Posted by: Davide Castellani
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Truth and lies)
There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
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There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is in such an abundance, is the fundamental brick of the universe. I say that in the universe there is more stupidity than hydrogen.
Maybe only silence really exists.
Adam was but human-- this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent.
Whatever destroys liberty isn't love. It must be something else, for love and liberty are great friends, two wings on the same dove.
Everytime you should see love in conflict with you liberty, it means you're doing something else in the name of love.
What is truth?-Inertia; that hypothesis which gives rise to contentment; smallest expenditure of spiritual force.
Not evil. Moronic, which isn't quite the same thing. Evil presupposes a moral decision, intention, and some forethought. A moron or a lout, however, doesn't stop to think or reason. He acts on instinct, like a stable animal, convinced he's doing good, that he's always right, and sanctimoniously proud to go around f***ing up ... anyone he perceives to be different from himself, be it because of skin color, creed, language, nationality, or ... leisure habits. What the world needs is more thoroughly evil people and fewer borderline pigheads.
The thruth will set you free.
The African is my brother -- but he is my younger brother by several centuries.
It takes two to speak truth, one to speak and another to hear.