Friday, August 03, 2007
 

(3089/898) Looking at religion

1037) A cult is a religion with no political power.
Tom Wolfe
In Our Time (1980) [CQ]
posted by Kevin Harris [UAQ] (6/16/95)

1038) A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.
James Feibleman
Understanding Philosophy (1973)
quoted in The Cassell Dictionary of Cynical Quotations
Jonathon Green, ed. [PAQ]
posted by Kevin Harris [UAQ] (6/16/95)
[Note: cf. #393 Weinreich & #2420 Wilde.]
1039) Nothing more clearly show how little God esteems his gift to men of wealth, money, position and other worldly goods, than the way he distributes these, and the sort of men who are most amply provided with them.
Jean de la Bruyere
"Of Worldly Goods" in
Characters (1688) [CQ]
posted by Kevin Harris [UAQ] (6/16/95)
[Note: Often misquoted and misattributed to Dorothy Parker.]
1040) Truth, in the matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.
Oscar Wilde
The Critic as Artist (1891)
posted by Kevin Harris [UAQ] (6/16/95)

1041) "Faith" means not wanting to know what is true.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
The Antichrist (1888)[WQ]
posted by Kevin Harris [UAQ] (6/16/95)

1042) A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
The Antichrist (1888)
quoted in The Cassell Dictionary of Cynical Quotations
Jonathon Green, ed. [PAQ]
posted by Kevin Harris [UAQ] (6/16/95)
[Note: Possibly a simplification of Nietzsche's actual words (as translated):

That faith makes blessed under certain circumstances, that blessedness does not make of a fixed idea a true idea, that faith moves no mountains but puts mountains where there are none: a quick walk through a madhouse enlightens one sufficiently about this. [WQ]]
1043) I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (attributed)
posted by Kevin Harris [UAQ] (6/16/95)

1044) The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.
Sir Richard F. Burton
"Terminal Essay: Social Conditions"
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night [WQ]
posted by Kevin Harris [UAQ] (6/16/95)

1045) Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes & wishes he was certain of.
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
Notebooks & Journals v.2: 1877-1883 (1975) [QMT]
posted by Kevin Harris [UAQ] (6/16/95)

1046) Christian, n. One who follows the teachings of Christ insofar as they are not inconsistent with a life of sin.
Ambrose Bierce
The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
posted by Kevin Harris [UAQ] (6/16/95)

1047) Faith, n. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
Ambrose Bierce
The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
posted by Kevin Harris [UAQ] (6/16/95)

1048) Scriptures, n. The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.
Ambrose Bierce
The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
posted by Kevin Harris [UAQ] (6/16/95)

1049) We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
H.L. Mencken
Minority Report: H.L. Mencken's Notebooks (1956) [WQ]
posted by Kevin Harris [UAQ] (6/16/95)

1050) Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.
Robert Heinlein
Time Enough for Love (1973) [WQ]
posted by Kevin Harris [UAQ] (6/16/95)

1051) There are scores of thousands of human insects who are ready at a moment's notice to reveal the will of God on every possible subject.
George Bernard Shaw
"The Sin of Athanasius"
Treatise on Parents and Children (1910)
posted by Kevin Harris [UAQ] (6/16/95)
[Note: A fuller quotation:

We are overrun with Popes. From curates and governesses, who may claim a sort of professional standing, to parents and uncles and nurserymaids and school teachers and wiseacres generally, there are scores of thousands of human insects groping through our darkness by the feeble phosphorescence of their own tails, yet ready at a moment's notice to reveal the will of God on every possible subject; to explain how and why the universe was made (in my youth they added the exact date) and the circumstances under which it will cease to exist; to lay down precise rules of right and wrong conduct; to discriminate infallibly between virtuous and vicious character; and all this with such certainty that they are prepared to visit all the rigors of the law, and all the ruinous penalties of social ostracism on people, however harmless their actions maybe who venture to laugh at their monstrous conceit or to pay their assumptions the extravagant compliment of criticizing them.]
1052) Going to church doesn't make you a Christian anymore than going to a garage makes you a car.
unknown
(variously attributed to Garrison Keillor
and Laurence J. Peter)
posted by Kevin Harris [UAQ] (6/16/95)

1053) I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them.
Galileo Galilei
letter to Christina of Tuscany
quoted by Perry McAdow Rogers in
Aspects of Western Civilization: problems and sources in history (1988) [WQ]
posted by Kevin Harris [UAQ] (6/16/95)

1054) I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world, and do not find in our particular superstition [Christianity] one redeeming feature. They are all alike founded on fables and mythology.
Thomas Jefferson
letter to Dr. Woods (undated)
quoted by John E. Remsburg in
Six Historic Americans: Thomas Jefferson
citing Franklin Steiner
"Thomas Jefferson, Freethinker" in
Religious Beliefs of Our Presidents (1936) [PAQ]
posted by Kevin Harris [UAQ] (6/16/95)

