Isaac Bonewits quotes

Far from being the crown of human thought and religion as its supporters have claimed for several bloody millennia, [monotheism] is in fact a monstrous step backwards--a step that has been responsible for more human misery than any other idea in known history.
-- Isaac Bonewits

#Ideas #Crowns #Facts

Sincerity does not equal competence.
-- Isaac Bonewits

#Doe #Sincerity #Equal

Understanding brings control.
-- Isaac Bonewits

#Understanding

Never Again the Burning
-- Isaac Bonewits

#Burning

Christians have oppressed Jews, Moslems, Buddhists, Pagans, and each other throughout their centuries of power, preaching religious intolerance as the word of Jehovah whenever they had the military, political, or economic power to make it stick - and then piously preaching brotherhood, peace, and toleration when they didn't.
-- Isaac Bonewits

#Christian #Religious #Buddhist

Never Again the Burning.
-- Isaac Bonewits

#Burning #Paganism

Folk parapsychology, an art and science designed to enable people to make effective use of their psychic talents
-- Isaac Bonewits

#Art #Psychics #People

The truth and the facts aren't necessarily the same thing. Telling the truth is the object of all art; facts are what the unimaginative have instead of ideas.

I tried the paleo diet, which is the caveman diet - lots of meat. And I tried the calorie restriction diet: The idea is that if you eat very, very little - if you're on the verge of starvation, you will live a very long time, whether or not you want to, of course.

My idea of the perfect bottom would be nice, bubbly, curvy, firm, maybe a little bit bouncy.

I was really intrigued by the idea of using live streams of data that's relevant to real people, and that would allow us to reflect and learn about ourselves.

The foundation stones of a great building are destined to groan and be pressed upon; it is not for them to crown the edifice.

Yes, beloved reader, our God reigneth, and if we crown Him Lord of all, Lord of our soul, Lord of our body, Lord of all the circumstance in our lives, we shall find that He is able to subdue all things unto Himself.

All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. Surely a curious thing. That I should innocently take a bad half-crown of somebody else's manufacture, is reasonable enough; but that I should knowingly reckon the spurious coin of my own make, as good money!

The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.

I liked the fact she understood how we all have little secret habits that seem normal enough to us, but which we know better than to mention out loud.

The student is to collect and evaluate facts. The facts are locked up in the patient.