Humans value thought so highly that they believe it must be responsible for the entire universe coming into existence. This evaluation of thought is done with thought itself; it is a self referencing argument and is therefore invalid and quite arrogant.
- Cathbard
I thought the brain was the most amazing thing in the universe until I realised it was my brain that was telling me that
- Cathbard
The dichotomy between omniscience and free-will only exists because god is merely a fantasy believed by those that are terrified of their ignorance.
- Cathbard
An intelligent statement by a fool is still an intelligent statement.
A foolish statement by a genius is still a foolish statement.
- Cathbard
Relax, it's all just an mmorpg in the year 2112 called "Gates Didn't Go To Jail"
- Cathbard
Growing up is the process of reducing the time between emotional reaction and intellectual evaluation
- Cathbard
Emotions are alarms to be examined, not causes to be actioned
- Cathbard
The ethic of a "fair day's work for a fair day's pay" is a myth in a world where 10% of the people possess 90% of the wealth. The reality is "a fair day's work for a pittance".
- Cathbard
Modern fatherhood is a contract with responsibilities but no rights which reduces men to nothing more than a sperm bank with a wallet.
- Cathbard
The greatest flaw in democracy is it's reliance on politicians. It ensures that we are ruled by the worst people for the job.
Those who seek power are the last ones that should be granted it.
- Cathbard
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.
- Albert Einstein
People prefer any answer to none at all, even an incorrect one
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Women make the highs higher and the lows more frequent
- Friedrich Nietzsche
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Life has no meaning a priori. Before you come alive life is nothing;
it's up to you to give it meaning and value is nothing else but the meaning that you choose
- Jean-Paul Sartre
When the rich make war it's the poor that die
- Jean-Paul Sartre
An intellectual is somebody whose mind watches itself
- Albert Camus
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear
- Albert Camus
The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm
- Albert Camus
Those who lack courage will always find a philosophy to justify it
- Albert Camus
When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.
- Sinclair Lewis
Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it you would have good people
doing good things and evil people doing evil things.
But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
- Steven Weinberg
"One World, One web, One program" - Microsoft
"Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Führer" - Adolf Hitler
Control is controlled by it's need to control
- William S Burroughs
The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals.
Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime
that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.
Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What's there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws
that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted -- and you create a nation of
law-breakers -- and then you cash in on guilt.
Now that's the system...that's the game, and once you understand it, you'll be easier to deal with.
- Ayn Rand
Steal a little and they throw you in jail
Steal a lot and they make you a king.
- Bob Dylan
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished
unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
- Voltaire
Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.
- Karl Marx
Give a man a fish, he eats for a day. Teach a man to fish, he eats his whole life. Teach a village to fish, they depopulate the lake
- Matt Silberstein
It was never the object of patent laws to grant a monopoly for every trifling device, every shadow of a shade of an idea, which would naturally and spontaneously occur to any skilled mechanic or operator in the ordinary progress of manufacture. Such an indiscriminate creation of exclusive privileges tends rather to obstruct than to stimulate invention. It creates a class of speculative schemers who make it their business to watch the advancing wave of improvement, and gather its foam in the form of patented monopolies, which enable them to lay a heavy tax on the industry of the country, without contributing anything to the real advancement of the arts. It embarrasses the honest pursuit of business with fears and apprehensions of unknown liability lawsuits and vexatious accounting for profits made in good faith.
- U.S. Supreme Court, Atlantic Works vs. Brady, 1882
It is the height of bad manners to overdose in another man's home.
- Keith Richards
There is no difference between someone who eats too little and sees Heaven and someone who drinks too much and sees snakes.
- Bertrand Russell
After you've heard two eyewitness accounts of a motor accident, you begin to worry about history.
- J. McNab
If 50 million people believe a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing
- Anatole France
Once upon a time there was a police detective who was a Scientific Creationist. He used to solve his cases very quickly - by looking around for a few seconds and saying, " I don't understand this. God must have done it. Case closed."
- Thomas Kettenring
Fear was what first made gods in the world.
- Heraclitius
Belief gets in the way of learning.
- Robert A. Heinlein
Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurance of the improbable.
- H. L. Mencken
Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house.
- Robert A. Heinlein
Of what use is a philosopher who does not hurt anybody's feelings?
- Diogenes
Physics is not a religion. If it were, we'd have a much easier time raising money.
- Leon Lederman
Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.
- Keynes
Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.
- George Bernard Shaw
It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.
- Henry Ford
If only politicians and economists just talked about the things they fully understood - the silence would be wonderful.
- Kevin Goldstein-Jackson
Democracy is the worst system there is ...... except for all the others.
- Winston Churchill
If you think illegal drugs have never done any good, burn your record collection
- Bill Hicks
Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television. Choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers ... choose DIY and wondering who the fuck you are on Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch and watching mind-numbing, spirit crushing game shows, stuffing junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pishing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked up brats you spawned to replace yourself. Choose your future. Choose life ... But why would I want to do a thing like that?
- Mark Renton
Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.
- Ashley Montague
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
- Carl Sagan
Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.
- Henry Kissinger
You can't say civilization isn't advancing: In every war, they kill you in a new way.
- Will Rogers
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
- Groucho Marx
Before marriage, a man yearns for the woman he loves. After marriage, the "y" becomes silent.
- Dr Woody
Love is a device invented by bank managers to keep people overdrawn
- Arnold J Rimmer
Human heaven? Goodness me, humans don't go to heaven. No, somebody made that up to prevent you all from going nuts.
- Kryten
A cynic is what an optimist calls a realist
- Sir Humphrey Appleby
If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers.
- Thomas Pynchon
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
- Francis Bacon
When money speaks, the truth keeps silent.
- Russian proverb
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
- Arthur C Clarke
Forward he cried from the rear and the front rank died.
The generals watched as the lines on the map moved from side to side
- Roger Waters
Far away across the field, the tolling of the iron bell
Calls the faithful to their knees to hear the softly spoken magic spells
- Roger Waters
