Step aside from all thinking, and there is nowhere you can't go.
The prayer of the agnostic: "O God, if there is a God, save my soul if I have a soul. "
It is evident, indeed, that such a doctrine, taken by itself in a literal manner, had no future. The world, in continuing to exist, caused it to crumble. One generation of man at the most was the limit of its endurance. The faith of the first Christian generation is intelligible, but the faith of the second generation is no longer so. After the death of John, or of the last survivor, whoever he might be, of the group which had seen the master, the word of Jesus was convicted of falsehood.
As soon as sacrifice becomes a duty and necessity to mankind. I see no limit to the horizon which opens before him.
Good humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes us.
Blessed are the blind, for they know not enough to ask why.
Jesus , in some respects, was an anarchist, for he had no idea of civil government. That government seems to him purely and simply an abuse. A great social revolution, in which rank will be overturned, in which all authority in this world will be humiliated, was his dream.
All I ever wanted to do was play the drums; I felt good about myself when I played the drums. So I worked anywhere and everywhere I could lug my drums in.
My critique of democracy begins and ends with this point. Kids must be educated to disrespect authority or else democracy is a farce.
Among all the many great transitions that have marked the evolution of Western civilisation. . . there has been only one-the triumph of Christianity -that can be called in the fullest sense a "revolution": a truly massive and epochal revision of humanity's prevailing vision of reality, so pervasive in its influence and so vast in its consequences as to actually have created a new conception of the world, of history, of human nature, of time, and of the moral good.
It is true that a competitive market is not the whole of society. A great deal depends on the qualities of the population and the nation in how they organize the non-market aspects of society.