Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

The Kingdom of Heaven is a condition of the heart — not something that comes upon the earth or after death.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact.

~ Sartre

Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

~ Saint Augustine

"In the long run, nothing can withstand reason and experience, and the contradiction religion offers to both is palpable." - Sigmund Freud

For Zen, man is the goal; man is

the end unto himself. God is not something above humanity, God is something hidden within humanity. Man is carrying God in himself as a potentiality.

~ Osho

Enlightenment is the understanding that this is all, that this is perfect, that this is it. Enlightenment is not an achievement, it is an understanding that there is nothing to achieve, nowhere to go.

~ Osho

All a gun does is focus an explosion in one direction. You have a class of young strong men and women, and they want to give their lives to something. Advertising has these people chasing cars and clothes they don't need. Generations have been working in jobs they hate, just so they can buy what they don't really need.

~ Chuck Palahniuk