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Just as there is no such thing as Christian physics or Muslim Algebra, we will see tht there is no such thing as Christian or Muslim morality.
 
A child shows his toy, a man hides his.
 
If you have no problem, you've got a problem.
 
Most sociopolitical hierarchies lack a logical or biological basis – they are nothing but the perpetuation of chance events supported by myths.
 
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.
 
Through violence, you may ‘solve’ one problem, but you sow the seeds for another.
 
There is a quasi-scientific fable that if you can get a frog to sit quietly in a saucepan of cold water, and if you then raise the temperature of the water very slowly and smoothly so that there is no moment marked to be the moment at which the frog should jump, he will never jump. He will get boiled. Is the human species changing its own environment with slowly increasing pollution and rotting its mind with slowly deteriorating religion and education in such a saucepan?
 
We do not know enough about how the present will lead into the future.
 
My favorite animal is steak.
 
If someone has a gun and is trying to kill you, it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun.
 
I am chained to the earth to pay for the freedom of my eyes.
 
You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do.
 
To ask the 'right' question is far more important than to receive the answer. The solution of a problem lies in the understanding of the problem; the answer is not outside the problem, it is in the problem.
 
If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted should betray his trust.
 
It is a common observation that a science first begins to be exact when it is quantitatively treated. What are called the exact sciences are no others than the mathematical ones.
 
The only possible way of accounting for the laws of nature and for uniformity in general is to suppose them results of evolution. This supposes them not to be absolute, not to be obeyed precisely.
 
Whatever we may say will not be the objective level, which remains fundamentally un-speakable. Thus, we can sit on the object called 'a chair', but we cannot sit on the noise we made or the name we applied to that object.
 
Don't find fault, find a remedy.
 
The moral flabbiness born of the exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess SUCCESS. That - with the squalid cash interpretation put on the word 'success' - is our national disease.
 
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
 
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