Would you share the name of your favorite philosopher or author, and perhaps a passage from that said person?

“Everybody lies” – House
“God is dead” – Friedrich Nietzsche.
“The earth was blue, but there was no God.” – Yuri Gagarin

Terry Goodkind is one of my favorite authors, here is a not-so-little quote.

“The only sovereign I can allow to rule me is reason. The first law of reason is this: what exists exists; what is is. From this irreducible, bedrock principle, all knowledge is built. This is the foundation from which life is embraced. Reason is a choice. Wishes and whims are not facts, nor are they a means to discovering them. Reason is our only way of grasping reality—it is our basic tool of survival. We are free to evade the effort of thinking, to reject reason, but we are not free to avoid the penalty of the abyss we refuse to see.”

Though it’s nearly impossible to choose a favourite, I’m particularly fond of Kahlil Gibran

“I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.”

A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.

David Hume

There was a terrible ghastly silence. There was a terrible ghastly noise. There was a terrible ghastly silence

— Douglas Adams.

The public health authorities never mention the main reason many Americans have for smoking heavily, which is that smoking is a fairly sure, fairly honorable form of suicide.

— Kurt Vonnegut

“What ever you don’t understand you can make mean anything” -Palahnuik

“Life isn’t divided into genres. It’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a little bit of pornography if you’re lucky.” -Alan Moore

“It’s easy to get all philosophical when you aren’t the one with shit for blood.”
-Irvine Welsh, through the protagonist, Mark Renton, commenting on people without AID’s and their claims that living with it is easy.

Lurve and a hearty Welcome to all the new faces.
@Seek_Kolinahr Extra lurve to anyone who quotes Kahlil Gibran.
I will quote Groucho Marx:
“Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.”

“There’s nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.”

Daniel Dennet.

absolutely couldn’t, read the books to long ago.

One of my favourite philosopher and authors is undoubtedly the perpetually witty and insightful Voltaire,
“Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers”
“It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind”
“The fate of a nation has often depended on the food or bad digestion of a prime minister”

“A consistent thinker is a thoughtless person, because he conforms to a pattern; he repeats phrases and thinks in a groove.”

- J. Krishnamurti