Greg Epstein quotes

“Those of us who don't want to worship an invisible being or spend our days fretting about punishment in Hades do want to be able to share what we hold dear with our families and the broader world, and we want to be understood and appreciated for who we are.”
-- Greg Epstein

Source : Greg Epstein (2009). “Good Without God: What a Billion Nonreligious People Do Believe”, p.14, Harper Collins

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“There is no life after death, so offer kindness to all, not in the next life but now”
-- Greg Epstein

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“If you ever meet anyone who tells you his or her religion can offer all the answers, run for the hills. Or at least hide your wallet.”
-- Greg Epstein

Source : Greg Epstein (2009). “Good Without God: What a Billion Nonreligious People Do Believe”, p.1, Harper Collins

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“If we consider how greatly he has sinned against the masses in the course of the centuries, how he has squeezed and sucked the blood again and again; if furthermore, we consider how the people gradually learned to hate him for this, and ended up by regarding his existence as nothing but punishment of Heaven for the other peoples, we can understand how hard this shift must be for the Jew.”

“The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.”

“The President of the United States would be liable to be impeached, tried, and upon conviction of treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors, removed from office; and would afterwards be liable to prosecution and punishment in the ordinary course of law. The person of the King of Great Britain is sacred and inviolable: There is no constitutional tribunal to which he is amenable, no punishment to which he can be subjected without involving the crisis of a national revolution.”

Source : Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

“Perils as well as privileges attend the higher Christian life. The nearer we come to God, the thicker the hosts of darkness in heavenly places. Aggressive Christianity is the world's greatest need.”

“We like to see death as an unfair conspiracy, and what we want is a magic practitioner, a combination of Dr Watson and Sherlock Holmes.”

“We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.”

Source : "Our Generation Against Nuclear War". Book by Dimitrios I. Roussopoulos, 1983.

“I want to go beyond the restrictions of language, religion and caste, and music is the only thing that allows me to do that.”

“You have to love what you do to want to do it everyday.”

“Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want.”

“Luke, I don't want to discourage your curiosity, but I have to remind you, if something goes wrong, this is an exceptionally embarassing way to die." Mara”