"Whenever people have used religious documents to make accurate predictions about our base knowledge of the physical world, they have been famously wrong."

-- Neil deGrasse Tyson

#Religious Quotes #People Quotes #World Quotes

“Life as it should be: all friends, all art, all music, all love, all the time.”
“Approach the New Year with resolve to find the opportunities hidden in each new day.”
“When I was a kid, we always had big gardens, acres of stuff we grew out in the yard.”
“It smells terrible in here.' Well, what do you expect? The human body, when confined, produces certain odors which we tend to forget in this age of deodorants and other perversions. Actually, I find the atmosphere of this room rather comforting. Schiller needed the scent of apples rotting in his desk in order to write. I, too, have my needs. You may remember that Mark Twain preferred to lie supinely in bed while composing those rather dated and boring efforts which contemporary scholars try to prove meaningful. Veneration of Mark Twain is one of the roots of our current intellectual stalemate.”

Source : John Kennedy Toole (2004). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.70, LSU Press
“Artists hold out the mirror to the bruises on the face of the world.”

Source : Josef Škvorecký (1971). “All the bright young men and women: a personal history of the Czech cinema”, P. Martin Associates
“Someone real," I hear myself saying. "Someone who never has to pretend, and who I never have to pretend around. Someone who's smart, but knows how to laugh at himself. Someone who would listen to a symphony and start to cry, because he understands music can be too big for words. Someone who knows me better than I know myself. Someone I want to talk to first thing in the morning and last thing at night. Someone I feel like I've known my whole life, even if I haven't.”
“Men had been living a proud life, having felt no need for the spirit-until Christianity invented it.”
“I’m aware of the- the fact that people elsewhere in the world think differently from us. I can sort of see us, us Americans with their eyes. And not all that I see is- is attractive. I see an insular people who are- are insensitive to foreign sensibilities, who are lazy, obese, complacent and increasingly perplexed as to why we are losing our place in the world to people who are more dynamic than us and more disciplined”

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