"The new religion without any secrets is philosophy. The old religion, said Aristotle, is necessary only for the uneducated; Confucius, Buddha, Voltaire and Lessing were of the same opinion."

-- Artur Phleps

#Philosophy Quotes #Secret Quotes #Opinion Quotes

“The attempts to command the climate and decide about the temperature on our planet are wrong and arrogant. I wrote a book about it which was published in English under the title Blue Planet in Green Shackles.”

Source : "DECKER: 5 Questions with President Vaclav Klaus". Interview with Brett M. Decker, www.washingtontimes.com. September 25, 2012.
“When I returned to the United Kingdom, I found that I could no longer justify Islamist extremism as the antidote.”

Source : Source: www.abc.net.au
“What is madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance?”

Source : Theodore Roethke (2011). “The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke”, p.341, Anchor
“Age has a good mind and sorry shanks.”

Source : Pietro Aretino (1933). “The Works”
“Be you and I think people will recognize the special things about yourself. Just be you, and be you to the fullest.”
“I can take a phrase that's rarely heard/Flip it - now it's a daily word”
“Poetry is another space, like love, where we extend that extra credit to the writer.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“A cynic is just a man who found out when he was about ten that there wasn't any Santa Claus, and he's still upset. Yes, there'll be more war ; and soon, I don't doubt. There always has been. There'll be deaths and disappointments and failures. When they come, you meet them.”

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