All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, by Aldous Huxley

All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings,
by Aldous Huxley

Experience is not what happens to a man.
It is what a man does with what happens to him.
- Aldous Huxley

We are all atheists about most of the gods
that societies have ever believed in.
Some of us just go one god further.
- Richard Dawkins

Computers are like Old Testament gods;
lots of rules and no mercy.
- Joseph Campbell

I contend that we are both atheists.
I just believe in one fewer god than you do.
When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods,
you will understand why I dismiss yours.
- Stephen Roberts

Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil,
no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads.
This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world.
The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings.
- Soren Kierkegaard

To a very young child, mommy and daddy are gods.
We spend our lives looking to regain
that sense of being cared for and protected.
Thus religion.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I want to know all Gods thoughts;
all the rest are just details.
- Albert Einstein

I do not concern myself with gods and spirits
either good or evil, nor do I serve any.
- Lao Tzu

Whoever undertakes to set himself up
as a judge of Truth and Knowledge
is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
- Albert Einstein

It does me no injury for my neighbor to say
there are twenty gods or no God.
- Thomas Jefferson

Let us be silent, that we may
hear the whispers of the gods.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

When men destroy their old gods,
they will find new ones to take their place.
- Pearl S. Buck

The function of muscle is to pull and not to push,
except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.
- Leonardo da Vinci

My experience has been that work is
almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish.
Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another,
but let him work diligently and build one for himself,
thus by example assuring that his own
shall be safe from violence when built.
- Abraham Lincoln

Whenever I date a guy, I think,
"Is this the man I want my children
to spend their weekends with?"
- Rita Rudner

Marriages don't last. When I meet a guy,
the first question I ask myself is:
is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
- Rita Rudner

I'm sure we all agree that we ought to love one another
and I know there are people in the world
that do not love their fellow human beings
and I HATE people like that.
- Tom Lehrer

For those who do not think,
it is best at least to rearrange
their prejudices once in a while.
- Luther Burbank

The essence of all religions is one.
Only their approaches are different.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
- Leonardo da Vinci

I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack
that life is extinct on other planets
because their scientists were more advanced than ours.
- John F. Kennedy

People living their lives for you on TV;
They say they're better than you, and you agree.
- Jewel

Most of what we call management consists of
making it difficult for people to get their work done.
- Peter F. Drucker

It has always been a mystery to me
how men can feel themselves honored
by the humiliation of their fellow beings.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

People who want to share their religious views with you
almost never want you to share yours with them.
- Dave Barry

It is an interesting question how far men
would retain their relative rank
if they were divested of their clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau

I choose my friends for their good looks,
my acquaintances for their good characters,
and my enemies for their intellects.
A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde

No one was ever named "Hero" for following the crowd.
Heroes set their own course.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president,
but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.
- John F. Kennedy

The future belongs to those
who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man,
and I hate people like that!
- Tom Lehrer

The physician can bury his mistakes,
but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines -
so they should go as far as possible from home
to build their first buildings.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

Most people's historical perspective
begins with the day of their birth.
- Rush Limbaugh

Let parents bequeath to their children
not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
- Plato

I cannot persuade myself that a
beneficent and omnipotent God
would have designedly created parasitic wasps
with the express intention of their feeding
within the living bodies of caterpillars.
- Charles Darwin

Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations.
I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty,
believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
- Louisa May Alcott

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity
opinions which differ from
the prejudices of their social environment.
Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
- Albert Einstein

Those that want friends to open themselves unto
are cannibals of their own hearts.
- Francis Bacon

The common denominator of our heroes
is that each set their own course.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap
whence everyone must take an equal portion,
most people would be contented to take their own and depart.
- Socrates

Heroes act in spite of their fear,
while the rest of us act because of our fear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Alas for those that never sing,
But die with all their music in them!
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

It takes time to persuade men to do even
what is for their own good.
- Thomas Jefferson

Everyone believes that their beliefs are the right ones -
that is why they are called beliefs.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart,
don't know how to laugh either
- Golda Meir

I hear many people talk about their longing for a balanced life.
What I think they are really expressing
is a desire for a life with less pressure.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men
who walked through the huts comforting others,
giving away their last piece of bread...
They offer sufficient proof that everything
can be taken from a man but one thing:
to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,
to choose one's own way.
- Viktor E. Frankl

Careers and relationships also have their cycles
of birth, growth, and death -
to be followed by rebirth and the renewal of the cycle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
- William Shakespeare

Few is the number of those
who think with their own mind
and feel with their own heart.
- Albert Einstein

People will do anything, no matter how absurd,
to avoid facing their own souls.
- Carl Jung

Nothing others do is because of you.
What others say and do is a projection of their own reality.
- don Miguel Ruiz

You know you love someone when you know
you want them to be happy,
even if their happiness means
that you are not a part of it.
- Anonymous

Keep your attention focused entirely
on what is truly your own concern,
and be clear that what belongs to others
is their business and none of yours.
- Epictetus

In the arena of human life,
the honors and rewards fall to those
who show their good qualities in action.
- Aristotle

Those who have come here to hate should leave now;
for in their hate, they only betray themselves.
- Terry Goodkind

Do not save your loving speeches
For your friends till they are dead;
Do not write them on their tombstones,
Speak them rather now instead.
- Anna Cummins

Few are those who see with their own eyes
and feel with their own hearts.
- Albert Einstein

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