"Christianity...made, for nearly 1,500 years, persecution, religious wars, massacres, theological feuds and bloodshed, heresy huntings and heretic burnings, prisons, dungeons, anathemas, curses, opposition to science, hatred of liberty, spiritual bondage, the life without love or laughter."

-- M. M. Mangasarian

#Spiritual Quotes #Religious Quotes #Laughter Quotes

“Casting an eye on the education of children, from whence I can make a judgment of my own, I observe they are instructed in religious matters before they can reason about them, and consequently that all such instruction is nothing else but filling the tender mind of a child with prejudices.”

Source : George Berkeley (1837). “Works: Account of His Life and Letters”, p.122
“People in China say: 'If you love your children, send them to New York. If you hate your children, also send them to New York.”
“Knowing how to calculate something is not the same as understanding it. Having a computer to calculate the origin of mass for us may be convincing, but is not satisfying. Fortunately we can understand it too.”

Source : "The Lightness of Being - Mass, Ether and the Unification of Forces". Book by Frank Wilczek, 2008.
“In the first years after the systemic transition, our screens showed American entertainment that had not been available before, or had been available only sporadically.”
“Thereâ€™s a redemptive power that making a choice has rather than feeling like youâ€™re an effect to all the things that are happening. Make a choice. Just decide what itâ€™s gonna be, who youâ€™re gonna be, how you are going to do it. Just decide. And from that point, the universe will get out of your way.”
“I give culture this meaning: exercise of thought, acquisition of general ideas, habit of connecting causes and effects ... I believe that it means thinking well, whatever one thinks, and therefore acting well, whatever one does.”
“I try to keep in my mind the simple question: Am I trying to do good or make myself look good? Too many of our responsibilities get added to our plate when we are trying to please people, impress people, prove ourselves, acquire power, increase our prestige. All those motivations are about looking good more than doing good.”
“I think I've always just been kinda geeky and got to play some mildly appealing roles.”

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