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"The objections to religion are of two sorts -- intellectual and moral. The intellectual objection is that there is no reason to suppose any religion true, the moral objection is that religious precepts date from a time when men were more cruel than they are and therefore tend to perpetuate inhumanities which the moral conscience of the age would otherwise outgrow."

"Religion is love; in no case is it logic."

"It is important to abide in the word of God, pray ceaselessly, and fast regularly."

"When Hegel later became a man of influence' he insisted that the Jews should be granted equal rights because civic rights belong to man because he is a man and not on account of his ethnic origins or his religion."

"As long as this belief, 'I am the doer' is not gone, one has not yet attained an iota of exact religion. He is still in the auspicious-inauspicious [shubh-ashubh] state."

"Ever since boyhood I've made a religion of keeping in shape by regular, conscientious exercise."

"No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism."
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"He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas."


"It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists."


"The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition."
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