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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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It is on the acceptance or rejection of the theory of the Unity of all in Nature, in its ultimate Essence, that…
— H. P. Blavatsky
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Animals are nicer than humans and they're conscious beings. If you stick your grandmother in an oven, she will probably be tasty.…
— Steven Morrissey
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Yet, the Universe is real enough to the conscious beings in it, which are as unreal as it is itself.
— Helena
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If you didn't have any conscious beings in the world, there really wouldn't be morality but with consciousness that you have it.
— Roger Penrose
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Nobody can possibly be so hungry that they need to take a life in order to feel satisfied - they don't after…
— Steven Morrissey
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The greatest unsolved mysteries are the mysteries of our existence as conscious beings in a small corner of a vast universe.
— Freeman Dyson
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Eventually, I believe, current attempts to understand the mind by analogy with man-made computers that can perform superbly some of the same…
— Thomas Nagel
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Science has revealed a universe that is vast, ancient, violent, strange, and beautiful, a universe of almost infinite variety and possibility one…
— Leonard Mlodinow
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Those truly committed to liberation must reject the banking concept in its entirety, adopting instead a concept of women and men as…
— Paulo Freire
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There is no doubt that there is a huge difference between human and nonhuman animals. But what we are overlooking is the…
— Peter Singer
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The moment we realize that the only things we can intelligibly value are actual and potential changes in the experience of conscious…
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