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“Life is one long struggle in the dark.”
Source : Titus Lucretius Carus (1937). “Lucretius, de rerum natura”
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“I'm into a lot of Eastern philosophy. It's kind of like theosophy; it's about finding the relationships between all the great religions and focusing in on the good stuff.”
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“The word right should be excluded from political language, as the word cause from the language of philosophy.”
Source : Auguste Comte, John Henry Bridges (1865). “A General View of Positivism”, p.383, London, Trübner and Company
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“I'm a lapsed Buddhist like I'm a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.”
Source : Interview by Christopher Kompanek, www.avclub.com. March 23, 2012.
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“"Gospel preachers nowadays preach the gospel of the Crucifixion, the Apostles preached the gospel of the Resurrection as well. The Crucifixion loses its meaning without the Resurrection. Without the Resurrection the death of Christ was only the heroic death of a noble martyr; with the Resurrection it is the atoning death the Son of God. It shows that death to be of sufficient value to cover our sins, for it was the sacrifice of the Son of God."”
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“Truth is so impossible. Something has to be done for it.”
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“Today, 9 May, exactly forty-nine months and three days after the Fascist attack on Yugoslavia, the most powerful aggressive force in Europe, Germany, has capitulated.”
Source : "Tito: A Biography". Book by Jasper Ridley, 1994.
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“To get the full value of joy You must have someone to divide it with. After all these years I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her.”