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I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right. - Author object (13)

Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth. - Author object (13)

God did not create evil. Just as darkness is the absence of light, evil is the absence of God. - Author object (13)

It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure. - Author object (13)

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts. - Author object (13)

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough. - Author object (13)

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once. - Author object (13)

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. - Author object (13)

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater. - Author object (13)

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible. - Author object (13)

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. - Author object (13)

A ship is always safe at the shore - but that is NOT what it is built for. - Author object (13)

You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created. - Author object (13)

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship. - Author object (13)

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. - Author object (13)

The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax. - Author object (13)

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms. - Author object (13)

I want to know God's thoughts - the rest are mere details. - Author object (13)

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed. - Author object (13)

Our task must be to free ourselves... by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and it's beauty. - Author object (13)