PH > PH's Quotes

“The unfed mind devours itself.”
― Gore Vidal

“Men who fear demons see demons everywhere.”
― Brom, The Child Thief

“A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.”
― Albert Einstein

“Education is a system of imposed ignorance.”
― Noam Chomsky, Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media

“I hope to arrive to my death, late, in love, and a little drunk.”
― Atticus

“I love mankind ... it's people I can't stand!!”
― Charles M. Schulz

“The paradise of the rich is made out of the hell of the poor.”
― Victor Hugo, The Man Who Laughs

“If the truth shall kill them, let them die.”
― Immanuel Kant

“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.”
― Voltaire

“Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.”
― Samuel Beckett

“In fact, life itself is a contradiction if only because birth is the direct cause, in every single case, of death”
― Gore Vidal, Creation

“To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.”
― Elie Wiesel, Night

“‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.”
― Voltaire

“Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
― Allen Saunders

“The strength of a belief has no relationship to its veracity”
― Irvin D. Yalom, The Spinoza Problem

“Violence is a disease, a disease that corrupts all who use it regardless of the cause.”
― Chris Hedges

“If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshiped anything but himself.”
― Richard Francis Burton, The Book of a Thousand Nights and One Night: 17 Volumes, Complete

“Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.”
― William Blake

“I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do.”
― James Baldwin

“What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
― Upton Sinclair, I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked

“We’ve bought into the idea that education is about training and “success”, defined monetarily, rather than learning to think critically and to challenge. We should not forget that the true purpose of education is to make minds, not careers. A culture that does not grasp the vital interplay between morality and power, which mistakes management techniques for wisdom, which fails to understand that the measure of a civilization is its compassion, not its speed or ability to consume, condemns itself to death.”
― Chris Hedges, Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle

“Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.”
― Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essays

“No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.”
― Viktor Emil Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“Only those who decline to scramble up the career ladder are interesting as human beings. Nothing is more boring than a man with a career.”
― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956

“Praying is talking to God. Meditating is listening.”
― Christopher Moore, Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal

“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
― Albert Einstein

“To believe in a god is in one way to express a willingness to believe in anything. Whereas to reject the belief is by no means to profess belief in nothing.”
― Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

“Listen. To live is to be marked. To live is to change, to acquire the words of a story, and that is the only celebration we mortals really know. In perfect stillness, frankly, I've only found sorrow.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible