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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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Liebig was not a teacher in the ordinary sense of the word. Scientifically productive himself in an unusual degree, and rich in…
— Hermann Kolbe
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Creation,' in the ordinary sense of the word, is perfectly conceivable. I find no difficulty in conceiving that, at some former period,…
— Thomas Huxley
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I have a contract but it's not a commitment in the ordinary sense. It's our ongoing conversation.
— Diane Sawyer
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Asking questions is an essential part of police investigation. In the ordinary sense a police officer is free to ask a person…
— Anthony Kennedy
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I'm not trying to sign people up to a creed, I'm much more interested in the people that disagree. These ideas are…
— Terence McKenna
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AA is no success story in the ordinary sense of the word. It is a story of suffering transmuted, under grace, into…
— Bill W.
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Happiness in the ordinary sense is not what one needs in life, though one is right to aim at it. The true…
— E. M. Forster
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Art is not tame, and Nature is not wild, in the ordinary sense. A perfect work of man's art would also be…
— Henry David Thoreau
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The denial of "self" challenges only the notion of a static self independent of body and mind-not the ordinary sense of ourself…
— Stephen Batchelor
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Our soul is not united to our body in the ordinary sense of these terms. It is immediately and directly united to…
— Nicolas Malebranche
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We all travel the milky way together, trees and men; but it never occurred to me until this storm-day, while swinging in…
— John Muir
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I was not content to believe in a personal devil and serve him, in the ordinary sense of the word. I wanted…
— Aleister Crowley
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