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“If you can’t discover what’s keeping you in, the will to get out soon becomes confused and ineffectual - "Ishmael”
― Daniel Quinn, Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit

“Arts and disciplines of that kind are fundamentally selfish; they’re all designed to benefit the pupil—not the world - "Ishmael”
― Daniel Quinn, Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit

“You’re captives of a civilizational system that more or less compels you to go on destroying the world in order to live.”
― Daniel Quinn, Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit

“To overlook extra possibilities is the fallacy of false dichotomy.”
― Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, God?: A Debate between a Christian and an Atheist

“God’s commands are arbitrary if He has no reason to command one act rather than another; but, if He does have reasons for His commands, then His reasons rather than His commands are what
make acts immoral.”
― Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, God?: A Debate between a Christian and an Atheist

“Religious beliefs are sometimes based not on testimony by others but on religious experiences of the believer.”
― Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, God?: A Debate between a Christian and an Atheist

“Religious experiences also occur only when emotions run high and only to those who were predisposed to believe.”
― Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, God?: A Debate between a Christian and an Atheist

“Take a pinch of belief in God, add a dash of desire to experience God, stir in emotion to taste, and you have a recipe for religious experience.”
― Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, God?: A Debate between a Christian and an Atheist

“It’s the combination of improbability with an independently given pattern that discredits chance.”
― William Lane Craig, God?: A Debate between a Christian and an Atheist

“There are various virtues of what counts as a best explanation, and I imagine familiarity is one of them.”
― William Lane Craig, God?: A Debate between a Christian and an Atheist

“Women believe that men are, in a sense, defective versions of women, Men believe that women are defective versions of men. Both genders are trapped in a
delusion that their personal viewpoints are universal. That viewpoint—that each gender is a defective version of the
other—is the root of all misunderstandings.”
― Scott Adams, God's Debris: A Thought Experiment

“Women define themselves by their relationships and men define themselves by whom they are helping. Women believe value is created by sacrifice. If you are willing to give up your favorite activities to be with her, she will trust you. If being with her is too easy for you, she will not trust you.”
― Scott Adams, God's Debris: A Thought Experiment

“Men believe value is created by accomplishment, and they have objectives for the women in their lives. If a
woman meets the objectives, he assumes she loves him. If she fails to meet the objectives, he will assume she does not
love him. The man assumes that if the woman loved him she would have tried harder and he always believes his objectives for her are reasonable.”
― Scott Adams, God's Debris: A Thought Experiment

“A woman needs to be told that you would sacrifice anything for her. A man needs to be told he is being useful. When the man or woman strays from that formula, the other loses trust. When trust is lost, communication falls apart.”
― Scott Adams, God's Debris: A Thought Experiment

“The ability to work hard and make sacrifices comes naturally to those who know exactly what they want.”
― Scott Adams, God's Debris: A Thought Experiment

“Simple things are almost always the hardest to explain, Julie. Showing someone how to tie a shoelace is easy. Explaining it is almost impossible.”
― Daniel Quinn, My Ishmael

“What's normal is for things to work. What's not normal is for things to fail.”
― Daniel Quinn, My Ishmael

“No invention ever comes into being fully developed in a single step, from nothing.
Ten thousand inventions had to be in place before Edison could invent the electric light-bulb.”
― Daniel Quinn, My Ishmael

“Thinkers aren't limited by what they know, because they can always increase what they know. Rather they're limited by what puzzles them, because there's no way to become curious about something that doesn't puzzle you. If a thing falls outside the range of people's curiosity, then they simply cannot
make inquiries about it. It constitutes a blind spot — a spot of blindness that you can't even know is there until someone draws your attention to it.”
― Daniel Quinn, My Ishmael

“The community of life that we see here at any given time isn't just a random collection. It's a collection of successes. It's the remainder that is left over when the failures have disappeared.”
― Daniel Quinn, My Ishmael

“The rules that govern competition between species are (and must be) very different from the rules that govern competition within species.”
― Daniel Quinn, My Ishmael

“You wouldn't know from experience that small children are the most powerful learning engines in the known universe.”
― Daniel Quinn, My Ishmael

“How easy it is first to leap to a false conclusion about someone and then to view everything he does in light of that conclusion.”
― Daniel Quinn, My Ishmael

“There is no sorrow except in captivity.”
― Osho

“Knowledge always liberates.”
― Osho

“Crowds create illusions.”
― Osho

“All our attachments are outward oriented and hence this illusion.”
― Osho

“One who ”knows,” knows there is no need to discourse; knowing is enough”
― Osho

“There is no one lonelier than God!”
― Osho

“There is only a difference of proportion of madness between an average man and a mad man; the quality of madness is the same.”
― Osho