Jean de La Bruyère As quoted in Selected Thoughts from the French: XV Century-XX Century, with English Translations (1913), pp. 132-133, by James Raymond Solly. This may conceivably be a misattribution, because as yet no definite citation of a specific work by La Bruyère has been located, and the statement is very similar to one known [...]
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Maybe)
I’ve also learned that most people do not respond to reasoned, well-articulated arguments (contrary to what I was taught in college). When attempting to persuade others, good rhetoric is sadly often more effective than good debate. Realizing this also opened my eyes to the staggering amount of manipulative maneuvering at play in the political world, [...]
To quote Salman Khan of the Khan Academy on religion: If you believe in trying to make the best of the finite number of years we have on this planet (while not making it any worse for anyone else), think that pride and self-righteousness are the cause of most conflict and negativity, and are humbled [...]
Andrew Schwartzmeyer
“Enjoy the present, the past will always be there, and the future will come, but enjoy your life for now not for what has happened or what will happen. The past will only make you wish something else would have happened, and the future will leave you hanging and will make you anxious, but what [...]
Karl Marx Original German: “Die Religion … ist das Opium des Volkes.” Often quoted as In context from Karl Marx’s A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right: Religion is, indeed, the self-consciousness and self-esteem of man who has either not yet won through to himself, or has already lost himself again. But [...]
Kerry Thornley in the introduction to the Principia Discordia 5th Ed.
Supposedly said by Voltaire who was in fact François-Marie Arouet
Ben Bridges Shout out to you Ben, Happy Birthday!