Alejandro Castaneda > Alejandro's Quotes

“Somos sombras de la historia, leyendas, sueños de vida rodeados de muerte,”
― Santiago Posteguillo, La legión perdida: El sueño de Trajano

“I think the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“Saber a qué temes es lo que te hace capaz de superarlo. Negar que sientes miedo de algo o alguien sólo te hace aún más vulnerable.”
― Santiago Posteguillo, La legión perdida: El sueño de Trajano

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

“There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality”
― Richard Dawkins

“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.”
― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

“I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.”
― Richard Dawkins

“All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals.”
― Peter Singer

“Religion poisons everything.”
― Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

“Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?”
― Epicurus

“One should not go into churches if one wishes to breathe pure air.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil