Paradise
"Paradise is not a place, but a state of consciousness." - Sri Chimnoy
"Paradise is exactly like where you are right now… only much, much better." - Laurie Anderson
"Where the tree of knowledge stands, there is always Paradise' :…
Paradox
"The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it." - Bertrand Russell, The Philosophy of Logical Atomism
"The folly…
People
"If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." - Anatole France
"Never underestimate the power of very stupid people in large groups." - John Kenneth Galbraith
"When people are free to do as they…
Persecution
"Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law." - Thomas Paine
"It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its…
Pictures
"People who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree." - Pablo Picasso
Pigs
"In the animal kingdom, the rule is: eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom: define or be defined. Language separates men from other animals. It also reduces them to the level of animals - as in calling Jews 'vermin'…
Pleasure
"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do." - Walter Bagehot
"What we learn with pleasure we never forget." - Alfred Mercier
"For God's sake, if you sin, take pleasure in it, and do it…
Poison
"Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison." - Georges Bataille, 1897-1962
"In all things there is a poison, and there is nothing without a poison. It depends…
Police
"I'm not against the police; I'm just afraid of them." - Alfred Hitchcock
Possession
"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look long into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche
"A vacant mind invites dangerous inmates,…
Power
"Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb." - Nadine Gordimer
Prayer
"Prayer does not change God, but changes him who prays" - Soren Kierkegaard
"When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers." - Oscar Wilde
"What men usually ask for when they pray to God is, that two…
Praying
"Why is it when we talk to God we're praying — but when God talks to us, we're schizophrenic?" - Lily Tomlin
"When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying and I suddenly realized I was talking…
Primitive
"If the aborigine drafted an IQ test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it." - Stanley Garn
"Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to break up…
Prison
"It is possible to get out of a trap. However, in order to break out of prison, one must first confess to living in a prison." - Wilhelm Reich
"The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the…
Prisoners
"The prisoner is not the one who has committed a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over." - Henry Miller
"A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may…
Prison Guard
"People become excited trying to know if the prison came from the guard or if the guard came from the prison; even though this agitation has had a primordial historical importance, today it risks provoking delayed astonishment, if only because…
Property
"It is wrong to say that God made rich and poor; He made only male and female; and He gave them the earth for their inheritance…. The earth, in its natural uncultivated state was, and ever would have continued to…
Proto…?
"God created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed - that is the meaning of evolution." - Graham Greene
"I am, in point of fact, a particularly haughty and exclusive person, of pre-Adamite ancestral descent. You…
Puritans
"Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand." - Gunther Grass
"The Web is human imagination unleashed in all its perverse glory. Let the Puritans…
