T Quotes
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“The atavistic master whose mistress one is, to wait on his pleasure. This sort always considers every pretty woman "shallow", a sort of peacock with arrested development.”
Source: The Beautiful and Damned
“The Athanasian Creed is the most splendid ecclesiastical lyric ever poured forth by the genius of man.”
Source: Endymion
“The atheism and nihilism of my earlier years now seems shallow, and even a bit cocky.”
Source: Memnoch the Devil
“The atheist . . . destroys the chimeras which afflict the human race, and so leads men back to nature, to experience and to reason.”
“The atheist, agnostic, or secularist ... should not be cowed by exaggerated sensitivity to people's religious beliefs and fail to speak vigorously and pointedly when the devout put forth arguments manifestly contrary to all the acquired knowledge of the past two or three millennia. Those who advocate a piece of folly like the theory of an 'intelligent creator' should be held accountable for their folly; they have no right to be offended for being called fools until they establish that they are not in fact fools. Religiously inclined writers like Stephen L Carter may plead that 'respect' should be accorded to religious views in public discourse, but he neglects to demonstrate that those views are worthy of respect. All secularists -- scientists, literary figures, even politicians (if there are any such with the requisite courage) -- should speak out on the issue when the opportunity presents itself.”
Source: Atheism: A Reader
“The atheist barista (who's obsessed with astrology) asked me, "So what's your sign?" I responded, "The sign of the cross." I think she spit in my coffee.”
“The Atheist complains about the wind. The Christian prays for it to change. The Satanist adjusts his sails.”
“The atheist does not say 'there is no God,' but he says 'I know not what you mean by God; I am without idea of God'; the word 'God' is to me a sound conveying no clear or distinct affirmation. ... The Bible God I deny; the Christian God I disbelieve in; but I am not rash enough to say there is no God as long as you tell me you are unprepared to define God to me.”
“The atheist has no hope.”
Source: Steps of Belief: Or, Rational Christianity Maintained Against Atheism, Free Religion, and Romanism
“The atheist is a religious person. He believes in atheism as though it were a new religion. According to Renan, "The day after that on which the world should no longer believe in God, atheists would be the wretchedest of all men."”
Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer
“The atheist is cheating whenever he makes a moral judgment, acting as though it has an objective reference, when his philosophy in fact precludes it.”
“The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself.”
“The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself; but is the Theist any other? Well, perhaps; for he has seen the shadow of God and clutched at it.”
Source: Essays divine and human with thoughts and aphorisms
“The atheist is not interested in anything except attacks on atheism.”
“The atheist must abandon his defensive positions, take up the cudgels and go forward, rather than into the retreat of apathy.”
“The atheist proposition is the following - most of the time - it may not be said that there is no god; it may be said that there is no reason to think that there is one.”
“The atheist realizes that there must not only be an acceptance of his right to hold his opinion, but that ultimately his is the job to turn his culture from religion, to eliminate those irrational ideas which have held the human race in intellectual slavery.”
“The atheist risk everything for the present and the future, on the basis of a belief that we are uncaused by any intelligent being. We just happen to be here. That one is willing to live and die in that belief is a very high price to pay for conjecture.”
Source: The Real Face of Atheism
“The atheist staring from his attic window is often nearer to God than the believer caught up in his own false image of God.”
“The atheist suicide bomber is unfaithfully committed to his mission”
“The atheist view is correspondingly life-affirming and life-enhancing, while at the same time never being tainted with self-delusion, wishful thinking, or the whingeing self-pity of those who feel that life owes them something.”
Source: The God Delusion
“The Atheist waits for proof of God. Till that proof comes he remains, as his name implies, without God. His mind is open to every new truth, after it has passed the warder Reason at the gate.”
“The atheist worldview of life is a materialistic culture that frees humanity from superstition.”
“The atheist, agnostic, or secularist ... should guard against the encroachment of religion in areas where it has no place, and in particular the control of education by religious authority. The attempts to ban the teaching of evolution or other scientific theories -- a feeble echo of medieval church tyranny and hostility to learning, but an echo nonetheless are serious threats to freedom of inquiry and should be vigorously combated.”
