“We atheists can argue that, with the modern revolution in attitudes toward homosexuals, we have become the only group that may not reveal itself in normal social discourse.”
– Philip W. Anderson
“One can be a true believe in anything: psychic ability, Christianity or, as Bertrand Russell put classically suggested (with irony), in the fact there is a teapot orbiting the earth.
I could believe any of those things with total conviction. But my conviction doesn’t make them true. Indeed, it is something of an insult to the very truth I might hold dear to say that something is true just because I believe it is”
– Derren Brown
“We have to fight the past to survive.”
– Pierre Boulez
“Men talk of heaven,
-there is no but here;
Men talk of hell,
-there is no hell but here;
Men of the hereafters talk, and future lives, –
O love, there is no other life – but here.”
– Omar Khayyam
“Look not above, there is no answer there;
Pray not, for no one listens to your prayer;
NEAR is as near to God as any FAR,
And HERE is just the same deceit as THERE.”
– Omar Khayyam
“Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.”
– Kurt Vonnegut