"No student of Chinese history can say that the Chinese are incapable of religious experience, even when judged by the standards of medieval Europe or pious India."

History, Experience, Europe, Religious

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"Robbing people of their actual history is the same as robbing them of part of themselves. It's a crime."Fuka-Eri thought about that for a moment.Tengo went on, "Our memory is made up of our individual memories and our collective memories. The two are intimately linked. And history is our collective memory. If our collective memory is taken from us - is rewritten - we lose the ability to sustain our true selves."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

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"Mankind, not womankind, has slaughtered more humans in the name of God and Religion than for any other reason."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

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"Many if not most slaves would have each readily jumped, and many if not most slaves would each readily jump, at the opportunity to be a master, if such an opportunity presents or had presented itself."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"Most of Jesus' life is told through the four Gospels of the New Testament, known as the Canonical gospels, written by Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. These are not biographies in the modern sense but accounts with allegorical intent. They are written to engender faith in Jesus as the Messiah and the incarnation of God, and not to provide factual data about Jesus's life. This left the door of exaggeration open. And through that door all kinds of mystical non-sense crept in and made place right alongside the good philosophical teachings of Jesus."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

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"It must be the full confession by Christendom of Christendom's specific contribution to the sum of human cruelty and treachery."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know."

George Eliot, British Author

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"There probably was a time when the idea of having a toilet inside a house was repulsive."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"All the bloodsheds in human history have been caused by men, not women."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

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"History isn't just the story of bad people doing bad things. It's quite as much a story of people trying to do good things. But somehow, something goes wrong."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"The last time everyone loved or at least liked everyone was when the world had a population of about 4."

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"The rise of the dramas in the thirteenth century, and the rise of the great novels in a later period, together with their frank glorification of love and the joys of life, may be called the Third Renaissance."

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"Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility."

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