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“A smart person speaks out the truth. A wise person doesn't care about speaking it out, as much as he or she cares about utilizing that truth in the society, in a way that brings most progress, in a...”
“if you are suffering without a belief in God, then there is not a lot of hope that your pain has any greater purpose in the grand scheme of the universe. Suffering is just a part of naturalistic ev...”
“This is our recurring temptationto live within our camps caves, taking turns both as the shadow-puppeteers and the audience. We chant our camps mantras repeatedly so they continue reverberating in ...”
“Challenging our sacred beliefs is both frightening and difficult, but we must do it. It is wrong to live in a laissez faire, relativistic or pan-agnostic bubble, where we refuse to face these param...”
“The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage. We are the custodians of life's meaning. We long for a Parent to care for us, to forgive ...”
“...What I have denied and what my reason compels me to deny, is the existence of a Being throned above us as a god, directing our mundane affairs in detail, regarding us as individuals, punishing u...”
“In fact, the truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived.”
“Virtue is under certain circumstances merely an honorable form of stupidity: who could be ill-disposed toward it on that account? And this kind of virtue has not been outlived even today. A kind of...”
“If therefore my work is negative, irreligious, atheistic, let it be remembered that atheism at least in the sense of this work is the secret of religion itself; that religion itself, not indeed o...”
“th. Closely followedin view of the overall shortage of timeby patience.”
“Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able...”
“I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.”
“When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called a Religion.”
“With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil - that takes religion.”
“If you think Gods there, He is. If you dont, He isnt. And if thats what Gods like, I wouldnt worry about it.”
“[E]xceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.”
“Stood in firelight, sweltering. Bloodstain on chest like map of violent new continent. Felt cleansed. Felt dark planet turn under my feet and knew what cats know that makes them scream like babies ...”
“Almighty God, I am sorry I am now an atheist, but have You read Nietzsche?”
“To be the father of growing daughters is to understand something of what Yeats evokes with his imperishable phrase 'terrible beauty.' Nothing can make one so happily exhilarated or so frightened: i...”
“I don't try to imagine a personal God; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.”
