Quotables

I found these while surfing around the Internet, and I figured I'd share:

"He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife."
-Douglas Adams

If you've never read any of Adams' stuff, you need to. The guy is as big an atheist as I've ever read, but his books are genuinely funny and on occasion very thought-provoking. He's good at pointing out inconsistancies in everyone's worldviews -- including his own.

"It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards."
-Lewis Carroll

If you REALLY think about this one, he's right. We need to learn from our mistakes, so we can apply that knowledge to today and tomorrow. So in that sense, it really is our memories working in both directions -- backward and forward.

Posted by: Warren Kelly at 01:35 PM

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