Daily quotes

[Creed of Heresy]

The various forms of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by people to be equally true, by the philosopher equally false, and by the magistrate as equally useful.

-Edward Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

[Minimalist]

"Again, if God, like Jupiter in the comedy, should, on awaking from a lengthened slumber, desire to rescue the human race from evil, why did He send this Spirit of which you speak into one corner (of the earth)? He ought to have breathed it alike into many bodies, and have sent them out into all the world. Now the comic poet, to cause laughter in the theatre, wrote that Jupiter, after awakening, despatched Mercury to the Athenians and Lacedaemonians; but do not you think that you have made the Son of God more ridiculous in sending Him to the Jews?"...

Celsus, 2d century dissing xtians

[Tea Earl Grey Hot]

The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes

What good fortune for governments that the people do not think.

Anyone can deal with victory. Only the mighty can bear defeat.

The art of reading consists in remembering the essentials and forgetting non essentials.

[Minimalist]

“The Gods have proclaimed Christ to have been most pious, but the Christians are a confused and vicious sect.”
― Porphyry

[Creed of Heresy]

“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”

-Elie Wiesel

[Cyberman]

How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, “This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant?” Instead they say, “No, no, no! My god is a little god, and I want him to stay that way.” A religion, old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the Universe as revealed by modern science might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths.

-- Carl Sagan

[Silver]

“What gods are there, what gods have there ever been, that were not from man’s imagination?”
— Joseph Campbell

[Creed of Heresy]

"I think they ought to be treated equally. Period."

-Jimmy Carter, in 2002, responding to a question he was asked by lesbian columnist Deb Price on whether gay couples should receive equal benefits or not.

[The Grand Nudger]

I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly under-polluted. - Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic wastes to Third World countries - firmly denied, of course-.

[Creed of Heresy]

"I've always thought..."

Biggest lie he ever told, clearly.