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Blessed are the mendacious, for they shall grow wealthy beyond their wildest dreams.

Greed Quotes / Blameless in Abaddon Quotes

The tragedy of my species xxx is that it does not live in its own time. Homo sapiens is locked on history's rearview mirror, never the road ahead, bent on catching some presumed lost paradise xxxxxxThe human race is destroying itself with nostalgia...

Only Begotten Daughter Quotes

The heart is a pump, xxx weak and fickle as any other machine, and sometimes an embolism of indifference stops affection's flow.

Only Begotten Daughter Quotes

Murray crossed the sandy lawn using the cautious, inoffensive gait any prudent Jew might adopt under the circumstances,

Only Begotten Daughter Quotes

Unless I miss my guess, Yolly is about to become obsessed with horses. It's practically a stage on Piaget's developmental profile.

(On stoicism) "As a matter of fact, the experiment has already started. Yesterday at lunch I had a smaller piece of pecan pie than usual, and I passed up the scoop of vanilla ice cream entirely. It's like I said in my essay. 'Just as nature abhors a vacuum, a Stoic abhors satiety.' What's more, as you may have noticed, I've stopped smoking.""But not swearing.""I'm working on it."...."The stoics believed that in bearing pain without complain, a mortal might transcend the mundane world and enter the eternal matrix of divine thought.

Be happy to," I said, cringing to hear such a dumb, folksy locution escape my lips, then launched into my well-rehearsed precis. The fact that humankind now finds itself in a post-Darwinian epistemological condition, I explained, need not trouble us from an ethical perspective.

If a cavalcade of organized killing has nothing to teach us, I don’t know what does.

The Eternal Footman Quotes Violence Quotes

There was an otherworldly quality about him, the aura of one privy to secret communiques in forgotten languages.

Eccentricity Quotes The Eternal Footman Quotes

A human life was measured out in bouquets, was it not? New mothers received them. So did graduating seniors, young lovers, blushing brides, and the dead. A flower woman was time’s avatar, colorizing the hours, perfuming fleeting instants.

Measuring life Quotes The Eternal Footman Quotes

Our policy is impossible to justify on rational grounds, which is why we’ve started invoking national security and other shibboleths.

City of Truth Quotes

Do you realize there was a time when the United States of America actually made sense? A time when you could look at a Norman Rockwell painting of a GI peeling potatoes for Mom and get all choked up and nobody'd laugh at you?

Golden past Quotes Towing Jehovah Quotes

I wanted a real diary, but there wasn't time to visit a stationery store, so instead I ran down to Thrift Drug and got you. According to your cover, you're an 'Official Popeye the Sailor Spiral-Bound Notebook, copyright © 1959 King Features Syndicate.' When I look into your wizened face, Popeye, I know you're a man I can trust.

Sarcastic humor Quotes Towing Jehovah Quotes

WARNING: THE SURGEON GENERAL’S CRUSADE AGAINST THIS PRODUCT MAY DISTRACT YOU FROM THE MYRIAD WAYS YOUR GOVERNMENT FAILS TO PROTECT YOUR HEALTH.

City of Truth Quotes

They introduced themselves as Agent Jones and Agent Brown — their real names, I later learned, though at the time I didn't believe them.

Humor Quotes

We need to keep domesticating religion. It’s such an unpredictable beast.

Beast Quotes Religion Quotes

You speak of Sorcery. It so happens that in the investigations leading first to my Conjectures concerning Light and later to my System of the World, I fell upon a pretty Proof that Wicked Spirits enjoy no essential Existence, being but Desires of the Mind.

The Last Witchfinder Quotes

Abide with me, fleshling, and I shall teach you to run with the fluxions.

The Last Witchfinder Quotes

All I ask, Madam, is to share with thee a common center of gravity.

The Last Witchfinder Quotes

A universe without coincidence would be an exceedingly strange place xxx

Only Begotten Daughter Quotes

Manichean dualism is the single worst idea people ever came up with — this notion that you can divide humankind into the children of light and the children of darkness.

