Gnostic Quotes
What’s the meaning of life? Aphorisms, maxims and quotations expressing the paradoxical essence of gnosticism.
Tapeworms
"He was as fitted to survival in this modern world as a tapeworm in an intestine." - William Golding, 1911-1993
"Which came first, the intestine or the tapeworm?" - William S. Burroughs
"From the point of view of the tapeworm, man was created by God to serve the appetite of the tapeworm." [...]
Television
"IT ROTS THE SENSE IN THE HEAD! IT KILLS IMAGINATION DEAD! IT CLOGS AND CLUTTERS UP THE MIND! IT MAKES A CHILD SO DULL AND BLIND HE CAN NO LONGER UNDERSTAND A FANTASY, A FAIRYLAND! HIS BRAIN BECOMES AS SOFT AS CHEESE! HIS POWERS OF THINKING RUST AND FREEZE! HE CANNOT THINK - HE ONLY [...]
Temptation
"There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted." - James Branch Cabell
"I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it." - Mae West
"It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations." - Walter Bagehot, Biographical [...]
Ten Commandments
"It has been contended for many years that the Ten Commandments are the foundations of all ideas of justice and law. Nothing can be more stupidly false." - Robert G. Ingersoll
"The Ten Commandments are for lame brains.The first five are solely for the benefit of the priests and the powers that be; [...]
Theory
"Socrates thought and so do I that the wisest theory about the gods is no theory at all." - Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
"Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true." - Niels Bohr
Three-headed monster
"The Christian god can be easily pictured as virtually the same as the many ancient gods of past civilisations. The Christian god is a three-headed monster; cruel, vengeful and capricious. If one wishes to know more of this raging, three headed beast-like god, one only needs to look at the calibre of the people who [...]
Time
"A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is." - Bertrand Russell
"Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is [...]
Transplant
"Life isn't one straight line. Most of us have to be transplanted, like a tree, before we blossom." - Louise Nevelson, 1899-1988
"In transplanting brains to an alien soil God leaves a little of the original earth clinging to the roots." - Ambrose Bierce
Tree of Knowledge
"They were allowed to stay there on one condition, and that is that they didn't eat of the tree of knowledge. That has been the condition of the Christian church from then until now. They haven't eaten as yet, as a rule they do not." - Clarence Darrow
"Jehovah, who of all the good [...]
Tree of Life
"We are sinful not merely because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life." - Franz Kafka, Parables and Paradoxes: Paradise
"A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees." - William Blake
"Eating is the form of [...]
Truth
"What is truth?" - Pontius Pilate
"Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad." - Aldous Huxley
"Art is the lie that makes us realize the truth." - Pablo Picasso
"Fiction is the truth inside the lie." - Stephen King
"Nothing is true. Everything is permitted." [...]
Twenty
"It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg. " - Thomas Jefferson
Two
"The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants." - Roger Von Oech
"Man consists of two parts, his mind and his body, only the body [...]
Two Gods
"Suppose we've chosen the wrong god. Every time we go to church we're just making him madder and madder." - Homer Simpson, The Simpsons
"The Good God and the Evil God met on the mountain top. The Good God said, 'Good day to you, brother.' The Evil God made no answer. And the [...]
