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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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There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases…
— Zygmunt Bauman
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America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced…
— Louis D. Brandeis
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It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or…
— Thomas Carlyle
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To seek out in a world full of joy the one thing that is certain to give you pain, and hug it…
— Jean Giraudoux
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Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Human happiness has always its abatements; the brightest sunshine of success is not without a cloud.
— Samuel Johnson
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Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man…
— George Washington
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Employment is nature's physician, and is essential to human happiness.
— Galen
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School performance, public health, crime rates, clinical depression, tax compliance, philanthropy, race relations, community development, census returns, teen suicide, economic productivity, campaign…
— Robert D. Putnam
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Character gives us qualities, but it is in actions - what we do - that we are happy or the reverse. ...…
— Aristotle
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Human happiness, true prosperity and joyful living can only emerge from a life of elegant simplicity, embedded in the arts and crafts.
— Satish Kumar
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The establishment of our new Government seemed to be the last great experiment for promoting human happiness by reasonable compact in civil…
— George Washington
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