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Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand.
Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand.
Nothing as mundane as mere evidence can be allowed to threaten a vision so deeply satisfying.
Nothing as mundane as mere evidence can be allowed to threaten a vision so deeply satisfying.
Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.
Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.
It needs fanatical faith to rationalize our cowardice.
It needs fanatical faith to rationalize our cowardice.
The fewer words the better prayer.
The fewer words the better prayer.
Spiritual progress is like detoxification. Things have to come up in order to be released. Once we have asked to read more
Spiritual progress is like detoxification. Things have to come up in order to be released. Once we have asked to be healed, then our unhealed places are forced to the surface.
In some awful, strange, paradoxical way, atheists tend to take religion more seriously than the practitioners.
In some awful, strange, paradoxical way, atheists tend to take religion more seriously than the practitioners.
The foundation of all morality is to have done, once and for all, with lying; to give up pretending to read more
The foundation of all morality is to have done, once and for all, with lying; to give up pretending to believe that for which there is no evidence, and repeating unintelligible propositions about things beyond the possibilities of knowledge.
The devil personifies not the nature that is around us but the nature that is within us- the infinitely ferocious read more
The devil personifies not the nature that is around us but the nature that is within us- the infinitely ferocious and cunning prehuman creature that is still within us, sealed in the subconscious cellars of the psyche.
