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    It is perhaps not entirely so, though it has often been said, that man makes his God in his own image. Rather does he create Him in the image of his cravings and dreams- in the image of what man wants to be. God making could be part of the process by which a society realizes its aspirations: it first embodies them in the conception of a particular God, and then proceeds to imitate that God. The confidence requisite for attempting the unprecedented is most effectively generated by the fiction that in realizing the new we are imitating rather than originating. Our preoccupation with heaven can be part of an effort to find precedents for the unprecedented.

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Again men have been kept back as by a kind of enchantment from progress in science by reverence for antiquity, read more

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Who shoots at the mid-day sun, though he be so sure he shall never hit the mark, yet as sure read more

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Every man is as Heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.

Every man is as Heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.

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I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it read more

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If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your thoughts, read more

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The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there read more

The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.

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It is better to correct your own faults than those of another.

It is better to correct your own faults than those of another.

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