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God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Of course, there is no conceivable way of getting by reason from the proposition "I am losing interest in this" to the proposition "This is false.
- CS Lewis
Wen I die, my money is not gonna come with me. My movies will live on for people to judge what I was as a person. I just want to stay curious and keep smiling like the joker
- Heath Ledger
If Christianity is not scientific, and Science is not of God, then there is no invariable law, and truth becomes an accident.
- Mary Baker Eddy
It is love, and not German philosophy, that is the true explanation of the world, whatever may be the explanation of the next.
- Oscar Wilde
I'm basically a 'do unto others' type person. I don't have any religious feelings because I'm an atheist, but I live my life like there's a God. And if there was he'd probably love me.
- Ricky Gervais
The ethic of Reverence for Life is the ethic of Love widened into universality.
- Albert Schweitzer
Reason can tell how love affects us, but cannot tell what love is.
- Henry Ward Beecher
We are dominated on this planet by a fear-based rather than a love-based thought system.
- Marianne Williamson
Not evil. Not any more evil than the colored trees are good.Evil and good reside in the heart, not in trees and water.
- Ted Dekker
Actually, if you think about it, everything is really no more than idea. The past is nothing more than a memory, which is one kind of idea. The future is still a hope, another kind of idea. The present is fleeting and becomes a memory before you can put your hands on it. All ideas.
- Ted Dekker
In passing, we should note this curious mark of our own age: the only absolute allowed is the absolute insistence that there is no absolute.
- Francis Schaeffer