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“But if science cannot answer some ultimate question, what makes anybody think that religion can?”
― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

“Science is but one form of rationalism, while religion is the most common form of superstition.”
― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion: 10th Anniversary Edition

“Science is increasingly answering questions that used to be the province of religion. Religion was an early attempt to answer the questions we all ask: why are we here, where did we come from? Long ago, the answer was almost always the same: gods made everything. The world was a scary place, so even people as tough as the Vikings believed in supernatural beings to make sense of natural phenomena like lightning, storms or eclipses. Nowadays, science provides better and more consistent answers, but people will always cling to religion, because it gives comfort, and they do not trust or understand science.”
― Stephen Hawking, Brief Answers to the Big Questions

“It is customary to portray the history of modernity as a struggle between science and religion. In theory, both science and religion are interested above all in the truth, and because each upholds a different truth, they are doomed to clash. In fact, neither science nor religion cares that much about the truth, hence they can easily compromise, coexist and even cooperate. Religion is interested above all in order. It aims to create and maintain the social structure. Science is interested above all in power. Through research, it aims to acquire the power to cure diseases, fight wars and produce food. As individuals, scientists and priests may give immense importance to the truth; but as collective institutions, science and religion prefer order and power over truth. They therefore make good bedfellows. The uncompromising quest for truth is a spiritual journey, which can seldom remain within the confines of either religious or scientific establishments.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow

“There is no future, no past. There is only the present.”
― Hector Garcia Puigcerver, Ikigai: The Japanese secret to a long and happy life

“It’s not what happens to you, but how you react that matters.”
― Hector Garcia Puigcerver, Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life / The Little Book of Hygge / Lagom: The Swedish Art of Balanced Living

“Socialism is nihilistic, in the henceforth precise sense that Nietzsche confers on the word. A nihilist is not one who believes in nothing, but one who does not believe in what exists.”
― Albert Camus, The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt

“wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

“The problem in public life is learning to overcome terror; the problem in married life is learning to overcome boredom.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

“Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

“The history of human growth and development is at the same time the history of the terrible struggle of every new idea heralding the approach of a brighter dawn. In its tenacious hold on tradition, the Old has never hesitated to make use of the foulest and cruelest means to stay the advent of the New, in whatever form or period the latter may have asserted itself. Nor need we retrace our steps into the distant past to realize the enormity of opposition, difficulties, and hardships placed in the path of every progressive idea. The rack, the thumbscrew, and the knout are still with us; so are the convict’s garb and the social wrath, all conspiring against the spirit that is serenely marching on.”
― Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays

“I am who I am and I have the need to be.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“I was too young to know how to love her.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“But the conceited man did not hear him. Conceited people never hear anything but praise.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“Grown ups never understood anything by themselves. And it is rather tedious to have to explain things to them time and again”
― Antoine de Saint Exupéry, The Little Prince

“The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting”
― Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

“I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.”
― Plato, The Republic

“The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful.”
― Plato, The Republic

“χαλεπὰ τὰ καλά

Nothing beautiful without struggle.”
― Plato, The Republic

“That's what education should be," I said, "the art of orientation. Educators should devise the simplest and most effective methods of turning minds around. It shouldn't be the art of implanting sight in the organ, but should proceed on the understanding that the organ already has the capacity, but is improperly aligned and isn't facing the right way.”
― Plato, The Republic

“Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.”
― Plato, The Republic

“Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance”
― Plato, The Republic

“He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age. But to him who is of an opposite disposition, youth and age are equally a burden.”
― Plato, The Republic

“The comprehensive mind is always dialectical.”
― Plato, The Republic

“I say that justice is nothing other than the advantage of [c] the stronger.”
― Plato, The Republic

“justice is nothing else than the interest of the stronger.”
― Plato, The Republic

“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
― Carl Sagan

“All human wisdom is contained in these two words - Wait and Hope”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo