Gnostic Quotes
What’s the meaning of life? Aphorisms, maxims and quotations expressing the paradoxical essence of gnosticism.
Facts
"If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts." - Albert Einstein
"Get your facts first and then you can distort them as much as you please." - Mark Twain
"There are no facts, only interpretations." - Friedrich Nietzsche
"Facts are ventriloquists' dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they [...]
Faith
"Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile!" - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
"A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything." - Friedrich Nietzsche
"Skepticism is the beginning of Faith." - Oscar Wilde
Fanaticism
"In the history of mankind, fanaticism has caused more harm than vice." - Louis Kronenberger
"Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim." - George Santayana
Fanatics
"Wisdom becomes nonsense in the mouth of a fanatic." - Otto Schuwdrmer
"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject." - Winston S. Churchill, 1874-1965
"A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt." - Aldous Huxley
"A fanatic is a man [...]
Fear
"Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind." - H. P. Lovecraft
"Fear has many eyes and can see things underground." - Miguel De Cervantes
"Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear." - Zora Neale Hurston
"Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be." - Lucius [...]
Fearlessness
"In order to experience fearlessness, it is necessary to experience fear. The essence of cowardice is not acknowledging the reality of fear." - Chogyam Trungpa
"Do that which you fear to do, and the fear will die" - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I will abandon all fear and terror. . . Now that I [...]
Fear of God
"The fear of God is not the beginning of wisdom. The fear of God is the death of wisdom." - Clarence Darrow, Why I Am An Agnostic
"Those that worship God merely for Fear Would worship the Devil too, if he appear." - Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, No. 6419, pub. 1732
"In [...]
Folding
"In some sense man is a microcosm of the universe; therefore what man is, is a clue to the universe. We are enfolded in the universe." - David Bohm
"There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives to his life by the unfolding of his powers." - Erich Fromm
Forty
"There are 40 kinds of lunacy, but only one kind of common sense." - African Proverb
Freedom
"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"If you truly yearn to be free, you must first recognize all the ways you are unfree. Only after constructing a complete catalogue of the constraints upon you can you begin to consider which ones [...]
Fruit
"For the creative mind, there is no right or wrong. Every action is an experiment, and every experiment yields its fruit in knowledge." - Hagbard Celine
"Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?" - Frank Scully
"One that would have the fruit must climb the tree." - Thomas [...]
Fundamentalism
"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction." - Pascal, Pensees, 1670
"Cruel men believe in a cruel God and use their belief to excuse their cruelty." - Bertrand Russell
"As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities." [...]
Funny
"What helps for me - if help comes at all - is to find the mustard seed of the funny at the core of the horrible and futile." - Philip K. Dick
"When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth." - George Bernard Shaw
Future & Past
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." - George Santayana, 1863-1952
"Who controls the past controls the future. And who controls the present controls the past." - George Orwell, 1984
"The future influences the present just as much as the past." - Friedrich Nietzsche
"The mind of [...]
