He who trims himself to suit everyone soon whittles himself away.
-- Raymond Hull

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
--Martin Luther King Jr.

For the believer, no evidence is necessary. For the non believer, no evidence is possible.
-- Ed Warren

They must find it difficult...those that have taken authority as the truth, rather than truth as the authority.
--Gerald Massey, Egyptologist

The world we have created is a product of our thinking, it cannot be changed without changing our thinking.
--Albert Einstein

Real courage is found, not in the willingness to risk death, but in the willingness to stand, alone if necessary, against the ignorant and disapproving herd.
--Jon Roland, 1976

It is true that there are exercises that can strengthen the 'muscle' that enable us to push back the bounds of acceptation. But these are relatively unimportant. The real problem is that we are trapped in misconceptions that always deceive us, as the matador's cape deceives the bull, that continue to deceive us a million times over the course of a lifetime. Wittgenstein once said that traditional philosophy causes a form of mental cramp, and that the aim of his philosophy was to remove this mental cramp, or to 'show the fly the way out of the bottle'. Our misconceptions involve the passive fallacy and notion that consciousness is a plane mirror that cannot lie about the world it reflects.
--Collin Wilson