Disencumbering Quotes & Sayings

Misery makes sport to mock itself. — William Shakespeare

We live in a world in which people can do unbelievably beautiful or unbelievably horrible things to other people. And if those horrible acts argue against the existence of God, then the beautify acts must argue for God's existence. — Dennis Prager

Many of Nature's finest lessons are to be found in her storms, and if careful to keep in right relations with them, we may go safely abroad with them, rejoicing in the grandeur and beauty of their works and ways. — John Muir

As an undergraduate I majored in British and American literature at Rice University. — David Eagleman

Our forebears back in the camp meeting days used to say that if people left a meeting talking about what a wonderful sermon the preacher gave or how beautifully the singers sang, the meeting had failed. But if people went home saying things like "Isn't God good? He met me tonight in such a wonderful way," it was a good meeting. There was to be no sharing the stage with the Lord. — Jim Cymbala

Enlightenment is a group activity. — Charles Eisenstein

The noble caste was in the beginning always the barbarian caste: their superiority lay, not in their physical strength, but primarily in their psychical - they were more complete human beings ... — Friedrich Nietzsche

(On one estimate, the adult human brain stores about one billion bits - a couple of orders of magnitude less than a low-end smartphone. — Nick Bostrom