Inspirational quotes for rationalists.

[Elixir]

Always liked this one for its brutal truth:

 

[Cheerful Charlie]

Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know.

Grouch Marx

 

[ZiprHead]

 

[Cheerful Charlie]

Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before".

- Dwight Eisenhower

 

[Atheos]

Indifference will be the downfall of mankind, but who cares?

 

[4321lynx]

Indifference will be the downfall of mankind, but who cares?

Hermit hoar, in solemn cell
Wearing out life's evening grey;
Strike thy bosom, Sage, and tell
What is bliss, and which the way.

Thus I spoke, and speaking sigh'd,
Scarce repress'd the starting tear,
When the hoary sage, reply'd,
Come, my lad, and drink some beer.

Samuel Johnson.

 

[4321lynx]

Wheresoe'er I turn my view,
All is strange, yet nothing new:
Endless labour all along,
Endless labour to be wrong;
Phrase that time hath flung away,
Uncouth words in disarray,
Trick'd in antique ruff and bonnet,
Ode and elegy and sonnet.

Samuel Johnson AD 1777