Source: Barbarian Sentiments - How The American Century Ends (1989), Chapter 5, Nationalism, p. 147.
“I am always in quest of being open to what the universe will bring me.”
Conversations with a Lady on the Plurality of Worlds or Etretiens sur la Pluralité des Mondes (1686) as quoted by Mark Brake, Alien Life Imagined: Communicating the Science and Culture of Astrobiology (2012)
Last Week Tonight (15 June 2014) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPV3D7f3bHY
Last Week Tonight (2014–present)
"Trefusis Blasphemes" radio broadcast, as published in Paperweight (1993)
1990s
Context: I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance. That is my religion, and every day I am sorely, grossly, heinously and deeply offended, wounded, mortified and injured by a thousand different blasphemies against it. When the fundamental canons of truth, honesty, compassion and decency are hourly assaulted by fatuous bishops, pompous, illiberal and ignorant priests, politicians and prelates, sanctimonious censors, self-appointed moralists and busy-bodies, what recourse of ancient laws have I? None whatever. Nor would I ask for any. For unlike these blistering imbeciles my belief in my religion is strong and I know that lies will always fail and indecency and intolerance will always perish.
Hazel's Dad, p. 213-214
The Fault in Our Stars (2012)
Source: Better-World Philosophy: A Sociological Synthesis (1899), The Social Problem, p. 87
“The Universe consists of non-simultaneously apprehended events.”
As quoted by Robert Anton Wilson in Maybe Logic - The Lives and Ideas of Robert Anton Wilson (2003)
From 1980s onwards
