This is a compilation of my favourite quotes and my own quotes (from my blog and other sources). Post your own favourite quote/own quote in the comment section (it could make it into my list). I know sometimes that things can be misquoted so if you have the authority to know that I have misquoted something or someone, please let me know in the comments and I will fix it! With the internet and translations of texts things can easily be misquoted.
The newest quotes added are in red (for if you are staying updated with my My Quotes page).
The newest quotes added are in red (for if you are staying updated with my My Quotes page).
(Last updated April 29th, 2015)
For a quick read, I have made my favourite favourite quotes the largest.
My Quotes
On Religion/Theism/Atheism
"The funny thing about the atheism vs theism debate is it doesn't matter what side has more solid evidence than the other because in the end, even if atheism has 1,000,000 pieces of evidence that supports there is no god, and theism has 500,000, that evidence doesn't actually make it more real... we still don't know for 100% CERTAIN."
"Religion hasn't been passed on because it is logical or because people believe in it, but because it gives a sense of comfort and structure to society"
"I dislike the role of the churches, priests, the study of the bible, and pretty much anything surrounding religion."
"Just because religion is true, doesn't make theism true."
"To say "I don't believe in god" implies god exists, but you just refute his existence. It is like saying "I don't believe in hamburgers". Instead, say "god doesn't exist" because that implies nothing other than god doesn't exist. "
"I want to know the first mind who thought up the idea of a god."
"I feel the need to push my limits because I look at theism almost like a societal crisis. A mass group of people believe in something that doesn't exist! Can you really blame me for wanting to stop it?"
On Family/Friends
"If I am going to be in this society, I am going to be honest with you and say that in society, family isn't as necessary as it has been in the past. Families are broken. Dead."
On Society
"I personally believe society has over-romantisized everything and society itself is the purpose of life."
"People are not all inherently good."
"I have respect for a very small amount of people in this world."
"I understand that to get to where you want to, you have to follow society. I can't be a complete non-conformist, nevertheless, I still think I am."
"Being realistic means having no hopes, dreams or faith. It means making what would be a dream, a goal with steps, action and achievement."
"Being realistic means having no hopes, dreams or faith. It means making what would be a dream, a goal with steps, action and achievement."
"This is why people are still theists. People are afraid of being wrong, they are afraid of being a non-conformist, they are afraid to go back on the views they once held and carry on new ones."
"the one idea I always come back to in my discoveries is that people fear being wrong"
"Question things. You must question things or else change doesn't happen. Some strong societal influences need to stop being positive and ignorant and need to get skeptical and question all good things and look for the good in bad things. That's the only time when being positive is okay. Looking for the upside in every bad thing, and the bad in the right."
"Assume everyone is a genius and what they're doing is intentional"
"Assume everyone is a genius and what they're doing is intentional"
"We actually really know nothing. Well, at least I do not know anything. "
"The real life should involve questioning, studying and your mind playing an active role in the understanding of great metaphysical questions and the questioning of ethics. The mind should have to do this. Why? It's simple. Blind commitment. If our society just keeps progressing we are going to start forgetting why we do the things we do."
" The Internet is so easy to censor rather than a book, so if we all learned everything we knew fom one large database, sure we would all know the same things but knowing things wouldn't be interesting anymore because there would be no fight to the facts, no bias, everything is just one way."
"I think it's weird you have to pay for food because food is natural and so are humans so denying humans the free things of the earth is weird."
On Education
"I want to be a teacher so badly that its almost insane. Almost, well it is."
"Pink shirts do not deter bullying. Education does."
"Don't trust academics. Listen to them without bias and then question the shit out of everything they say. That is my advice."
On Gender Studies/Feminism/LGBTQ
"Just because someone has the belief that all people should naturally be paired guy-to-girl, and that two members of the same sex cannot have a natural/normal relationship, does not make them homophobic. That is their belief, that is their opinion. Some religions do not believe in homosexuality, some people do not believe in homosexuality."
"I really, really, really, really find extremist feminism completely unnecessary in Canada."
"I believe that the perfect feminist isn't a feminist, they are an egalitarian."
"It is impossible to have equality, anyways. Men can never give birth, no matter what. Women will always be the one who gets pregnant. Men will always be physically stronger and women will be physically weaker. This is a scientific fact. I am tired of people trying to overrule the natural with "morals"."
"Dear Feminists, there may be a statistical inequality, but I am not disadvantaged. Stop speaking for me, you're embarrassing us all."
Fun/Funny Quotes
"I'm too inspired to sleep. I'll just stay awake daydreaming."
"I get away with a lot of stupid shit because people think I'm nice because my name is Sarah and I am a brunette."
