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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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"People consider Islam as the best religion of world; I wonder if best of them is that much worse, I am really proud of being an Atheist."
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"...he said firmly, "God can help you. All the men I've seen in your position turned to Him in their time of trouble." "Obviously," I replied, "they were at liberty to do so, if they felt like it." I, however, didn't want to be helped, and I hadn't time to work up interest for something that didn't interest me."
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"To get something from nothing means God will do everything and people don't have to do anything."
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"For an atheist you will be always considered as a human no matter what, but for a religious if you don't belong with them, you are always an infidel."
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"In one word, Queequeg, said I, rather digressively; hell is an idea first born on an undigested apple-dumpling; and since then perpetuated through the hereditary dyspepsias nurtured by Ramadans."
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"The skeptic says that the believer has lost his own mind under God. On the contrary, it is the people who follow God who are most like his children, who willingly and consciously walk in his will; but those who oppose him oppose him vainly and at their own expense, and, figuratively, seem to be more like his tools. They don't diminish his glory, but instead he still manages to use them in ways of unconsciously carrying out his will."
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"Many of us are literally prone to believing the most blatantly nonsensical untruths. There are some opinions and some beliefs so incredibly moronic, you actually feel stupid for not believing them; and it's probably because in giving the benefit of the doubt you self-doubt, you convince yourself into lame passivity and blind acceptance, you tell yourself, 'Maybe I'm just missing something here."
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"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."
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"Beware of the man whose God is in the skies."
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"I'm agnostic," I told him. "I'd be an atheist, except I believe in hedging my bets."
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"Nature is a book, a letter, a fairy tale (in the philosophical sense) or whatever you want to call it."
Nature
"All human wisdom works and has worries and grief as reward."
Wisdom
"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."
Belief
"A writer who is in a hurry to be understood today or tomorrow runs the danger of being misunderstood the day after tomorrow."
Being
"Indeed, if a chief question does remain: how is the power to think possible? - The power to think right and left, before and without, with and above experience? then it does not take a deduction to prove the genealogical priority of language."
Power
"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."
God
"The thirst for vengeance was the beautiful nature which Homer imitated."
Nature
"What good to me is the festive garment of freedom when I am in a slave's smock at home?"
Home
"Our reason arises, at the very least, from this twofold lesson of sensuous revelations and human testimonies."
Reason
"Thus the public use of reason and freedom is nothing but a dessert, a sumptuous dessert."
Freedom
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