Alexander

“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“Many religions now come before us with ingratiating smirks and outspread hands, like an unctuous merchant in a bazaar. They offer consolation and solidarity and uplift, competing as they do in a marketplace. But we have a right to remember how barbarically they behaved when they were strong and were making an offer that people could not refuse.”
― Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

“Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.”
― Voltaire

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Mark Twain