"Heretics were most often bitterly persecuted for the their least deviation from accepted belief. It was precisely their obstinacy about trifles that irritated the righteous to madness."

-- Lev Shestov

#Atheism Quotes #Belief Quotes #Irritated Quotes

“The best aspects of every vampire, with all of their gifts, what makes them really special is just an enhanced version of what they were when they were human.”
“We see only the simple motion of descent, since that other circular one common to the Earth, the tower, and ourselves remains imperceptible. There remains perceptible to us only that of the stone, which is not shared by us; and, because of this, sense shows it as by a straight line, always parallel to the tower, which is built upright and perpendicular upon the terrestrial surface.”
“Despair is better treated with hope, not dope.”

Source : Lancet I: 954 (1958)
“I think that if people look deeply enough into their trading patterns, they find that, on balance, including all their goals, they are really getting what they want, even though they may not understand it or want to admit it.”
“Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another's, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.”
“The greatness that would make us grave, Is but an empty thing. What more than mirth would mortals have? The cheerful man's a king.”

Source : Isaac BICKERSTAFFE (1814). “Love in a Village ... As performed at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden. Printed ... from the prompt book. With remarks by Mrs. Inchbald”, p.14
“Be sure that those in whom you trust are led by God each day”
“When finished writing a post, go back and add bullets, sub heads, spacing; eliminate long paragraphs or sentences.”

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