"To seek the highest good is to live well."

-- Saint Augustine

#Philosophical Quotes #Live Well Quotes #Wells Quotes

“A priest friend of mine has cautioned me away from the standard God of our childhoods, who loves you and guides you and then, if you are bad, roasts you: God as a high school principal in a gray suit who never remembered your name but is always leafing unhappily through your files.”
“The trouble with most of the things that people want is that they get them.”
“I have a glitch, too. Sometimes I forget that Iâ€™m not human. I donâ€™t think that happens to most androids.”
“It was as if this night were only one of thousands of nights, world without end, night curving into night to make a great arching line of which I couldnâ€™t see the end, a night in which I roamed alone under cold, mindless stars.”
“When Benedict dies, he will have the pleasure of standing before whatever furious God he believes in, to answer for how it was that he knew for undeniable fact that one -- if not dozens -- of his priests repeatedly molested, abused and/or raped young children for decades, and he did nothing to stop it. How much does God believe the pope's argument that Vatican PR trumps pedophilia? Joe Ratzinger, 82, will soon find out.”

Source : "The end of the wicked old Mormons". www.sfgate.com. May 7, 2010.
“Endangered forests are being slaughtered for toilet paper”
“I think a scientist's job is to explore the Universe, to explore the cosmos around us. People always want to know - why is that useful? Well, on just pure fundamental grounds, on some level it's like art, it's like umm, music, it's aesthetics, it's like philosophy. You want to know where you are in the Universe.”
“I just think in this world of extreme religious pluralism, the great spectrum of things ranging from the healthy and the respectable, and the balance and the true and tried, you go down to quite bizarre things which are very risky for people, particularly people who are young or vulnerable or unable to discriminate.”

Source : "Witches in Queensland?". "The Religion Report" with John Cleary, www.abc.net.au. December 13, 2000.

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