Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

~ Confucius

The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.

~ Descartes

He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.

~ Nietzsche

Sin is a queer thing. It isn't the breaking of divine commandments, but of one's own integrity.

~ D. H. Lawrence

We still by no means think decisively enough about the essence of action.

~ Martin Heidegger

We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.

~ Confucius

Most nations, as well as people, are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older.

~ Rousseau

Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.

~ Nietzsche

Kalama Sutta

The people of Kalama asked the Buddha who to believe out of all the ascetics, sages, venerables, and holy ones who, like himself, passed through their town. They complained that they were confused by the many contradictions they discovered in what they heard. The Kalama Sutta is the Buddha's reply.

–	Do not believe anything on mere hearsay.
–	Do not believe in traditions merely because they are old and have been handed down for many generations and in many places.
–	Do not believe anything on account of rumors or because people talk a a great deal about it.
–	Do not believe anything because you are shown the written testimony of some ancient sage.
–	Do not believe in what you have fancied, thinking that, because it is extraordinary, it must have been inspired by a god or other wonderful being.
–	Do not believe anything merely because presumption is in its favor, or because the custom of many years inclines you to take it as true.
–	Do not believe anything merely on the authority of your teachers and priests.
–	But, whatever, after thorough investigation and reflection, you find to agree with reason and experience, as conducive to the good and benefit of one and all and of the world at large, accept only that as true, and shape your life in accordance with it.

The same text, said the Buddha, must be applied to his own teachings.

–	Do not accept any doctrine from reverence, but first try it as gold is tried by fire.

"Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason."

Kant

“Nobody is here to fulfill your dream. Everybody is here to fulfill his own destiny, his own reality.”

Osho

“If you wish to see the truth, then hold no opinion for or against.”

Osho

“Only those who are ready to become nobodies are able to love.”

Osho

“When love and hate are both absent everything becomes clear and undisguised.”

Osho

“Fools laugh at others. Wisdom laughs at itself.”

Osho

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