"Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it."
- Anonymous
"A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it."
- H.L. Mencken
"Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job."
- Douglas Adams
"Let's say that the consensus is that our species, being the higher primates, Homo Sapiens, has been on the planet for at least 100,000 years, maybe more. Francis Collins says maybe 100,000. Richard Da..."
- Christopher Hitchens
"I'm not saying she was lying to me, but she just acted so different before I got to know her, and if she really isn't like what she was at the beginning, I wish she could have just said so."
- Stephen Chbosky
"It is a healthy approach not to expect persons to turn out precisely how you would have wished."
- Criss Jami
"In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments. Those whom life does not cure, death will. The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and the reality even where we will not. Betw..."
- Cormac McCarthy
"Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world, which we have developed inside us as a result of biological and psychological necessit..."
- Sigmund Freud
"The best antidote to the furtive poison of anger, fear, anxiety, or any of our destructive, unwieldy passions, is just gratitude. And not the grandiose, boisterous or especially obvious kind. It is no..."
- Connie Kerbs
"I do not much trust the man who cares solely to inspire - he does not really inspire me - only the man who cares mostly to tell the truth, whatever that may do. For when the man who cares to tell the ..."