Quotes of the day, July 10

  • New York was the only really hostile city. Perhaps there is a certain element of the lumpen literati that is so dogmatically atheist and materialist and Earth-bound that it finds the grandeur of space and the myriad mysteries of cosmic intelligence anathema.
    Stanley Kubrick
    Stanley Kubrick
  • May 24

  • I never let the facts get in the way of the truth!
    Farley Mowat
    Farley Mowat
  • May 23

  • But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth.
  • May 22

  • When ignorant people see someone who is dead, they are disgusted and horrified, even thought they too will be dead some day. I thought to myself: I don't want to be like the ignorant people. After then, I couldn't feel the usual intoxication with life anymore.
    Gautama Buddha
    Gautama Buddha
  • May 21

  • I just give lip service to being the greatest. He was the greatest.
    Muhammad Ali
    Muhammad Ali
  • May 20

  • So many things were testing his faith. There was the Bible, of course, but the Bible was a book, and so were Bleak House, Treasure Island, Ethan Frome and The Last of the Mohicans. Did it then seem probable, as he had once overheard Dunbar ask, that the answers to riddles of creation would be supplied by people too ignorant to understand the mechanics of rainfall? Had Almighty God, in all His infinite wisdom, really been afraid that men six thousand years ago would succeed in building a tower to heaven?
    Joseph Heller
    Joseph Heller
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