Mandingo Book Quotes & Sayings

Give me an answer which is plain to understand. — Aeschylus

You cannot survive in the information era, unless you breathe and filter information at your own pace, according to your own interests and passions. — Anonymous

The hocus-pocus phantasm of a God like another Cerberus, with one body and three heads, had its birth and growth in the blood of thousands and thousands of martyrs ... In fact, the Athanasian paradox that one is three, and three but one, is so incomprehensible to the human mind, that no candid man can say he has any idea of it, and how can he believe what presents no idea? He who thinks he does, only deceives himself. He proves, also, that man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without a rudder, is the sport of every wind. With such persons, gullibility which they call faith, takes the helm from the hand of reason, and the mind becomes a wreck.
[Letter to James Smith discussing Jefferson's hate of the doctrine of the Christian trinity, December 8 1822] — Thomas Jefferson

I think that, when you die, you go back to where you came from before you were born. So I don't think death is a bad thing. — David Blaine

I've always been interested in writing from the perspective of an outsider. — Isaac Marion