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Religions vary in their degree of idiocy, but I reject them all.
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I condemn false prophets, I condemn the effort to take away the power of rational decision, to drain people of their free…
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If this is your God, he's not very impressive. He has so many psychological problems; he's so insecure. He demands worship every…
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The glory of creation is in its infinite diversity.
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For Star Trek proves, as faulty as individual episodes could be, is that the much-maligned common man and common woman has an…
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I believe in humanity. We are an incredible species. We're still just a child creature, we're still being nasty to each other.…
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The Strength of a civilization is not measured by its ability to fight wars, but rather by its ability to prevent them.
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We have within reach, now, the attainment of almost every dream of mankind.
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For me science fiction is a way of thinking, a way of logic that bypasses a lot of nonsense. It allows people…
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I think God is as much a basic ingredient in the universe as neutrons and positrons. This is the prime force, when…
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They said God was on high and he controlled the world and therefore we must pray against Satan. Well, if God controls…
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You can't take this speck of dust in this midst of all this incredible panorama of birth and complexifying and say...this is…
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William James describes a man who got the experience from laughing-gas; whenever he was under its influence, he knew the secret of…
— Bertrand Russell
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I am also greatly indebted to Bergson, William James, and John Dewey. One of my preoccupations has been to rescue their type…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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PICARD: There is no greater challenge than the study of philosophy. WESLEY: But William James won't be in my Starfleet exams. PICARD:…
— Gene Roddenberry
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William James was not a prophet. He was a philosopher whose philosophy reflected his profound humanity.
— Stanley Hauerwas
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When he died, Emerson was thought of as the representative American writer par excellence, and his point of view was still so…
— Howard Mumford Jones
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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. --William James
— William James
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This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it. --William James
— William James
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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. --William James
— William James
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Belief creates the actual fact. --William James
— William James
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Coleridge observes that all men are born Aristotelians or Platonists. The latter feel that classes, orders, and genres arerealities; the former, that…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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