"The most important philosophy I think is that even if it isn't true you must absolutely assume there is no afterlife."

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Stephen Fry

#Philosophy Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Afterlife Quotes

“You give up your childhood. You miss proms and games and high-school events, and people say it's awful... I say it was a good trade. You miss something but I think I gained more than I lost.”
“In a contest between new technology and old ways of life, it is the traditional rhythms that will hold. Traditional societies make up more than two-thirds of the world, the two-thirds that will not be going online to "save" time but will remain wedded to the knowledge that if the bus doesn't come that day, it will come someday. After all, there is nothing but time.”

Source : Thomas Bernhard (1991). “Yes”, p.35, University of Chicago Press
“It was better that a little blood should be shed that much blood should be saved. The blood that was shed was bad blood; the blood that was saved was good blood.”
“You can't make a cloudy day a sunny day, but can embrace it and decide it's going to be a good day after all.”
“It was the combination of many factors... With most people, suicide is like Russian roulette. Only one chamber has a bullet. With the Lisbon girls, the gun was loaded. A bullet for family abuse. A bullet for genetic predisposition. A bullet for historical malaise. A bullet for inevitable momentum. The other two bullets are impossible to name, but that doesn't mean the chambers were empty.”
“Give me blood and I will give you freedom!”

Source : "The Great Speeches of Modern India". Book by Rudrangshu Mukherjee, 2011.
“Why don't the men propose, Mamma? Why don't the men propose?”

Source : Thomas Haynes Bayly (1844). “Songs, Ballads, and Other Poems”, p.192
“What do we have in life, really? If we're lucky we get to a certain age, and we have each other. We have the food we like. We have our crazy little rituals. And we have each other.”

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