"I can't wait to get my BA in Philosophy so I can finally open up that Philosophy store!"
"I pledge allegiance on this day to Tina Fey of America, and to the republic of people who write with their left hands, one infatuation with Tina fey, with brunette hair and a good sense of humour for all."
"You can't judge me without a degree but I will give you an honourary degree in Brown Nosing and Jerkfacing from the University of Fuck You."
"If eating is a natural human habit and so is defecating/urinating, why do we eat in front of each other, but not shit/pee?"
"It's really hard to be a mean person when your name is Sarah. It's kind of like when a puppy growls."
Other Philosophies
"There is no natural purpose for humans to be here."
"People can be inspired by really stupid small things to make life changes"
"I don't think that people should be expected to be philanthropic."
"The way you look is what people first know about you."
"In this world you can either be optimistic or realistic."
"Most of my life is imagined"
"My life is so fucking weird all of the time and when it is normal I start acting weird because that's what I know best"
"I wanted to just write and have everything come out natural and amazing. Well you know what? That only happens like 2% of the time. Most writing requires planning, or else it sucks and/or is confusing."
Quotes
On Religion/Theism/Atheism
"I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time" - Friedrich Nietzsche
"There are good atheists and bad atheists. There are good believes and bad believers. A cunt is a cunt and not god has ever changed that" - Ricky Gervais
"In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point." - Nietzsche
"You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories and you say that we are the ones that need help?" - Mark Twain
"My feelings as a Christian points me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter. It points me to the man who once in loneliness, surrounded only by a few followers... who, God's truth! was greatest not as a sufferer but as a fighter. In boundless love as a Christian and as a man, I read... 'We were convinced that the people needs and requires this faith'. We have therefore undertaken the fight against the atheistic movement and that not merely with a few theoretical declarations: we have stamped it out" - Adolph Hitler
"It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it. I am, of course, and have always been an atheist" - Albert Einstein
"The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence" - Aldous Huxley
"All thinking men are atheists" - Ernest Hemingway
"You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories and you say that we are the ones that need help?" - Mark Twain
"My feelings as a Christian points me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter. It points me to the man who once in loneliness, surrounded only by a few followers... who, God's truth! was greatest not as a sufferer but as a fighter. In boundless love as a Christian and as a man, I read... 'We were convinced that the people needs and requires this faith'. We have therefore undertaken the fight against the atheistic movement and that not merely with a few theoretical declarations: we have stamped it out" - Adolph Hitler
"It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it. I am, of course, and have always been an atheist" - Albert Einstein
"If Jesus were alive today, the last thing he'd be is a Christian" - Mark Twain
"'You gotta respect everyone's beliefs...'? No, you don't! That's what gets us in trouble. You have to acknowledge everyone's beliefs. And then you have to reserve the right to go 'that is fucking stupid, are you kidding me?!'" - Patton Oswalt
"The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence" - Aldous Huxley
"All thinking men are atheists" - Ernest Hemingway
"It annoys me that the burden of proof is on us. It should be: 'You came up with the idea, why do you believe it?' I could tell you I've got superpowers, but I can't go up to people saying 'Prove I can't fly.' They'd go 'What do you mean 'Prove you can't fly?' Prove you can!'" - Ricky Gervais (on Atheism)
"The church says the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the church" - Ferdinand Magetan
"Anybody who tells you that he has some way of leading you to spiritual enlightenment is like somebody who picks your pocket and sells you your own watch" - Alan Watts
"It will yet be the proud boast of women that they never contributed a line to the Bible" - George W. Foote
"As an atheist, I believe that all life is unspeakably previous because it's only here for a brief moment, a flare against the dark, and then it's gone forever" J Michael Straczynski
"Faith: not wanting to know what the truth is" Friedrich Nietzsche
"I would like to see some proof that there is a God, and if you say 'a baby's smile' I'm going to kick you right in the stomach."----Seth MacFarlane
"The church says the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the church" - Ferdinand Magetan
"Anybody who tells you that he has some way of leading you to spiritual enlightenment is like somebody who picks your pocket and sells you your own watch" - Alan Watts
"It will yet be the proud boast of women that they never contributed a line to the Bible" - George W. Foote
"As an atheist, I believe that all life is unspeakably previous because it's only here for a brief moment, a flare against the dark, and then it's gone forever" J Michael Straczynski
"Faith: not wanting to know what the truth is" Friedrich Nietzsche
On Family/Friends/Relationships/Love
"Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty." - Cicero
"A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others." - Cicero
On Society
"It's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well" - Charles Bukowski"
"I am not an Athenian, nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world." - Socrates
"Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy" ~ Plato
"We can do anything we like as long as it is UNIMPORTANT" - Theodore Kaczynski
"The important thing is to not stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing" - Albert Einstein
"The saddest aspect of life is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom" Isaac Asimov
"As long as enough people can be frightened, then all people can be ruled. That is how it works in a democratic system and mass fear becomes the ticket to destroy rights across the board" - James Bovard
"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently" - Friedrich Nietzsche
"Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it" - Mark Twain
"I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought, there are so many people in the world. There must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do. I would imagine her, and imagine she must be out there thinking of me too. Well, I hope that if you are out there and read this and know that yes, it's true I'm here and I'm just as strange as you" - Frida Kahlo
"The earth is what we all have in common" - Wendell Berry
"And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good" John Steinbeck
"Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it" - Mark Twain
On Education
"Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in. " - Schopenhauer
"Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think" - Albert Einstein
"The great difficulty in education is getting experience out of ideas" - George Santayana
"If the purpose for learning is to score well on a test, we've lost sight of the real reason for learning" - Jeannie Fulbright
"I cannot emphasize enough the importance of a good teacher" - Temple Grandin
On Gender Studies/Feminism/LGBTQ
(none at the moment)
(none at the moment)
Fun/Funny Quotes
"You know, a long time ago being crazy meant something. Nowadays everybody's crazy" - Charles Manson
"For business reasons, I must preserve the outward signs of sanity.” ― Mark Twain.
