Unconnected Incoherent Quotes & Sayings

The uniqueness of humans has been claimed on many grounds, but most often because of our tool-making, culture, language, reason and morality. We have them, the other animals don't, and
so the argument goes
that's that. — Carl Sagan

The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it. — Andre Maurois

The most fulfilling romance is an heroic relationship with yourself. You live and die by your own imagination. — Dean Cavanagh

There is a time when the word "eventually" has the soothing effect of a promise, and a time when the word evokes in us bitterness and scorn. — Eric Hoffer

I'm not a communist, of course. But I do think that everything is down to economics. Capitalism doesn't change. — Helen Mirren

It is incredible how as soon as a people become subject, it promptly falls into such complete forgetfulness of its freedom that it can hardly be roused to the point of regaining it, obeying so easily and willingly that one is led to say that this people has not so much lost its liberty as won its enslavement. — Etienne De La Boetie

Imagine for a moment that we are nothing but the product of billions of years of molecules coming together and ratcheting up through natural selection, that we are composed only of highways of fluids and chemicals sliding along roadways within billions of dancing cells, that trillions of synaptic conversations hum in parallel, that this vast egglike fabric of micron-thin circuitry runs algorithms undreamt of in modern science, and that these neural programs give rise to our decision making, loves, desires, fears, and aspirations. To me, that understanding would be a numinous experience, better than anything ever proposed in anyone's holy text. — David Eagleman