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Many men without morals have attacked religion because it was contrary to their inclinations. Many wise men have despised it because it seemed to…

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In Nature nothing; is mean or contemptible, and it is only pride, originating in a false idea of our superiority, which causes our contempt…

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God, we are told, is willing to render himself inconsistent and ridiculous, to confound the curiosity of those whom, we are at the same…

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“. . . In all parts of our globe, fanatics have cut each other's throats, publicly burnt each other, committed without a scruple and…

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“An atheist is a man who does not believe the existence of a God; now, no one can be certain of the existence of…

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The universe, that vast assemblage of every thing that exists, presents only matter and motion: the whole offers to our contemplation, nothing but an…

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If we go back to the beginnings of things, we shall always find that ignorance and fear created the gods; that imagination, rapture and…

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Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one. What is most repellent in the System of Nature - after the…

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“...if in the heat of the dispute he insists and asks, 'Am I not the master of throwing myself out of the window?' I…

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The Jehovah of the Jews is a suspicious tyrant, who breathes nothing but blood, murder, and carnage, and who demands that they should nourish…

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“When it shall be desired to enlighten man, let him always have truth laid before him. Instead of kindling his imagination by the idea…

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Men always fool themselves when they give up experience for systems born of the imagination. Man is the work of nature, he exists in…

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The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.

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I think the greatest imagination we can exercise is one that imagines how someone else feels. Because you know how you feel, but so…

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A lover asked his beloved, Do you love yourself more than you love me? Beloved replied, I have died to myself and I live…

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One of the greatest attributes of jazz, I think, is that it is that open.

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God is compassionate and just, loving and holy, wrathful and forgiving. WE can't sideline His more difficult attributes to make room for the palatable…

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I'm Irish and always will be, but America has taught me so much. Maybe it's here in the U.S. that we find a healing,…

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“It is this spirit of godliness that will bring forth the attributes, the principles and the life style of godliness.”

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My Calvinism persuades me that we are open to God, in the sense that we are not delimited, not organisms with fixed attributes in…

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A pivotal spiritual attribute is that of self-mastery-th e strength to place reason over appetite. Self-mastery builds a strong conscience. And your conscience determines…

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I have often noticed that the two nuclear powers on the Indian subcontinent, India and Pakistan, attribute to Kashmiris an inferior intellect, a lineage,…

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