Clarence Darrow

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• I don’t believe in God because I don’t believe in Mother Goose.

  Speech in Toronto (1930); as quoted in “Breaking the Last Taboo” (1996) by James A. Haught

  • Anti-God

• True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.

  • Justice
  • Patriotism

• I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure⁠—that is all that agnosticism means.

  Scopes Trial, Dayton, Tennessee (13 July 1925)

  • God

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• No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

  John Donne1572–1631No Man Is an Island (1624), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), Meditation 17In context

• I came, I saw, I conquered.

  Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).

  • Success

• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)

  • Philosophy