Lines From A Book That Can Change The Way You See The World (29 pics)

So, these simple platitudes are the best this group of people can come up with? I mean, some of them are good, but at least have some complex prose or verse with interweaving ideas and several possible interpretations. Don't give me Harry F*cking Potter or Lord of the F*cking Rings.

“And do you think that unto such as you;
A maggot-minded, starved, fanatic crew:
God gave the secret, and denied it me?—
Well, well, what matters it! Believe that, too.”
- Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

“… his aversion to religion, in the sense usually attached to the term, was of the same kind with that of Lucretius: he regarded it with the feelings due not to a mere mental delusion, but to a great moral evil. He looked upon it as the greatest enemy of morality: first, by setting up factitious excellencies,---belief in creeds, devotional feelings, and ceremonies, not connected with the good of human kind,---and causing these to be accepted as substitutes for genuine virtues: but above all, by radically vitiating the standard of morals; making it consist in doing the will of a being, on whom it lavishes indeed all the phrases of adulation, but whom in sober truth it depicts as eminently hateful."
- John Stuart Mill, on his father in, The Autobiography

"Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing."
- Macbeth, by William Shakespeare, spoken by the titular character upon learning of his wife's death