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"Being, belief and reason are pure relations, which cannot be dealt with absolutely, and are not things but pure scholastic concepts, signs for understanding, not for worshipping, aids to awaken our attention, not to fetter it."
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"Fundamental belief consoled him for superficial irony."
"You cannot force someone to believe something they do not believe, you can only manage to force them to speak or act as if they do."
"Our group takes what I'll call a Post-Atheist stance. Our position is that god is a creation of human beings, who only exists because of the clap-hands-if-you-believe-in-fairies principle. If enough people were sensible enough not to clap hands, then this Tinker Bell god would die. However, unfortunately, billions of human beings are still prepared to defend their belief in some sort of god-fairy, and, as a result, god exists. What's worse is that he is now running amok."
"Religion is a non-alcoholic man's alcohol. Alcohol is a non-religious man's religion."
"Fanaticism is the only way to put an end to the doubts that constantly trouble the human soul."
"Night poured over the desert. It came suddenly, in purple. In the clear air, the stars drilled down out of the sky, reminding any thoughtful watcher that it is in the deserts and high places that religions are generated. When men see nothing but bottomless infinity over their heads they have always had a driving and desperate urge to find someone to put in the way."
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"If only I was as eloquent as Demosthenes, I would have to do no more than repeat a single word three times."
"Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misunderstanding of reason with itself."
"A writer who is in a hurry to be understood today or tomorrow runs the danger of being misunderstood the day after tomorrow."
"Everything the human being heard from the beginning, saw with its eyes, looked upon and touched with its hands was a living word; for God was the word."
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