"Das Ganze der Erfahrung gleicht einer Geheimschrift und die Philosophie der Entzifferung derselben. The whole of experience is like a cryptograph, and philosophy is like the deciphering of it."

-- Arthur Schopenhauer

#Philosophy Quotes

“I don't know any more about America than one knows being trapped in it.”

Source : Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 30, 2012.
“In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.”
“For the Puritans, the God-centered life meant making the quest for spiritual and moral holiness the great business of life.”

Source : Leland Ryken (2010). “Worldly Saints: The Puritans As They Really Were”, p.301, Harper Collins
“William 'Big Bill' Rockefeller, who sold cancer 'cures' from a medicine wagon, taught him to leap into his arms from a tall chair. One time his father held his arms out to catch him but pulled them away as little John jumped. The fallen son was told sternly, 'Remember, never trust anyone completely, not even me.'”

Source : "Rule By Secrecy: The Hidden History that Connects the Trilateral Commision, the Freemasons and the Great Pyramids". Book by Jim Marrs, April 26, 2000.
“I was growing up in the 50's and 60's. Back then they didn't even know what dyslexia was.”
“I like the idea of doing a little movie every week. When you do a movie, you don't know when it's going to come out. In a year, you forget about it. I forget stories that happened on set. I forget who I worked with. I forget my lines, my characters' names. This is so fresh. We make it, and it's on TV. It feels more like a living, breathing thing.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“Religion is a Snare and a Racket,”
“Next time someone tells me they believe in God, I'll say 'Oh which one? Zeus? Hades? Jupiter? Mars? Odin? Thor? Krishna? Vishnu? Ra?...' If they say 'Just God. I only believe in the one God,' I'll point out that they are nearly as atheistic as me. I don't believe in 2,870 gods, and they don't believe in 2,869.”

Source : "Ricky Gervais: Why I’m an Atheist". blogs.wsj.com. December 19, 2010.

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