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Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

Philip K. Dick, in Science and Religion

All these nervous breakdowns are driving me crazy.

Lee Hawkins, in Health and Disease

A celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness.

Daniel Boorstin, in Success and Failure

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

Timothy Leary, in Men and Women

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, in War and Peace

I've never met a healthy person who worried much about his health or a good person who worried much about his soul.

Haldane, in Health and Disease and Vice and Virtue

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, in Altruism and Cynicism

A continuing flow of paper is sufficient to continue the flow of paper.

Dyer, in Work and Recreation

I think it would be a good idea.

Mahatma Gandhi, (when asked what he thought of Western civilization), in Law and Politics

The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.

Doug Horton, in Love and Hate

I got a simple rule about everybody. If you don't treat me right, shame on you.

Louis Armstrong, in Vice and Virtue

In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.

Christian Nevell Bovee, (from Politicians and Other Scoundrels by Ferdinand Lundberg), in Law and Politics

Anybody who wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.

David Broder, in Law and Politics

Comedy is tragedy plus time.

Carol Burnett, in Happiness and Misery

If I don't know I don't know, I think I know. If I don't know I know, I think I don't know.

R. D. Laing, in Wisdom and Ignorance

It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, in Science and Religion

Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It buys you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness.

Henrik Ibsen, in Wealth and Poverty

I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.

Garrison Keillor, in Vice and Virtue

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

Albert Einstein, in Vice and Virtue

If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.

John Burroughs, in Science and Religion