“This was when she asked him whether it was true that love conquered all, as the songs said. 'It is true', he replied, 'but you would do well not to believe it.”
Source: Of Love and Other Demons
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Gabriel García Márquez218
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Sidney Morgenbesser (1921–2004) American philosopher
The Independent, The Independent, Professor Sidney Morgenbesser: Philosopher celebrated for his withering New York Jewish humour http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/professor-sidney-morgenbesser-550224.html, 6 August 2004. Obituaries – Sidney Morgenbesser, 82, Kibitzing Philosopher, Dies http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/04/obituaries/04morgenbesser.html. The New York Times (September 8, 2004).
Bhartrihari (570) Indian linguist, poet and writer
Nītiśataka 2
Variant translation from K.M. Joglekar:
That woman about whom I constantly meditate has no affection for me; she, however, yearns after another who is attached to someone else; while a certain woman pines away for me. Fie on her, on him, on the God of Love, on that woman, and on myself.
Śatakatraya
Muhammad (570–632) Arabian religious leader and the founder of Islam
He said, 'No.'"
Muwatta of Malik ibn Anas, chapter 61, hadith number 19
Sunni Hadith
Diogenes Laërtius (180–240) biographer of ancient Greek philosophers
Socrates, 16.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 2: Socrates, his predecessors and followers
Jerry Coyne (1949) American biologist
If it does matter, then you must justify your beliefs; if it doesn’t, then you must justify belief itself.
Source: Faith vs. Fact (2015), p. 63