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I am treated as evil by people who claim that they are being oppressed because they are not allowed to read more
I am treated as evil by people who claim that they are being oppressed because they are not allowed to force me to practice what they do.
If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that read more
If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear there'd be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it.
to be nobody-but-myself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make me everybody else means, read more
to be nobody-but-myself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make me everybody else means, to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.
Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.
Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.
One of the proofs of the divinity of our gospel is the preaching it has survived.
One of the proofs of the divinity of our gospel is the preaching it has survived.
As a first approximation, I define "belief" not as the object of believing (a dogma, a program, etc.) but as read more
As a first approximation, I define "belief" not as the object of believing (a dogma, a program, etc.) but as the subject's investment in a proposition, the act of saying it and considering it as true.
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.
I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.