"Ugly, pear-shaped and bitchy? I prefer the terms offbeat, business class-assed and exhausted, but I'll take what I can get" - Tina Fey
"People are going to say you are weird and that's okay because weird people make life interesting and those other people probably suck" - Unknown
"I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person"- Audrey Hepburn
Political Quotes
"Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber" - Plato
"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform" Mark Twain
"Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average" Jim Rohn
Other Philosophies
"We can't all do everything." - Virgil
"There are a lot of things about this world we don't know"
"Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind" - Cicero
"It's easier to fool people than to convince them they have been fooled" - Mark Twain
"Nothing haunts us like the things we don't say" - Mitch Albom
"Liberty is about our rights to question everything" - Ai WeiWei
"You have to do stuff that average people don't understand because those are the only good things" - Andy Warhol
"Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it" - Kahlil Gibran
"Nothing haunts us like the things we don't say" - Mitch Albom
"Liberty is about our rights to question everything" - Ai WeiWei
"You have to do stuff that average people don't understand because those are the only good things" - Andy Warhol
"Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it" - Kahlil Gibran
"No one can give you better advice than yourself." - Cicero
“The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it he knows too little.” - Mark Twain
“The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.” - James Branch Cabell
"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work" ~ Aristotle
"Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability" ~ Schopenhauer
"New rule: If you are going to use the words "socialist" or "communist" you must be able to define them" - Blue Street Journal
"Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind it doesn't matter" - Mark Twain
"Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia" - E.L. Doctorow
"You can't be that kid standing at the top of the water slide over thinking it. You have to go down the chute"- Tina Fey
"He is exactly the poem I wanted to write" - Mary Oliver
"Some people are old at 18 and young at 90... time is a concept that humans created" - Yoko Ono
"People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel" - Maya Angelou
"A day without laughter is a day wasted" - Charlie Chaplin
"But I don't want comfort. I want poetry. I want danger. I want freedom. I want goodness. I want sin" - Aldous Huxley
"We do not see things as they are, we see things as we are." - Anais Nin
"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it enough" - Albert Einstein
"Opinions don't affect facts. But facts should affect opinions, and do, if you're rational." - Ricky Gervais
"Behind your thoughts and feelings there stands a mighty ruler, an unknown sage- whose name is self" Friedrich Nietzsche
"All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking" Friedrich Nietzsche
"It's hard enough to remember my opinions, without also having to remember the reasons for them" - Friedrich Nietzsche
"One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star" - Friedrich Nietzsche
"Laughter without a tinge of philosophy is but a sneeze of humor. Genuine humor is replete with widsom" - Mark Twain
"Of all of the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most." - Mark Twain
"I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it." - Mark Twain
"I have no special talent. I am just passionately curious" - Albert Einstein
"To be great is to be misunderstood" - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"These are the voices which we hear in solitude but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world" - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of everyone of its' members" - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist" - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature" - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Expect me not to show cause why I seek or why I exclude company" - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Do not tell me... of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations. Are they my poor? I tell thee thou foolish philanthropist that I grudge the dollar, the time, the cent I give to such men as I do not belong to me and to whom I don't belong" - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I do not wish to expiate, but to live." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"My life is for itself and not for a spectacle" - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness in the independence of solitude" - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Their every truth is not quiet true" - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"But why should you keep your head over your shoulder?" - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Speak what you think now in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said today" - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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