-- Upanishads

What the superior man seeks is in himself. What the mean man seeks is in others.

-- Confucius

We know nothing of tomorrow; our business is to be good and happy today.

-- Sydney Smith

It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.

-- Mary Wollstonecraft

Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.

-- William Pitt II

Men will never be free till the last politician is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.

-- Denis Diderot

No lie you can speak or act but it will come, after longer or shorter circulation, like a bill drawn on Nature's Reality, and be presented there for payment.

-- Thomas Carlyle

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

-- Aristotle

Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.

-- Demosthenes

Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain.

-- Johann Schiller

It is impossible to live pleasurably without living wisely, well, and justly; and impossible to live wisely, well, and justly without living pleasurably....Pleasure is the beginning and end of living happily.

-- Epicurus

When Sages appeared, crawling for charity and limping with duty, doubt and confusion entered men's minds....Destruction of The Way and virtue in order to introduce charity and duty--this is the error of the Sages.

-- Chuang-tzu

Have confidence in the truth, altho' you may not be able to comprehend it, altho' you may suppose its sweetness to be bitter, altho' you may shrink from it at first. Trust in the Truth....Have faith in the Truth and live it.

-- Buddha

If triangles were religious -- god would be three-sided.

-- medieval French proverb

He harms himself who does harm to another; the evil plan is most harmful to the planner....Do not seek evil gains; evil gains are the equivalent of disaster.

-- Hesiod

As a general rule, people, even the wicked, are much more naive and simple-hearted than we suppose. And we ourselves are, too.

-- Dostoevski

There can be no agreement between men and lions. Wolves and lambs are never in accord. Rather, they hate each other, out and out, thru and thru.

-- Homer

The Christian god is a three-headed monster, cruel, vengeful and capricious. If one wishes to know more of this raging, three-headed beast-like god, one only needs to look at the caliber of people who say they serve him. They are always of two classes: fools and hypocrites.

-- Thomas Jefferson

The idea of god implies the abdication of human reason and justice; it is the most decisive negation of human liberty and necessarily ends in the enslavement of mankind both in theory and practice. He who desires to worship god must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.

-- Mikhail Bakunin

When the philosopher's argument becomes tedious, complicated, and opaque, it is usually a sign that he is attempting to prove as true to the intellect what is plainly false to common sense.

-- Edward Abbey

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

-- Albert Einstein

Not one person in a thousand has the strength or the goodness of heart to be an atheist.

-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

If anyone can show me, and prove to me, that I am wrong in thought or deed, I will gladly change. I seek the truth, which never yet hurt anybody. It is only persistence in self-delusion and ignorance which does harm.

-- Marcus Aurelius

Happiness is the meaning and purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

-- Aristotle