It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring. (Carl Sagan)

If you can’t get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you’d best teach it to dance. (George Bernard Shaw)

I don’t know why we are here, but I’m pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. (H. G. Wells)

I don’t know why we are here, but I’m pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)

Sex and religion are closer to each other than either might prefer. (Saint Thomas Moore)

Give me chastity and continence, but not yet. (Saint Augustine)

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. (Galileo Galilei)

I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better. (A. J. Liebling)

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true. (James Branch Cabell)

You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it. (Gilbert Keith Chesterton)

Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back. (Paul Erdos)

You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality. (Ayn Rand)