Awesome Quotes about Life
Awesome quotes about life from famous people, including Albert Einstein, Epicurus, and Richard Dawkins:
"Death is nothing to us, for when we exist, death is not yet present, and when death is present, then we do not exist." - Epicurus
"Darwinism teaches us to be wary of the easy assumption that design is the only alternative to chance, and to seek out graded ramps of slowly increasing complexity. Before Darwin, philosophers such as Hume understood that the improbability of life did not mean it had to be designed, but they couldn't imagine the alternative. After Darwin, we all should feel, deep in our bones, suspicious of the very idea of design. The illusion of design is a trap that has caught us before, and Darwin should have immunised us by raising our consciousness. Would that he had succeeded with all of us." - Richard Dawkins, from the God Delusion.
"The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it." - General H. Norman Schwarzkopf
"You think the people of this land exist to provide you with position. I think your position exists to provide those people with freedom." - Mel Gibson as William Wallace in Braveheart
"The only thing that hurts more than paying income tax is not having to pay income tax." - Thomas Robert Dewar- Journalist: "You have been working at least 15 hours a day, everyday for almost 50 years. Don't you think it's time for a vacation?' Gandhi replied, "I am always on vacation."
"We do not ask for what useful purpose the birds sing, for song is their pleasure since they were created for singing. Similarly, we ought not to ask why the human mind troubles to fathom the secrets of the heavens ... The diversity of the phenomena of Nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment." - Johannes Kepler
"Seeing a murder on television...will help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some." - Alfred Hitchcock,
"What lies beyond us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." - Emerson
"Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth." - Pablo Picasso
"Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble." - Job
"A man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth." - Luke
"Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets." - Golden Rule, Matthew
"If you refuse to obey all the terms of this law that are written in this book ... then the LORD will overwhelm both you and your children with indescribable plagues." - Deuteronomy
"Thinking is the hardest kind of work, that's why few indulge in it."
"Show me a cultural relativist at thirty thousand feet and I'll show you a hypocrite. Airplanes are built according to scientific principals and they work. They stay aloft and they get you to a chosen destination. Airplanes built to tribal or mythological specifications such as the dummy planes of the Cargo cults in jungle clearings or the bees-waxed wings of Icaraus don't." - Richard Dawkins
"If I read a book that cost me $20 and I get one good idea, I’ve gotten one of the greatest bargains of all time." - Tom Peters "The difference between where you are today and where you’ll be five years from now will be found in the quality of books you’ve read." - Jim Rohn"The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on." - Steve Jobs
"Darwinism teaches us to be wary of the easy assumption that design is the only alternative to chance, and to seek out graded ramps of slowly increasing complexity. Before Darwin, philosophers such as Hume understood that the improbability of life did not mean it had to be designed, but they couldn't imagine the alternative. After Darwin, we all should feel, deep in our bones, suspicious of the very idea of design. The illusion of design is a trap that has caught us before, and Darwin should have immunised us by raising our consciousness. Would that he had succeeded with all of us." - Richard Dawkins, from the God Delusion.
"People are eternally divided into two classes, the believer, builder, and praiser, and the unbeliever, destroyer and critic." - John Ruskin
