#eli

My faith in the expertise of physicists like Richard Feynman, for instance, permits me to endorse—and, if it comes to it, bet heavily on the truth of—a proposition that I don't understand. So far, my faith is not unlike religious faith, but I am not in the slightest bit motivated to go to my death rather than recant the formulas of physics. Watch: E doesn't equal mc2, it doesn't, it doesn't! I was lying, so there! ↗

— Daniel C. Dennett

#religion #science #death

I introduced Nora as my wife, though that was a lie. Old people, that's what they wanted to hear. If you were married, you were mature, reliable, exactly like them, because in their day men and women didn't just live together--they made a commitment, they had children and went on cruises and built big houses on lakes and filled them with all the precious trinkets and manufactured artifacts they'd collected along the way. ↗

— T.C. Boyle

#cohabitation #commitment #marriage #maturity #reliability

I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#religion #business

I used to use business to make money. But I've learned that business is a tool. You can use it to support what you believe in. ↗

— Po Bronson

#business #business

Sometimes it seems that men--yes, and even women too!--if they believe in a thing strongly enough, they get a strength or endurance that they wouldn't have believe possible. ↗

— Carter Dickson

#endurance #strength #men

He sees daily evidence that many things held to be true by nine-tenths of all men are, in reality, false, and he is thereby apt to acquire a doubt of everything, including his own beliefs. ↗

— H.L. Mencken

#doubt #men

In a secularising world, art has replaced religion as a touchstone of our reverence and devotion. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#religion #secularism #art

It is the business of a virtuous clergy to censure vice in every appearance of it. ↗

— Patrick Henry

#preaching #religion #sin #business

It is very odd to be standing in a locked room in the Penitentiary, speaking with a strange man about France and Italy and Germany. A travelling man. He must be a wanderer, like Jeremiah the peddler. But Jeremiah travelled to earn his bread, and these other sorts of men are rich enough already. They go on voyages because they are curious. They amble around the world and stare at things, they sail across the oceans as if there's nothing to it at all, and if it goes ill with them in one place they simply pick up and move along to another. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#traveling #men

Banks are the temples of America. This is a holy war. Our economy is our religion. ↗

— Giannina Braschi

#humor #inspirational #politics #religion #business