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"The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgement passed on their failures by the opinion of the world."
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"I have read the bible, seen its errors and perfections, but the bits of lie contained therein has contaminated the truth."

"One of the reasons God did not make a lover for Himself when He made one for Adam is because He knew that fewer people would take Him seriously once He had an ex."

"A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows."

"Religion comes not where reign fundamentalism and authoritarianism."
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"'Pure experience' is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories."

"The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals."

"To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one's being added to that being."

"Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune."

"Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!"

"Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout."
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