Another small selection of amusing or enlightening quotes encountered recently.
Why do we spend billions of pounds searching for life on other planets, yet we cannot preserve the life on the one we live?
[Seen on Facebook]
If you don’t like gay marriage, blame straight people: they’re the ones who keep having gay babies.
The time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.
[Leonardo da Vinci]
It’s a shame to waste [the uniqueness that is you], by doing what someone else has done.
[Joseph Campbell]
There is a goal but no way; what we call the way is mere wavering.
[Frank Kafka]
A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.
[Daniel Webster]
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
[Lao Tzu]
You can’t have a light without a dark to stick it in.
[Arlo Guthrie]
Recently, someone asked me if I believed in astrology. He seemed somewhat puzzled when I explained that the reason I don’t is because I’m a Gemini.
[Raymond M Smullyan, Five Thousand BC and Other Philosophical Fantasies]
At all costs, the Christian must convince the heathen and the atheist that God exists, in order to save his soul. At all costs, the atheist must convince the Christian that the belief in God is but a childish and primitive superstition, doing enormous harm to the cause of true social progress. And so they battle and storm and bang away at each other. Meanwhile, the Taoist Sage sits quietly by the stream, perhaps with a book of poems, a cup of wine, and some painting materials, enjoying the Tao to his heart’s content, without ever worrying whether or not Tao exists. The Sage has no need to affirm the Tao; he is far too busy enjoying it!
[Raymond M Smullyan, The Tao Is Silent]
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
[Mahatma Gandhi]