"Serious thinkers are few, and the world is ruled by crude ideas."

-- Carl L. Becker

#Ideas Quotes #World Quotes #Serious Quotes

“I do not believe in God. It seems to me that theists of all kinds have very largely failed to make their concept of a deity intelligible; and to the extent that they have made it intelligible, they have given us no reason to think that anything answers to it.”
“He that is conceited of his Wisdom, is readier to impose Error, than to receive Truth.”
“In wartime we provide truth with a bodyguard of lies because it is so precious.”
“It is said that the quality of recent immigration is undesirable. The time is quite within recent memory when the same thing was said of immigrants who, with their descendants, are now numbered among our best citizens.”
“Without involvement, there is no commitment. Mark it down, asterisk it, circle it, underline it. No involvement, no commitment.”
“I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.”
“I had to sign the paper to shut down the government. It's terrible.... [But] what the shutdown showed many, many people is the importance of the role of government. And as frustrated [as people get with] Washington, there are so many things [the government does] that are so important to people's lives every day. The panda cam, paying small businesses their loans - these are all things that shut down.”

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“And the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon, Little boy blue and the man in the moon. "When you coming home, dad?" "I don't know when, But we'll get together then. You know we'll have a good time then.”

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