“I do not believe that things happen accidentally; I believe you earn them.”— Madeleine Albright, goodreads.com
“At the core of all well-founded belief lies belief that is unfounded.”— Ludwig Wittgenstein, amazon.com
“To believe in a God means to understand the question about the meaning of life. To believe in a God means to see that the facts of the world are not the end of the matter. To believe in God means to see that life has a meaning.”— Ludwig Wittgenstein, amazon.com
“Monotheistic religions alone furnish the spectacle of religious wars, religious persecutions, heretical tribunals, that breaking of idols and destruction of images of the gods, that razing of Indian temples and Egyptian colossi, which had looked on the sun 3,000 years: just because a jealous god had…”— Arthur Schopenhauer, amazon.com
“Philosophy … is a science, and as such has no articles of faith; accordingly, in it nothing can be assumed as existing except what is either positively given empirically, or demonstrated through indubitable conclusions.”— Arthur Schopenhauer, amazon.com
“All the tales of miracles, with which the Old and New Testament are filled, are fit only for impostors to preach and fools to believe.”— Thomas Paine, amazon.com
“It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.”— Thomas Paine, amazon.com
“It is from the Bible that man has learned cruelty, rapine, and murder; for the belief of a cruel God makes a cruel man.”— Thomas Paine, amazon.com
“Lying on the roof counting the stars that fill the sky, I wonder if someone in the heavens looking back down on me. I'll never know.”— Dave Matthews, youtube.com
“So good to see you once again. I thought that you were hiding. And you thought that I had run away. Chasing the tail of dogma. I opened my eye and there we were. So good to see you once again I thought that you were hiding from me. And you thought that I had run away. Chasing a trail of smoke and re…”— Maynard James Keenan, youtube.com
“I never knew before, what such a love as you have made me feel, was; I did not believe in it; my Fancy was afraid of it, lest it should burn me up. But if you will fully love me, though there may be some fire, 'twill not be more than we can bear when moistened and bedewed with pleasures.”— John Keats, amazon.com
“The myth of heaven indicates peace and night. The myth of heaven indicates the soul”— Walt Whitman, amazon.com
“You fell in love with someone because of the tilt of his smile, or because he could make you laugh, or in this case, because he made you believe you were the only one who could save him.”— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com
“Pure love for another person, and what people call romantic love, are two different things. Pure love doesn’t manipulate the relationship to one’s advantage, but romantic love is different. Romantic love contains other elements—the desire to be loved by the other person, for instance. If purely lovi…”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“I think I love him, but I also think that you can love people who aren’t good for you.”— Augusten Burroughs, amazon.com