David Hume
Poets...though liars by profession, always endeavour to give an air of truth to their fictions.
A Treatise on Human Nature
Edmund Way Teale
It is morally as bad not to care whether a thing is true or not, so long as it makes you feel good, as it is not to care how you got your money as long as you have got it.
Circle of the Seasons
Denis Diderot
There are two sorts of laws, those of absolute equity and universality, and the bizarre ones which owe their autonomy only to blindness or to the force of circumstance. The latter merely cover the man who is breaking them with a passing disgrace, which time then transfers to the judges and the nations, on whom it remains forever.
Romantic Works
Thomas Aquinas
Therefore it is necessary to arrive at a prime mover, put in motion by no other; and this everyone understands to be God.
Summa Theologica
Carl Sagan
How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, 'This is better than we thought! The universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant. God must be even greater than we dreamed.' Instead they say, 'No, no, no! My god is a little god, and I want him to stay that way.'
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision Of The Human Future In Space
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