Peter

“As you say of yourself, I too am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greece and Rome have left us.

[Letter to William Short, 31 October 1819]”
― Thomas Jefferson, Letters of Thomas Jefferson

“If the universe has any purpose more important than topping a woman you love and making a baby with her hearty help, I've never heard of it.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love

“Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love

“Of all the strange “crimes” that human beings have legislated out of nothing, “blasphemy” is the most amazing—with “obscenity” and “indecent exposure” fighting it out for second and third place.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love