Sources

[CQ] - Columbia Dictionary of Quotations (1993)
[PAQ] - Postive Atheism's Big List of Quotations
[QMT] - The Quotable Mark Twain (1998), R. Kent Rasmussen, ed.
[UAQ] - Usenet alt.quotations newsgroup
[WQ] - Wikiquote



Note: "3089/898" is the designation I've given to the project of posting all my collected quotes, excerpts and ideas (3089 of them) in the remaining days of the Bush administration (of which there were 898 left when I began).

As of today, there are 535 days remaining in the administration of the worst American President ever.

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A question for creationists

Wouldn't it have been more intelligent to design land animals like us to be able to drink either salt water or fresh water, rather than to require only sometimes scarce fresh water as the basis for life? We're surrounded by all this water in the oceans, and we can't make use of it for most purposes without extreme difficulty -- that doesn't seem all that intelligent as a design choice.

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Wednesday, August 01, 2007
 

Friday Photography: Island Time


click to enlarge
Daryl Samuel

Location: Road Town,
Tortola, British Virgin Islands

Previous: Photos posted in 2006 / 2007: Pagoda / Ferry / Sand Tracks / General Store / Taverna Tables / Finger Piano / Bridge at Sunset / Snowfall in Cambridge / Boats / Grandma in Motion / Museum Silhouette / Brooklyn Bridge / Seascape / City Hall / Santa Fe Hotel / Lunch Break / Low Rider / Giant Crab Invades Boston! / East Meets West / Building Reflections / Flatiron Spring / Hands With Glasses / Fishing Net / Steps / Oil and Vinegar / Gas Station / Brooklyn Bridge in Sepia / Windmill on the Paralia / Santa Fe Art

Note: The damage seen at the side of this photograph is on the original negative. Rather than crop the image radically, I decided to post it as is. - Ed Fitzgerald

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Tuesday, July 31, 2007
 

(3089/898) Einstein speaks


1030) I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
Albert Einstein
interview given on the ship
Belgenland (12/1930) [ODQ]
in the Einstein Archive (36-570)
as from 1945-1946 [QE]

posted by Kevin Harris [UAQ] (6/16/95)

1031) Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down by the mind before you reach eighteen.
Albert Einstein
quoted by Eric Temple Bell in
Mathematics, Queen and Servant of the Sciences
(1952) [WQ]; not listed in [QE]
variant version posted by Kevin Harris [UAQ] (6/16/95)
[Note: cf. #740]
1032) Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
Albert Einstein
letter to California student E. Holzapfel (3/1951)
quoted by Helen Dukas and Banesh Hoffman in
Albert Einstein, the Human Side (1979) [QE]
Einstein Archive 59-1013
posted by Kevin Harris [UAQ] (6/16/95)

1033) The man who is thoroughly convinced of the universal operation of the law of causation cannot for a moment entertain the idea of a being who interferes in the course of events — provided, of course, that he takes the hypothesis of causality really seriously. He has no use for the religion of fear and equally little for social or moral religion. A God who rewards and punishes is inconceivable to him for the simple reason that a man's actions are determined by necessity, external and internal, so that in God's eyes he cannot be responsible, any more than an inanimate object is responsible for the motions it undergoes. Science has therefore been charged with undermining morality, but the charge is unjust. A man's ethical behavior should be based effectively on sympathy, education, and social relationships; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
Albert Einstein
"Religion and Science"
New York Times Magazine (11/9/1930) [WQ]
reprinted in Ideas and Opinions (1954) [QE]
posted in part by Kevin Harris [UAQ] (6/16/95)

1034) The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
Albert Einstein
"Science, Philosophy, and Religion" (1940)
Science, Philosophy and Religion, A Symposium (1941)
reprinted in Ideas and Opinions (1954)
as "Science and Religion" [QE]
Einstein Archive 28-523
posted by Kevin Harris [UAQ] (6/16/95)

1035) We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
Albert Einstein (attributed)
not listed in [QE]
posted by Kevin Harris [UAQ] (6/16/95)

1036) The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
Albert Einstein (attributed)
not listed in [QE]
posted by Kevin Harris [UAQ] (6/16/95)
[Note: While the thought has value, this quote seems unlikely to be legitimate. As Wikiquote says, "Einstein is one of those major iconic figures to whom many statements become attributed; unsourced attributions to him should usually be treated with some skepticism, and often a great deal of it." Other figures who attract attributions like magnets: Mark Twain, H.L. Mencken and Kurt Vonnegut. See #1662.]
Sources

[QE] - The New Quotable Einstein (2005), Alice Calaprice, ed.
[ODQ] - Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, 4th edition (1992)
[UAQ] - Usenet alt.quotations newsgroup
[WQ] - Wikiquote



Note: "3089/898" is the designation I've given to the project of posting all my collected quotes, excerpts and ideas (3089 of them) in the remaining days of the Bush administration (of which there were 898 left when I began).

