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Being put in our place by something larger, older, greater than ourselves is not a humiliation; it should be accepted as a relief from our insanely hopeful ambitions for our lives.
Religion for Atheists: A Non-Believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
The pioneers and missionaries of religion have been the real cause of more trouble and war than all other classes of mankind.
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
The religious definition of truth is not that it is universal but that it is absolute.
Enchafed Flood
Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods
Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair
It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it
Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs
Religion is too important a matter to its devotees to be a subject of ridicule. If they indulge in absurdities, they are to be pitied rather than ridiculed
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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