"Believing there's no God stops me from being solipsistic. I can read ideas from all different people from all different cultures. Without God, we can agree on reality, and I can keep learning where I'm wrong. We can all keep adjusting, so we can really communicate."

-- Penn Jillette

#Believe Quotes #Reality Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“As soon as we see our dreams betrayed we realize that the intensest joys of our life have nothing to do with reality, and we are consumed with regret for the time when they glowed within us. And in this succession of hopes and regrets our life slips by.”

Source : Natalia Ginzburg (2016). “The Little Virtues”, p.8, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
“Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir one's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work; remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die, but long after we are gone will be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency.”

Source : Commercial Club of Chicago, Daniel Hudson Burnham, Edward Herbert Bennett (1970). “Plan of Chicago”, Da Capo Pr
“I've just always been that kid that was like, "Look at me! Look at me!," and doing performances and skits. I'm also, as most artists are, a very sensitive person, so I need that outlet to release that. Art needs to be in my life, otherwise I can't function as a human being. I heard Madonna say, "Live it, breathe it, eat it." That's how I am with the artistic part of myself.”
“Discipline is the fuel of achievement.”
“I am perfectly happy to compromise whether it's with Democrats or anybody else, as long as we're reducing the size of government.”
“Legendary innovators like Franklin, Snow, and Darwin all possess some common intellectual qualitiesâ€”a certain quickness of mind, unbounded curiosityâ€”but they also share one other defining attribute. They have a lot of hobbies.”
“You can settle for reality, or you can go off, like a fool, and dream another dream.”
“An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.”

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