Light Quotes / Darkness Quotes Dualism Quotes Manichean Quotes

If there is a god, I think he has a sense of humour. He does not require human beings to protect him from satire.

God Quotes Satire Quotes

Above all, the Stoics sought wisdom, a condition that I myself hope to achieve after I stop wrecking and burning things.

The Philosopher's Apprentice Quotes

The Enlightenment may have indeed outlived its usefulness, but it is only through Reason's protocols that one can make a coherent case for Reason's limitations. O ye of little skepticism, kindly acknowledge your debt to that idiom on which you so glibly heap scorn.

The Last Witchfinder Quotes

Let's admit it, people: nobody understands consciousness. Psychology hasn't had a Newton yet.

The Last Witchfinder Quotes

Face it, people, there is more to your malaise than celestial mechanics. If you want to know why you feel so bad, you must look beyond universal gravitation.

The Last Witchfinder Quotes

The precise metaphysical procedures by which a book goes about writing another book need not concern us here. Suffice to say that our human scribes remain entirely ignorant of their possession by bibliographic forces; the agent in question never doubts that his authorship is authentic.

The Last Witchfinder Quotes

...one day the world will notice that while E=mc2 ultimately gives you 177,000 dead Japanese civilians, F=ma lets you skate across a frozen lake on a winter's night, the wind caressing your face as you glide toward the hot-chocolate stand on the far shore.

The Last Witchfinder Quotes

...throughout history the community of readers has been prey to sinister forces - to pedants and priests, legislators and lunatics, deities and demagogues. You have paid for your passion in humiliation, mutilation, and sometimes even - as when Henry VIII burned Bible translator William Tyndale as a heretic - immolation. I salute you all, as do my fellow books.

The Last Witchfinder Quotes

4091 East Olympic Boulevard proved to be a nondescript one-storey sandstone building of the sort you drive blithely by every day, knowing it's full of paper-pushers and clock-watchers, and nobody's in there writing a symphony or taming a lion or having an orgasm.

Shambling Towards Hiroshima Quotes

At the heart of all truth lies a radiant cloud of unknowing, a glorious nugget of doubt, a shining core of impermanence.

Only Begotten Daughter Quotes

At last my liaison pulled up before a squat structure of poured concrete buttressed with steel, bleak and featureless, like a sepulcher for people who didn't believe in an afterlife.

Shambling Towards Hiroshima Quotes

I made the only decision I ever knew how to make,' Truman famously asserted in one of his carefully scripted reminiscences. What does that mean, exactly? Did Truman see himself as a professional decision-maker with a narrow specialty, the choice between destroying and not destroying Japanese cities?

Shambling Towards Hiroshima Quotes

Books don't repeat the same words over and over. The Gulliver's Travels whose whimsey amused you at twelve is not the Gulliver's Travels whose acid engaged you at thirty.

The Last Witchfinder Quotes

...God's penis would still rank high among those vistas a priest and a nun could not comfortably share.

Towing Jehovah Quotes

Ockham's disposable razors

Towing Jehovah Quotes

I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.

The Last Witchfinder Quotes

There are no atheists in foxholes" isn't an argument against atheism, it's an argument against foxholes.

Atheists Quotes Foxholes Quotes

The odor of bowel wind is known to every human, but the fragrance of book glue has crossed only a fraction of mortal nostrils. And yet it behooves us not to judge the unlettered too harshly. We must stay the impulse to write CHUCKLEHEAD above their doors and carve DOLT upon their tombstones.

[...] as Kurt Vonnegut pointed out [...] the literary novel has become extraordinarily privatistic of late. It's as if the big issues (Does God exist? from whence springs decency? what sort of species is Homo Sapiens?) were either settled or not worth discusssing, and serious writers should therefore confine themselves to their various ethnic heritages and interpersonal relationships.

Literature Quotes Nebula Awards Twenty-Seven Quotes Real life Quotes

The next time somebody announces that he plans to get Medieval on your ass, tell him you're going to get Renaissance on his gonads.

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