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My concern with religion is that it allows us by the millions to believe what only lunatics or idiots could believe on…
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While religious tolerance is surely better than religious war, tolerance is not without its liabilities. Our fear of provoking religious hatred has…
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As an atheist, I am angry that we live in a society in which the plain truth cannot be spoken without offending…
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It's not so much religion per se, it's false certainty that worries me, and religion just has more than its fair share…
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Spiritual life can certainly follow the pattern one sees in the fake martial arts, with most teachers making nebulous and magical claims…
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Everything we do is for the purpose of altering consciousness. We form friendships so that we can feel certain emotions, like love,…
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I consistently encounter people in academic settings and scientists and journalists who feel that you can't say that anyone is wrong in…
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Many scientists have been drawn to Buddhism out of a sense that the Western tradition has delivered an impoverished conception of basic,…
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Science is the most durable and nondivisive way of thinking about the human circumstance. It transcends cultural, national, and political boundaries. You…
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To speak specifically of our problem with the Muslim world, we are meandering into a genuine clash of civilizations, and we're deluding…
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Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.
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There's no way to reconcile Islam with Christianity. This difference of opinion admits of compromise as much as a coin toss does.
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A Senegalese poet said 'In the end we will conserve only what we love. We love only what we understand, and we…
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We are wont to see friendship solely as a phenomenon of intimacy in which the friends open their hearts to each other…
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The awake share a common world, but the asleep turn aside into private worlds.
— Heraclitus
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The waking have one common world, but the sleeping turn aside each into a world of his own
— Heraclitus
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The Internet is the hope of an integrated world without frontiers, a common world without controlling owners, a world of opportunities and…
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The composition of a common world would be the definition of politics.
— Bruno Latour
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The only thing that permits human beings to collaborate with one another in a truly open-ended way is their willingness to have…
— Sam Harris
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All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a…
— Plutarch
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Actual life was chaos, but there was something terribly logical in the imagination. It was the imagination that set remorse to dog…
— Oscar Wilde
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In the common world of fact the wicked were not punished, nor the good rewarded. Success was given to the strong, failure…
— Oscar Wilde
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Education is the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough to assume responsibility for it, and by the…
— Hannah Arendt
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He existed a step or two to one side of the common world, largely out of sight, a shadow, all but invisible.…
— James Sallis
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