Great quotes and monologues

[Este]

^I love that man. Rare to find words that are both pretty and ring true.

[Frank]

"When I say 'God,' it is poetry and not theology. Nothing any theologian ever wrote about God has helped me much, but everything that poets have written about flowers, and birds, and skies, and seas, and the saviors of the race, and God -- whoever that may be -- has at one time or another reached my soul. The theologians gather dust upon the shelves of my library, but the poets are stained with my fingers and blotted with my tears."

- Rev. John Haynes Holmes, Beacon Song and Service Book (1935)

[Mak2]

"The essence of the Liberal outlook lies not in what opinions are held, but in how they are held: instead of being held dogmatically, they are held tentatively, and with a consciousness that new evidence may at any moment lead to their abandonment."

- Bertrand Russell

[Maddy]

And when theists like yourself presume to have filled a gap in our scientific knowledge with god they inevitably fail to realize that they have explained it away without explaining it at all. When confronted with a question of how something came into being they settle with presuming to know who did it rather than dealing with the actual fucking question of how.

You fill the gap with a mixture of ignorance and hubris. It is not something to be proud of.

[KSti]

For those who remember Rwanda and the racist insults hurled by Mr. Bashir’s janjaweed militias during their brutal attacks in Darfur, his vile words should be a wake-up call. Indeed, without some moral common ground, “negotiations” are merely a polite way of acquiescing to evil, especially when one’s interlocutors are pathologically incapable of respecting their own word.

Gerad Prunier in yesterday's New York Times

[Frank]

"But we were born of risen apes, not fallen angels, and the apes were armed killers besides. And so what shall we wonder at? Our murders and massacres and missiles, and our irreconcilable regiments? Or our treaties whatever they may be worth; our symphonies however seldom they may be played; our peaceful acres, however frequently they may be converted into battlefields; our dreams however rarely they may be accomplished. The miracle of man is not how far he has sunk but how magnificently he has risen. We are known among the stars by our poems, not our corpses."

― Robert Ardrey

[Frank]

"You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, 'Look at that, you son of a bitch!'"

— Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 astronaut, People magazine, 8 April 1974

[Lapsed Lurker]

^ Considering the guy went on to sell shit like faith healing and universal consciousness, that quote doesn't quite thrill me, mate.

I'm feeling this lately-

“You always feel like you are the only one in the world, like everyone else is crazy for each other, but it's not true. Generally, people don't like each other very much. And that goes for friends, too. ”
― Miranda July

[Bug Snot]

I'm feeling this lately-

“You always feel like you are the only one in the world, like everyone else is crazy for each other, but it's not true. Generally, people don't like each other very much. And that goes for friends, too. ”
― Miranda July

That's beautiful. I just wanted to tell you all something. Fuck you bitches. That is all.

[Lapsed Lurker]

"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months." - Oscar Wilde