“The atheist, agnostic, or secularist ... should insist on the need to engage in a meaningful debate on the entire issue of the truth or falsity (or probability or improbability) of religious tenets, without being subject to accusations of impiety, immorality, impoliteness, or any of the other smokescreens used by the pious to deflect attention from the central issues at hand.”
“The atheist, by merely being in touch with reality, appears shamefully out of touch with the fantasy life of his neighbors.”
“The atheistic idea is so nonsensical that I do not see how I can put it in words.”
“The atheists are for the most part imprudent and misguided scholars who reason badly who, not being able to understand the Creation, the origin of evil, and other difficulties, have recourse to the hypothesis the eternity of things and of inevitability.”
“The atheists ask- “If God has created everything, then who has created God?” I politely tell them- the question is illogical and much unscientific because there is no creator of God! Let me explain- for example, if the atheists tell that ‘Z’ has created God, then another question appears- “Who has created ‘Z’?” Then, the atheists may answer ‘Y’. Later, a question will arise- “Who has created ‘Y’?” There will be such infinite illogical questions! So, it is proved that there is no creator of God!”
“The atheists traditionally hold their conventions from Good Friday to Easter Sunday during the hours Christ spent in the grave.”
“The Athenian democracy suffered much from that narrowness of patriotism which is the ruin of all nations.”
Source: The Outline of History: Prehistory to the Roman Republic
“The Athenians govern the Greeks; I govern the Athenians; you, my wife, govern me; your son governs you.”
“The Athenians regularly maintained a number of degraded and useless beings at the public expense; and when any calamity, such as plague, drought, or famine, befell the city, they sacrificed two of these outcast scapegoats.”
“The Athens Olympics will be meaningful even though I cannot participate as an athlete, since I can participate in the flame relay all over the world.”
“The Athlete defeats fear and conquers himself!”
“The athlete knows the day will never come when he wakes up pain-free. He has to play hurt.”
Source: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles
“The athlete makes himself, the coach doesn't make the athlete.”
“The athlete must make a devotion of his specialty.”
“The athlete of today is not an athlete alone. He's the center of a team - doctors, scientists, coaches, agents and so on.”
“The athlete who is building muscles though weight training should be very sure to work adequately on speed and flexibility at the same time. In combat, without the prior attributes, a strong man will be like the bull with its colossal strength futilely pursuing the matador or like a low-geared truck chasing a rabbit.”
Source: Tao of Jeet Kune Do
“The athlete who says that something can't be done should never interrupt the one who's doing it”
“The athletes at the highest level of our sport commit themselves to a life of discipline, hardship, sacrifice, and suffering.”
Source: Chasing Excellence: A Story About Building the World’s Fittest Athletes
“The Athletic Association competed against the University. So there was an event. You cannot break world records unless it is an established event, and you have three timekeepers, and the whole thing is organized.”
“The athletic fool, to whom what heaven denied of soul, is well compensated in limbs.”
Source: The Art of Preserving Health: A Poem, in Four Books
“The Atkins' diet is where you eat bacon for six or seven months...and the end result is that you lose weight. Because you're dead.”
“The Atlanta Hawks are a bunch of guys who would prefer to pass kidney stones than pass a basketball.”
“The Atlantean Road by Stewart Stafford
A snake of stones
beneath the waters
Soldiers march
past spectral daughters
Phantom travellers
To work or home
Atlantean lives
replay in foam
The water drowned
out extinct times
Of joy and war
Of love and crime
The divers rapt
by sound immemorial
Echoes entombed
Sweet voices choral
The flame of Erasmus
and barking sounds
Of canine guards
and strangers found
The road roused
from silent sleep
To tell explorers
how ancients weep
© Stewart Stafford, 2023. All rights reserved.”
“The Atlantic Ocean was something then.”
“The Atlantic really gave me my writing career - even just the conviction to be a writer.”
“The Atlas belongs to the Lenbachhaus in Munich - it's long since ceased to belong to me. Occasionally I run across it somewhere, and I think it's interesting because it looks different each time.”
Source: Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007