"I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind - that its modest and greatly overestimated services on the ethical side have been more than overcome by the damage it has done to clear and honest thinking."

-- H. L. Mencken

#Believe Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Damage Quotes

“And why do we, who say we oppose tyranny and demand freedom of speech, allow people to go to prison and be vilified, and magazines to be closed down on the spot, for suggesting another version of history.”
“The most powerful idea that's entered the world in the last few thousand years - the idea of grace - is the reason I would like to be a Christian.”
“What's difficult in life is to stay centered when somebody does or says something that tempts us to close our hearts because their heart was closed. That is hard. But that is also how we grow. We go through those circumstances in order to evolve into people who can hold to our loving center no matter what the world throws us.”
“In the digital universe, our personal history and its sense of narrative is succeeded by our social networking profile - a snapshot of the current moment. The information itself - our social graph of friends and likes - is a product being sold to market researchers in order to better predict and guide our futures.”
“Common sense is that which tells us the world is flat.”

Source : "Language in Thought and Action". Book by S. I. Hayakawa, 1952.
“Work and leisure are complementary parts of the same living process and cannot be separated without destroying the joy of work and the bliss of leisure.”
“Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat.”
“You do design because you feel it inside; you have a moral issue to spread quality in our environment.”

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