Gnostic Quotes
What’s the meaning of life? Aphorisms, maxims and quotations expressing the paradoxical essence of gnosticism.
Name
"The name of Christ has caused more persecutions, wars, and miseries than any other name has caused." - John E. Remsburg, The Christ, 1910
"Once people get hung up on theology, they've lost sanity forever. More people have been killed in the name of Jesus Christ than any other name in the history [...]
Nature
"When a fantasy turns you on, you're obligated to God and nature to start doing it right away." - Stewart Brand
"Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment." - R. Buckminster Fuller
"Some of us still get [...]
New Ideas
"A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds." - Mark Twain
"I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." - John Cage
Ninety-nine
"Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99% of them are wrong." - H. L. Mencken
"Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable." - Buckminster Fuller
Nonsense
"Confidence in nonsense is a requirement for the creative process." - Unknown
"…there is as much sense in nonsense as there is nonsense in sense." - Anthony Burgess
"I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells… it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope." - [...]
Nothingness
"The great mystery is not that we should have been thrown down here at random between the profusion of matter and that of the stars; it is that from our very prison we should draw, from our own selves, images powerful enough to deny our nothingness." - Andre Malraux, Man's Fate, pub. 1933
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Not Knowing
"There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for." - Fred Hoyle
"And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all." - Socrates
