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A man full of faith is simply one who has lost the capacity for clear and realistic thought.
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Religion deserves no more respect than a pile of garbage.
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When I die, I shall be content to vanish into nothingness.... No show, however good, could conceivably be good forever I do…
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People say we need religion when what they really mean is we need police.
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Everyman is thoroughly happy twice in his life, just after he has met his first love, and just after he has left…
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Well, I tell you, if I have been wrong in my agnosticism, when I die I'll walk up to God in a…
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The Old Testament, as everyone who has looked into it is aware, drips with blood; there is, indeed, no more bloody chronicle…
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Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt.
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To every complex question there is a simple answer and it is wrong...
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The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a…
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I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind - that its modest and greatly overestimated services on the…
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Goverment is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are…
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The scientist who yields anything to theology, however slight, is yielding to ignorance and false pretenses, and as certainly as if he…
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As God talked with Arjuna, so will He talk with you. As He lifted up the spirit and consciousness of Arjuna, so…
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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His epitaph: This tomb hold Diophantus, Ah, what a marvel! And the tomb tells scientifically the measure of his life. God vouchsafed…
— Unknown Author
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If a person claims that he really loves someone, evidence is asked from him. And that evidence is the giving away of…
— Shams Tabrizi
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... for our sake loosing within Himself the bonds of bodily birth, He granted us through spiritual birth, according to our own…
— Maximus the Confessor
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What mattered to her was that she loved God, whether or not He granted her the consolation and joy of His felt…
— Brian Kolodiejchuk
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Sometimes bad things happens and we will moan to God and ask, Why did he left us? forgetting that he granted us…
— Simphiwe Scientist Dumi
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