A writer of fiction is really... a congenital liar who invents from his own knowledge or that of other men.Ernest Hemingway
Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It's a sort of crime against childhood.Richard Dawkins
A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.Salman Rushdie
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.Friedrich Nietzsche
It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.Virginia Woolf
Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute.Dalai Lama
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.Richard Feynman
I believe it is universally understood and acknowledged that all men will ever act correctly, unless they have a motive to do otherwise.Abraham Lincoln
I know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence. Everything that surrounds us- everything that exists - proves that there are infinite laws behind it. There can be no denying this fact. It is mathematical in its precision.Thomas Edison
