Raymond Khoury > Quotes

“...you can't let something that'll probably never happen ruin your life. You're only helping to make it a self-fulfilling prophecy”
― Raymond Khoury, The Last Templar

“...maybe we don't need a heavenly bribe or the fear of hell and damnation to make us behave decently. Maybe it would be healthier if people started believing in themselves instead.”
― Raymond Khoury, The Last Templar

“Greed and selfishness do seem to be central motivators of mankind.”
― Raymond Khoury, The Sanctuary

“They don’t understand that religion and science are there to serve different purposes. We need science to understand how everything on this planet and beyond works – us, nature, everything we see around us. That’s fact – no one with a working brain can question that. But we also need religion. Not for ridiculous counter-theories about things that science can prove. We need it for something else, to fill a different kind of need. The need for meaning. It’s a basic need we have, as humans. And it’s a need that’s beyond the realm of science. Your scientists don’t understand that it’s a need they can’t fulfill no matter how many Hadron colliders and Hubble telescopes they build- and your preachers don’[t understand that their job is to help you discover a personal, inner sense of meaning and not behave like a bunch of zealots intent on converting the rest of the planet to their rigid, literalist view of how everyone should live their lives.”
― Raymond Khoury, The Sign

“Faith is easy when you're standing in front of a miracle. The real test of faith is when there aren't any signs."
~Reilly, The Last Templar pg. 244”
― Raymond Khoury

“We're still dancing to tunes created by men who thought that a thunderstorm was a sig of God's anger.”
― Raymond Khoury, The Last Templar

“It’s amazing, isn’t it? Here we are, two thousand years later, with everything we’ve accomplished, everything we know, and yet this little talisman still rules the way billions of people live…and die.”
― Raymond Khoury, The Last Templar

“religion has always been the fuel that keeps the furnaces of intolerance and hatred burning.”
― Raymond Khoury, The Last Templar

“most expeditions lacked something Vance had at his disposal: the astrolabe,”
― Raymond Khoury, The Last Templar

“The Bible tells us the messiah will only return AFTER we've had the final battle between God's children and the army of the antichrist out there in Israel. It's only after that happens that we can be saved by the Rapture . . . we're still waiting for the Israelis to bomb the crap out of Iran and kick-start the whole thing.”
― Raymond Khoury, The Sign

“Cô không biết chính xác nó ở đâu và cách duy nhất để tìm ra nó là cô phải ở đó”
― Raymond Khoury

“Làm cái ghề như tôi thì khó có vợ lắm"
"Chà, hẳn rồi, nếu cái nghề đó cho phép anh nhảy lên máy bay với các cô gái chỉ mới quen biết. Tôi cũng hẳn chẳng muốn chồng mình làm điều đó hằng ngày”
― Raymond Khoury, The Last Templar

“Các anh đúng thật là những kẻ du hành đầy phong cách”
― Raymond Khoury

“They bragged about democracy and demonized countries that didn’t have it, but they didn’t really believe in democracy. They believed in hypocrisy. Their moral compass had spun out of control, from the very top down.”
― Raymond Khoury, Empire of Lies

“Anh không thể để một chuyện có thể không bao giờ xảy ra hủy hoại cuộc đời anh”
― Raymond Khoury

“Ai trong chúng ta thực sự biết điều gì sẽ xảy ra với mình? Anh chỉ cần sống cuộc sống của mình và hi vọng vào những điều tốt đẹp nhất”
― Raymond Khoury, The Last Templar

“Always seeking to open channels to new dimensions of consciousness and reach new heights of enlightenment, he spent a lot of time and money endearing himself to and worming his way into the trust of secretive tribal healers and shamans. Under their guidance, he experimented with all kinds of psychoactive substances and entheogens—mostly plant-derived concoctions that played a pivotal role in the religious practices of the tribal cultures he was exploring. He started with more easily accessible, local mind-altering substances like psilocybin mushrooms and Salvia divinorum, under the guidance of Mazatec shamans in the isolated cloud forests of the Sierra Mazateca, then he moved on to more obscure, and more intense, hallucinogens like ayahuasca, the vine of the soul; iboga, the sacred visionary root; borrachero; and others that few outsiders had ever been offered. He”
― Raymond Khoury, The Devil's Elixir

“Nếu tất cả là sự dối trá vĩ đại. Tôi mong là cái trò lừa dối đó cũng đã làm tất cả các người sáng mắt ra”
― Raymond Khoury

“Bế quan tỏa cảng với thế giới còn lại”
― Raymond Khoury, The Last Templar

“Thôi thì mặc kệ, cứ để xem cô ta có thông minh như cô ta nghĩ không”
― Raymond Khoury

“A soldier's job is to put his life on the line for his country.”
― Raymond Khoury, The Sign

“all pros have "drive. Ambition. And the cold, rational ability to compartmentalize tragedies...and carry on.”
― Raymond Khoury, The Sign

“The only reason - the only need - to believe in God is to try and explain where this all came from....Where we came from. Where we're headed. But it doesn't work. If there was a creator, a designed who created all this, well then there had to be a creator to create that creator, right? And one to create him. And so on.”
― Raymond Khoury, The Sign

“Yelling "God is on our side" is "very effective at rallying the masses. And at winning elections....”
― Raymond Khoury, The Sign

“Ils [les Templiers] sont un peu à l'archéologie ce que le porno est au cinéma.”
― Raymond Khoury, The Last Templar

“God doesn't care about what you eat or what you drink. He doesn't care about how often you pray to him or what words you use or where you go to do that....He only cares about how you behave towards one another.”
― Raymond Khoury, The Sign

“History's shown us time and again, that mixing religion and politics only brings destruction.”
― Raymond Khoury, The Sign

“framing' - the cunning technique of dumbing down complex, controversial issues and policies by using powerful, evocative, emotive catchphrases and images in order to prejudice and undermine any potential challenge to those polices.”
― Raymond Khoury, The Sign

“There are two billion Christians out there, Sean, and a lot of them think of the Bible as God’s words. His actual words. They think the twenty-seven texts that make up the New Testament were handed down to us by God himself, to help us lead better lives and achieve eternal salvation. They don’t realize that nothing could be farther from the truth and that what we call the Bible was actually”
― Raymond Khoury, The Templar Salvation

“What people don't understand they just push away to the far corners of their minds and eventually it fades away and gets forgotten. 'Cause it's safer that way.”
― Raymond Khoury, The Sign