As of today, there are 538 days remaining in the administration of the worst American President ever.

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Monday, July 30, 2007
 

(3089/898) For the young folks

1029) People often ask me if I have any [...] words of advice for young people. Well, here are a few simple admonitions for young and old:
  • Never interfere in a boy-girl fight.


  • Beware of whores who say they don't want money. The hell they don't. What they mean is: they want more money. Much more.


  • If you are doing business with a religious sonofabitch: get it in writing. His word isn't worth shit - not with the Good Lord telling him how to fuck you on the deal.


  • Avoid "fuck-ups." We all know the type. Everything they have anything to do with - no matter how good it sounds - turns into a complete disaster.


  • Do not offer sympathy to the mentally ill. Tell them firmly: "I am not paid to listen to this drivel. You are a terminal fool."
William S. Burroughs
"Words of Advice for Young People"
Spare Ass Annie and Other Tales (CD, 1993)
posted by Michael Fuchs [IQM] (6/14/95)
Sources

[IQM] - Internet Quotations mailing list



Note: "3089/898" is the designation I've given to the project of posting all my collected quotes, excerpts and ideas (3089 of them) in the remaining days of the Bush administration (of which there were 898 left when I began).

As of today, there are 539 days remaining in the administration of the worst American President ever.

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Sunday, July 29, 2007
 

Friday Photography: Santa Fe Art


click to enlarge
Daryl Samuel

Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico

Previous: Photos posted in 2006 / 2007: Pagoda / Ferry / Sand Tracks / General Store / Taverna Tables / Finger Piano / Bridge at Sunset / Snowfall in Cambridge / Boats / Grandma in Motion / Museum Silhouette / Brooklyn Bridge / Seascape / City Hall / Santa Fe Hotel / Lunch Break / Low Rider / Giant Crab Invades Boston! / East Meets West / Building Reflections / Flatiron Spring / Hands With Glasses / Fishing Net / Steps / Oil and Vinegar / Gas Station / Brooklyn Bridge in Sepia / Windmill on the Paralia

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(3089/898) Six Ways to Desecrate the Flag

1021) Six Ways To Desecrate The Flag:
  • Militias armed to the teeth playing soldier in the woods.

  • Congress gutting environmental laws, selling out to lobbyists.

  • Pretending that Constitutional amendments are a substitute for leadership.

  • Having two legal systems ... one for the rich, one for the poor.

  • Sacrificing civil liberties in the name of fighting crime.

  • Surreptitiously trying to establish Christianity as the state religion.
Don Wright
editorial cartoon in the Palm Beach Post,
reprinted in the Sunday NY Times Week in Review (6/18/95)


1022) America is a country where they have freedom of speech but everyone says the same thing.
Alexis de Tocqueville
Democracy in America (1835)
posted by Kevin Harris [UAQ] (6/16/95)


1023) In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
Peter Ustinov (attributed)
posted by Kevin Harris [UAQ] (6/16/95)


1024) Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings.
George Will
in International Herald Tribune (5/7/90) [CQ]
posted by Kevin Harris [UAQ] (6/16/95)


1025) It's hard to decide if TV makes morons out of everyone or if it mirrors Americans who really are morons to begin with.
Martin Mull (attributed)
posted by Kevin Harris [UAQ] (6/16/95)


1026) The censors say they're protecting the family unit in America, when the reality is, if you suck a tit, you're an X, but if you cut it off with a sword, you're a PG.
Jack Nicholson (attributed)
posted by Kevin Harris [UAQ] (6/16/95)


1027) In America sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it is a fact.
Marlene Dietrich (attributed)
posted by Kevin Harris [UAQ] (6/16/95)


1028) America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true; and the opposite is probably equally true.
James T. Farrell
"Introduction" to
Prejudices: A Selection by H.L. Mencken
posted by JR3000@aol.com [IQM] (6/14/95)


Sources

[CQ] - Columbia Dictionary of Quotations (1993)
[IQM] - Internet Quotations mailing list
[UAQ] - Usenet alt.quotations newsgroup



Note: "3089/898" is the designation I've given to the project of posting all my collected quotes, excerpts and ideas (3089 of them) in the remaining days of the Bush administration (of which there were 898 left when I began).

As of today, there are 540 days remaining in the administration of the worst American President ever.

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