The greatest truth ever told in human history
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Voltaire has a few
“Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers”
“Prejudices are what fools use for reason.”
“It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong”
“Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.”
“If there were no God, it would have been necessary to invent him.”
“Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do”
“Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.”
“Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road”
“As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities”
“It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets”
“Once the people begin to reason, all is lost”
“Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers”
“Prejudices are what fools use for reason.”
“It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong”
“Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.”
“If there were no God, it would have been necessary to invent him.”
“Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do”
“Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.”
“Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road”
“As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities”
“It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets”
“Once the people begin to reason, all is lost”
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw
GregCentauro
Banned
"Let your women keep silent." - 1 Corinthians 14, 34
Ace Bandage
The one and only.
"If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart." - Socrates
meesterperfect
Hiliary 2020
"Let's go down that hill men, I think they're friendly indians"-
Gen. George Armstrong Custer
Gen. George Armstrong Custer
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
There are 3 different kinds of people in this world, those who see, those who see when they are shown, and those who never see.
-unknown
-Arthur Schopenhauer
There are 3 different kinds of people in this world, those who see, those who see when they are shown, and those who never see.
-unknown
"Humans are slow and easy to kill."
-Some random guy who survived a tiger attack-
-Some random guy who survived a tiger attack-
reality does not matter to those whose beliefs are set, to those people their beliefs are reality
of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity, nothing exceeds the criticisms made of the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed. -herman melville
of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity, nothing exceeds the criticisms made of the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed. -herman melville
PirateKing
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"Everything that humans can imagine, Is a possibility in reality."
I can see where that statement is going, but it's kind of flawed or at least hyperbole. It would be better to say the wisest statement one can make is, "I don't know" when that's the truth. What one knows matters, but it's also important to realize the limitations of ones knowledge and accept what one doesn't know. Not doing so can be dangerous, but that doesn't mean people don't know anything.
Jagger69
Three lullabies in an ancient tongue
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness."
Thomas Jefferson, 1776.
Thomas Jefferson, 1776.
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