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There may be said to be two classes of people in the world: those who constantly divide the people of the world into two classes, and those who do not.
Author: Robert Charles Benchley
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It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.
Author: Giordano Bruno
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In a society in which it is a moral offense to be different from your neighbor your only escape is never to let them find out.
Author: Robert Heinlein
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Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error.
Author: Benjamin Rush
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People do not cooperate under the division of labor because they love or should love one another. They cooperate because this best serves their own interests. Neither love nor charity nor any other sympathetic sentiments but rightly understood selfishness is what originally impelled man to adjust himself to the requirements of society, to respect the rights and freedoms of his fellow men and to substitute peaceful collaboration for enmity and conflict.
Author: Ludwig Von Mises
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It is appropriate here to recall that the so-called Dark Ages began with the flight of the individuals into the protection of lords or chapters and came to an end when the individual again found it to his advantage to set forth on his own. We live at a time when everything conspires to push the individual into the fold.
Author: Bertrand De Jouvenal
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...everything is too important ever to be entrusted to professional experts, because every organization of such professionals and every established social organization becomes a vested-interest institution more concerned with its efforts to maintain itself or advance its own interests than to achieve the purpose that society expects it to achieve.
Author: Carroll Quigley
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The theory of evolution must be considered as a scientific theory, as theory, that is, proposed to explain or systemize a set of facts, and that no one has any claim to be considered as a serious rival to Darwin in the "discovery" of this theory who did not conduct his evolutionary studies upon a reasonably wide basis of facts. To have ideas, apercus, is not enough, and it is the overevalutation of such clever but uncontrolled guesses which is apt to produce the ludicrous fallacy of combination, in which fragments of the final theory are collected from widely scattered sources and are combined in such a way as to impugn the originality of him who was the first to see how such a synthesis was possible.
Author: P.r. Bell
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You cannot criticize the New Testament. It criticizes you.
Author: John Jay Chapman
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You can only cure retail but you can prevent wholesale.
Author: Brock Chisolm
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It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil. It behooves the well-intentioned, therefore, vigorously to watch the tendency of even their most highly prized institutions, since that which was established in the interests of the right, may so easily become the agent of the wrong.
Author: James Fenimore Cooper
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The Darwinian theory is in principle capable of explaining life. No other theory that has ever been suggested is in principle capable of explaining life.
Author: Richard Dawkins
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The only meaning of life worth caring about is one that can withstand our best efforts to examine it.
Author: Daniel C. Dennett
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Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
Author: Philip K. Dick
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The tapestry of history has no point at which you can cut it and leave the design intelligible.
Author: George Dix
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The real cause of personal existence is not the favor of the Almighty, but the sexual love of one's earthly parents.
Author: Ernst Heinrich Haeckel
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The several sorts of religion in the world are little more than so many spiritual monopolies.
Author: Lord Halifax
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A touchstone to determine the actual worth of an "intellectual"- find out how he feels about astrology.
Author: Robert Heinlein
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If anything were FULLY explained, everything would be explained.
Author: Friedrich Hebbel
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Anyone can see a forest fire. Skill lies in sniffing the first smoke.
Author: Robert Heinlein
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One man's "magic" is another man's engineering. "Supernatural" is a null word.
Author: Robert Heinlein
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Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.
Author: Robert Heinlein
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Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
Author: Robert Heinlein
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Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense.
Author: Robert Heinlein
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Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow if tomorrow might improve the odds.
Author: Robert Heinlein
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Specialization is for insects.
Author: Robert Heinlein
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If you pray hard enough, water will run uphill. How hard? Why, hard enough to make water run uphill, of course!
Author: Robert Heinlein
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Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.
Author: Robert Heinlein
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If a donkey bray at you, don't bray at him.
Author: George Herbert
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Stupidity is the devil. Look in the eye of a chicken and you'll know. It's the most horrifying, cannibalistic, and nightmarish creature in this world.
Author: Werner Herzog
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The unicorn is a very fierce beast with only one horn. To capture it a virgin maid is placed in the field. The unicorn approaches her, and resting in her lap, is so taken.
Author: Bishop Honorius
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Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.
Author: Thomas Henry Huxley
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Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.
Author: Thomas Henry Huxley
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There is nothing to be found in a beehive that is not submerged in a bee. And yet you can search a bee forever with cyclotron and fluoroscope, and you will never find the hive.
Author: Kevin Kelly
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There exist limitless opportunities in every industry. Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.
Author: Charles Kettering
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The meaning of life is not to be discovered only after death in some hidden, mysterious realm; on the contrary, it can be found by eating the succulent fruit of the Tree of Life and by living in the here and now as fully and creatively as we can.
Author: Paul Kurtz
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Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
Author: Martial
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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.
Author: W. Somerset Maugham
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That is the whole trouble with being a heretic. One usually must think out everything for oneself.
Author: Aubrey Menan
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American public education is a remarkable enterprise; it succeeds best where it fails. Imagine an industry that consistently fails to do what it sets out to do. a factory where this year's product is invariably sleazier than last year's but, nevertheless, better than next year's. Imagine a corporation whose executives are always spending vast sums of money on studies designed to discover just what it is they are supposed to do and then vaster sums for further studies on just how to do it. Imagine a plant devoted to the manufacture of factory seconds to be sold at a loss. Imagine a producer of vacuum cleaners that rarely work hiring whole platoons of engineers who will, in time, report that it is, in fact, true that the vacuum cleaners rarely really work, and who will, for a larger fee, be glad to find out why, if that's possible. If you discover some such outfit, don't invest in it. Unfortunately, we are all required to invest in public education.
Author: Richard Mitchell
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Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
Author: Cesare Pavese
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In most instances, all an argument proves is that two people are present.
Author: Tony Petito
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Trivial facts are often the best hints to what is going on.
Author: J.m. Roberts
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Only God helps the badly dressed.
Author: Spanish Proverb
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Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.
Author: Timothy Leary
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This strange disease of modern life, with its sick hurry, its divided aims.
Author: Matthew Arnold
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Any society that needs disclaimers has too many lawyers.
Author: Erik Pepke
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Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.
Author: Thomas Szasz
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What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
Author: Henry David Thoreau
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The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
Author: Lily Tomlin
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