"The idea that any personal deity could find pleasure or profit in torturing a poor woman, by accident, with a fiendish cruelty known to man only in perverted and insane temperaments, could not be held for a moment. For pure blasphemy, it made pure atheism a comfort."

-- Henry Adams

#Men Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Insane Quotes

“God himself has no right to be a tyrant.”

Source : William Godwin (1890). “Godwin's "Political Justice.": A Reprint of the Essay on "Property," from the Original Edition”
“I tell young people to reach for the stars. And I can't think of a greater high than you could possibly get than by inventing something.”
“Whether you have been aware of your thoughts in the past or not, now you are becoming aware. Right now, with the knowledge of The Secret, you are waking up from a deep sleep and becoming aware!”
“No matter how many times your amazing, absolutely brilliant work is rejected by the client, for whatever dopey, arbitrary reason, there is often another amazing, absolutely brilliant solution possible. Sometimes it's even better.”
“Good things come slow, especially in distance running.”
“The schools of the country are its future in miniature.”

Source : Tehyi Hsieh (1948). “Chinese epigrams inside out, and proverbs”
“I regard teaching religion as purveying lies.”
“We haven't had any more rain since it stopped raining.”

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