[BendtheBar]

“Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”
— Bertrand Russell

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
— Mark Twain

“Science of today – the superstition of tomorrow. Science of tomorrow – the superstition of today.”
— Charles Fort, The Book of the Damned

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
— Arthur C. Clarke, Profiles of the Future

“Magic is never totally scientifically explainable, but science has always been, at one time or another, considered magic.”
— Anton Szandor LaVey, The Satanic Bible

“Those who throw out these results will not be scientists, but merely another set of dogmatists — of whom new crops are continually springing up, wearing new disguises and new labels. The plain truth is that in science, as in politics and religion, it is a lot easier to believe what you have been taught, than to set out for yourself and ascertain what happens.”
— Upton Sinclair, Mental Radio

“The more we look into what we think we know, the more hitherto undetected things we shall find lurking in our assumptions.”
— H.G. Wells, The New World Order

“As soon as you look at the world through an ideology, you are finished. No reality fits an ideology. Life is beyond that … That is why people are always searching for meaning to life … Meaning is only found when you go beyond meaning. Life only makes sense when you perceive it as mystery and it makes no sense to the conceptualizing mind.”
— Anthony de Mello

“There comes a point when you either embrace who and what you are, or condemn yourself to be miserable all yours days. Other people will try to make you miserable; don’t help them by doing the job yourself.”
— Laurell K. Hamilton

“Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
— Albert Camus

“There is a beast in man that needs to be exercised, not exorcised.”
— Anton Szandor LaVey

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
— Edmund Burke

“Enlightenment is absolute cooperation with the inevitable.”
— Anthony de Mello