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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.
Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the read more
No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.
Treat others as thou wouldn't be treated. What thou likest not for thyself, dispense not to others.
Treat others as thou wouldn't be treated. What thou likest not for thyself, dispense not to others.
My mind is my own church.
My mind is my own church.
In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity.
In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity.
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.
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.
The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted read more
The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance...logic can be happily tossed out the window.