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Nominalist - Determinist - Hedonist - Iconoclast - Sceptic
Favorite quotes:
"The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog." - Mark Twain
"I know that I know nothing" - Socrates through Plato
"I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours." - Stephen Roberts
"Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance." - H. L. Mencken
"The most general survey shows us that the two foes of human happiness are pain and boredom. We may go further, and say that in the degree in which we are fortunate enough to get away from the one, we approach the other. Life presents, in fact, a more or less violent oscillation between the two." - Arthur Schopenhauer
"The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Do not assume that I have come to bring peace to the earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to turn A man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. A man’s enemies will be the members of his own household. Anyone who loves his father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; anyone who loves his son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me" - Jesus Christ (Matthew 10:35-37)
"Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." - Robert Openheimer, himself quoting Hindu scripture (Bhagavad Gita)
"That which does not kill us makes us stronger or handicapped" - Elli Yaffa
"There are no facts, only interpretations." - Friedrich Nietzsche
"A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything." - Friedrich Nietzsche
"You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself." - Alan W. Watts
"The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves." - Alan W. Watts
"I feel I am free but I know I'm not" - Emil Cioran
"Men are mistaken in what they believe themselves free in their opinion is simply because they are aware of their actions, and ignorant of the causes that determine them" - Baruch Spinoza