“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.”
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“In addition to the interpretive frameworks of the mythological (classical-Greek), the theological (Medieval-Christian), and the existential (modern-European), would it be possible to shift our framework to something we can only call cosmological? Could such a cosmological view be understood not simply as the view from inter-stellar space, but as the view of the world-without-us, the Planetary view?”
― In the Dust of This Planet: Horror of Philosophy
― In the Dust of This Planet: Horror of Philosophy
“Artists use lies to tell the truth. Yes, I created a lie. But because you believed it, you found something true about yourself.”
― V for Vendetta
― V for Vendetta
“I have never voted in my life... I have always known and understood that the idiots are in a majority so it's certain they will win.”
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“In fact, "atheism" is a term that should not even exist. No one ever needs to identify himself as a "non-astrologer" or a "non-alchemist." We do not have words for people who doubt that Elvis is still alive or that aliens have traversed the galaxy only to molest ranchers and their cattle. Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make in the presence of unjustified religious beliefs.”
― Letter to a Christian Nation
― Letter to a Christian Nation
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