Obscenities And The First Amendment Quotes & Sayings

What does man actually know about himself? Is he, indeed, ever able to perceive himself completely, as if laid out in a lighted display case? Does nature not conceal most things from him-even concerning his own body-in order to confine and lock him within a proud, deceptive consciousness, aloof from the coils of the bowels, the rapid flow of the blood stream, and the intricate quivering of the fibers! She threw away the key. And woe to that fatal curiosity which might one day have the power to peer out and down through a crack in the chamber of consciousness and then suspect that man is sustained in the indifference of his ignorance by that which is pitiless, greedy, insatiable, and murderous-as if hanging in dreams on the back of a tiger. Given this situation, where in the world could the drive for truth have come from? Insofar as the individual wants to maintain — Friedrich Nietzsche

He couldn't, as a respectable master in an English public school, have taken us to a brothel. Yet how I wish he had! His introduction to sexual experience would, I feel sure, have been a masterpiece of tact; it might well have speeded up our development by a good five years. — Christopher Isherwood

You don't have to be alone with your thoughts anymore. You don't have to process anything. You can call up someone to do something to instantly make you sort of feel better. — Dennis Quaid

Certainly there are lots of things in life that money won't buy, but it's very funny- Have you ever tried to buy them without money? — Ogden Nash

Who needs Satan when you have a God like this? — Robert M. Price

To him who feels himself preordained to contemplation and not to belief, all believers are too noisy and obtrusive; he guards against them. — Friedrich Nietzsche

In Spain, you can go into any tapas bar, and you'll see anchovies all over the menu. — Jose Andres