighbor creates a war betwixt princes.”
― Michel de Montaigne

“There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.”
― Bertrand Russell

“There are no truths, only moments of claryty passing for answers.”
― Montaigne

“Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.”
― Bertrand Russell

“When I express my opinions it is so as to reveal the measure of my sight not the measure of the thing.”
― Michel de Montaigne

“War does not determine who is right ¡ª only who is left.”
― Anonymous

“Il n'est pas de chagrin qu'un livre ne puisse consoler.”
― Michel de Montaigne

“That is the idea -- that we should all be wicked if we did not hold to the Christian religion. It seems to me that the people who have held to it have been for the most part extremely wicked. You find this curious fact, that the more intense has been the religion of any period and the more profound has been the dogmatic belief, the greater has been the cruelty and the worse has been the state of affairs. In the so-called ages of faith, when men really did believe the Christian religion in all its completeness, there was the Inquisition, with all its tortures; there were millions of unfortunate women burned as witches; and there was every kind of cruelty practiced upon all sorts of people in the name of religion.

You find as you look around the world that every single bit of progress in humane feeling, every improvement in the criminal law, every step toward the diminution of war, every step toward better treatment of the colored races, or every mitigation of slavery, every moral progress that there has been in the world, has been consistently opposed by the organized churches of the world. I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.

You may think that I am going too far when I say that that is still so. I do not think that I am. Take one fact. You will bear with me if I mention it. It is not a pleasant fact, but the churches compel one to mention facts that are not pleasant. Supposing that in this world that we live in today an inexperienced girl is married to a syphilitic man; in that case the Catholic Church says, 'This is an indissoluble sacrament. You must endure celibacy or stay together. And if you stay together, you must not use birth control to prevent the birth of syphilitic children.' Nobody whose natural sympathies have not been warped by dogma, or whose moral nature was not absolutely dead to all sense of suffering, could maintain that it is right and proper that that state of things should continue.

That is only an example. There are a great many ways in which, at the present moment, the church, by its insistence upon what it chooses to call morality, inflicts upon all sorts of people undeserved and unnecessary suffering. And of course, as we know, it is in its major part an opponent still of progress and improvement in all the ways that diminish suffering in the world, because it has chosen to label as morality a certain narrow set of rules of conduct which have nothing to do with human happiness; and when you say that this or that ought to be done because it would make for human happiness, they think that has nothing to do with the matter at all. 'What has human happiness to do with morals? The object of morals is not to make people happy.”
― Bertrand Russell, Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects

“Time is a game played beautifully by children.”
― Heraclitus, Fragments

“The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.”
― Bertrand Russell

“The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think and what you do is who you become.”
― Heraclitus

“One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one¡¯s work is terribly important.”
― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
― Socrates

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(Mortals are immortals and immortals are mortals, the one living the others' death and dying the others' life.)”
― Heraclitus

“There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened.”
― Michel de Montaigne

“It ever was, and is, and shall be, ever-living fire, in measures being kindled and in measures going out.”
― Heraclitus, Fragments

“I listen with attention to the judgment of all men;
but so far as I can remember,
I have followed none but my own.”
― Michel de Montaigne

“Qu'une goutee de vin tombe dans un verre d'eau; quelle que soit la loi du movement interne du liquide, nous verrons bient?t se colorer d'une teinte rose uniforme et ¨¤ partir de ce moment on aura beau agiter le vase, le vin et l'eau ne parta?tront plus pouvoir se s¨¦parer. Tout cela, Maxwell et Boltzmann l'ont expliqu¨¦, mais celui qui l'a vu plus nettement, dans un livre trop peu lu parce qu'il est difficile ¨¤ lire, c'est Gibbs dans ses principes de la M¨¦canique Statistique.

Let a drop of wine fall into a glass of water; whatever be the law that governs the internal movement of the liquid, we will soon see it tint itself uniformly pink and from that moment on, however we may agitate the vessel, it appears that the wine and water can separate no more. All this, Maxwell and Boltzmann have explained, but the one who saw it in the cleanest way, in a book that is too little read because it is difficult to read, is Gibbs, in his Principles of Statistical Mechanics.”
― Henri Poincare?, The Value of Science: Essential Writings of Henri Poincare

“It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.”
― Bertrand Russell

“The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon Turns Ashes--or it prospers; and anon, Like Snow upon the Desert's dusty Face Lighting a little Hour or two--is gone.”
― Omar Khayy¨¢m, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

“There is no desire more natural than the desire of knowledge. (Il n'est desir plus naturel que le desir de connaissance)”
― Michel de Montaigne, Essays

“The unlike is joined together, and from differences results the most beautiful harmony.”
― Heraclitus

“The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts.”
― Heraclitus

“No wind favors he who has no destined port.”
― Michel de Montaigne , The Complete Essays

“La nature et les circonstances semblaient avoir fait cette femme pour cet homme, et les avoir pouss¨¦s l'un vers l'autre.”
― ?mile Zola, Th¨¦r¨¨se Raquin

“Nothing endures but change.”
― Heraclitus

“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.”
― Heraclitus