"If you do not stand firm in faith, you shall not stand at all."--Prayer
"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."-Albert Einstein
"It seems absurd to expect that nature and reality should conform neatly to the departments of a modern state university."-Jay Richards
"Scientia is seeing what necessarily follows from what one see to be necessarily true."-Aristotle
"It is not the literal past, the "facts" of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language."-Brian Friel, Irish playwright, author
"If you can't take a little bloody nose, maybe you ought to go back home and crawl under your bed. It's not safe out here. It's wondrous, with treasures to satiate desires, both subtle and gross. But it's not for the timid." - Q
"God is, but at the same time God also is not. The Universe is governed by blind chance and at the same time by a providence with ethical preoccupations. Suffering is gratuitous and pointless, but also valuable and necessary. The universe is an imbecile sadist, but also, simultaneously, the most benevolent of parents. Everything is rigidly predetermined, but the will is perfectly free. This list of contradictions could be lengthened so as to include all problems that have ever vexed the philosopher and the theologian."-Aldous Huxley
"'Homer was wrong,' wrote Heracleitus of Ephesus, 'Homer was wrong in saying: 'Would that strife might perish from among gods and men!' He did not see that he was praying for the destruction of the universe; for if his prayer was heard, all things would pass away."-Aldous Huxley
"i don't think we physically demonstrate that we are conscious beings. we tend to assume we are, and reason analogically that others are, as well."--legodesi
"The lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging and kicking them into obedience."-Aldous Huxley
"It nettles men to find that truth should be so simple."-Goethe
"Their account of the Florida expedition underlines the general principle I enunciated earlier: that the longer men have operated in the New World and the more they have become accustomed to the carnage and butchery around them, the more brutal and the more wicked have been the crimes they commit against God and their fellow-men."-Bartolome De Las Casas
"The hero of our story descended the bean-stalk, and came back to the common world, where fare and work were alike hard; where ugly competitors were much commoner than beautiful princesses; and where the everlasting battle with self was much less sure to be crowned with victory than a turn-to with a giant. We have done the like. Thousands upon thousands of our fellows, thousands of years ago, have preceded us in finding themselves face to face with the same dread problem of evil. They also have seen that the cosmic process is evolution; that it is full of wonder, full of beauty, and, at the same time, full of pain. They have sought to discover the bearing of these great facts on ethics; to find out whether there is, or is not, a sanction for morality in the ways of the cosmos."-T.H. Huxley, "Evolution and Ethics"
"Even purely intellectual progress brings about its revenges. Problems settled in a rough and ready way by rude men, absorbed in action, demand renewed attention and show themselves to be still unread riddles when men have time to think. The beneficent demon, doubt, whose name is Legion and who dwells amongst the tombs of old faiths, enters into mankind and thenceforth refuses to be cast out. Sacred customs, venerable dooms of ancestral wisdom, hallowed by tradition and professing to hold good for all time, are put to the question. Cultured reflection asks for their credentials; judges them by its own standards; finally, gathers those of which it approves into ethical systems, in which the reasoning is rarely much more than a decent pretext for the adoption of foregone conclusions."-T.H. Huxley, "Evolution and Ethics"
"Now when the ancient sage, whether Indian or Greek, who had attained to this conception of goodness, looked the world, and especially human life, in the face, he found it as hard as we do to bring the course of evolution into harmony with even the elementary requirements of the ethical ideal of the just and the good."-T.H. Huxley, "Evolution and Ethics"
"God gave man two ears, but only one mouth, that he might hear twice as much as he speaks."-A 2,000 year old axiom of Epictetus the Stoic
"I will be arriving in Paris tomorrow evening. Don't wash."--Napoleon, in a letter to Josephine
"Luther was the first person in 1500 years to understand Paul, and he misunderstood him."-Unkown
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