"It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into."
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"A god whose creation is so imperfect that he must be continually adjusting it to make it work properly seems to me a god of relatively low order, hardly worthy of any worship."
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"The shell must be cracked apart if what is in it is to come out, for if you want the kernel you must break the shell. And therefore if you want to discover nature's nakedness you must destroy its symbols, and the farther you get in the nearer you come to its essence. When you come to the One that gathers all things up into itself, there you must stay."
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"There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion."
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"Religion is, as it were, the calm bottom of the sea at its deepest point, which remains calm however high the waves on the surface may be."
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"If any spirit created the universe, it is malevolent, not benevolent."
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"A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it; and one's religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification."
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"If scientific analysis were conclusively to demonstrate certain claims in Buddhism to be false, then we must accept the findings of science and abandon those claims."
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"Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do."
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"Die before you die, there is no chance after."
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"It is easier to suppose that the universe has existed for all eternity than to conceive a being beyond its limits capable of creating it."
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"Is what is moral commanded by God because it is moral, or is it moral because it is commanded by God?"
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"I call him free who is led solely by reason."
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"Men would never be superstitious, if they could govern all their circumstances by set rules, or if they were always favoured by fortune: but being frequently driven into straits where rules are useless, and being often kept fluctuating pitiably between hope and fear by the uncertainty of fortune's greedily coveted favours, they are consequently for the most part, very prone to credulity."
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"Spirituality is meant to take us beyond our tribal identity into a domain of awareness that is more universal."
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"No one has the right to tell me what to do because he has a divine warrant."
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"The easiest way to establish a dictatorship is to claim you are God's representative on earth."
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"It is the things for which there is no evidence that are believed with passion."
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"One is often told that it is a very wrong thing to attack religion, because religion makes men virtuous. So I am told; I have not noticed it."
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"The greatest miracle of the Bible is that the prophets of Israel could keep a religion as clean as a hounds tooth amid all the corruption and idolatry of the nations surrounding them."
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