"As to the gods, I have no means of knowing either that they exist or do not exist."

-- Protagoras

#Mean Quotes #Knowing Quotes #Atheism Quotes

“art speaks only to the mind, whereas nature speaks to all the faculties ...”
“In politics, there is no use looking beyond the next fortnight.”

Source : In letter from A. J. Balfour to 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, 24 March 1886, in A. J. Balfour 'Chapters of Autobiography' (1930) ch. 16
“That was what stuck in the craws of all the good women of Deptford: Mrs Dempster had not been raped, as a decent woman would have been-no, she had yielded because a man wanted her. The subject was not one that could be freely discussed even among intimates, but it was understood without saying that if women began to yield for such reasons as that, marriage and society would not last long. Any man who spoke up for Mrs Dempster probably believed in Free Love. Certainly he associated sex with pleasure, and that put him in a class with filthy thinkers like Cece Athelstan.”
“Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.”
“It felt as if we'd been to war together. Deep in a jungle, alone, I had relied on them, these strangers. They'd held me up in ways only people could. When it was over, an ending never felt like an ending, only an exhausted draw, we went our separate ways. Be we were bonded forever by the history of it, the simple fact they'd seen the raw side of me and me of them, a side no one, not even closest friends or family had ever seen before, or probably ever would.”
“Winners develop the habit of doing the thing losers don't like to do.”

Source : Tom Ward, Paul Gustavson, Ed Foreman (2013). “The Power of Living by Design”, p.33
“posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors.”
“Our lives are like the talents in the parable of the three stewards. It is something that has been given to us for the time being and we have the opportunity and privilege of doing our best with this precious gift.”

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