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"Nothing guarantees that reasonable people will agree about everything, of course, but the unreasonable are certain to be divided by their dogmas. It is time we recognized that this spirit of mutual inquiry, which is the foundation of all real science, is the very antithesis of religious faith."
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"I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die."
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"How well he's read, to reason against reading!"
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"No emotion is, in itself, a judgement; in that sense all emotions and sentiments are alogical. but they can be reasonable or unreasonable as they conform to Reason or fail to conform. The heart never takes the place of the head: but it can, and should, obey it."
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"It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into."
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"It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it."
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"But the single overwhelming reason why jails are bursting is longer sentences given for more crimes."
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"If some things don't make you lose your sense of reason, then you have none to lose."
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"I'm driven. I am. I'm driven for some reason. But I don't know where I'm going."
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"Pocahontas was the reason the Virginia colony didn't disappear, unlike some earlier attempts."
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"The reason we're so dangerous is because we're totally harmless."
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"Honesty can force any dysfunction in your life to the surface. Are you in an abusive relationship? A refusal to lie to others " How did you get that bruise? " would oblige you to come to grips with this situation very quickly. Do you have a problem with drugs or alcohol? Lying is the lifeblood of addiction. If we have no recourse to lies, our lives can unravel only so far without others noticing.Telling the truth can also reveal ways in which we want to grow but haven't."
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"Religious moderation is the product of secular knowledge and scriptural ignorance."
Spiritual
"By failing to live by the letter of the texts, while tolerating the irrationality of those who do, religious moderates betray faith and reason equally."
Ethics
"Just as there is no such thing as Christian physics or Muslim Algebra, we will see tht there is no such thing as Christian or Muslim morality."
Philosophy
"I don't think there's an interesting boundary between philosophy and science. Science is totally beholden to philosophy. There are philosophical assumptions in science and there's no way to get around that."
Science
"It would not be too strong to say that I felt sane for the first time in my life. And yet the change in my consciousness seemed entirely straightforward. I was simply talking to my friend-about what, I don't recall-and realized that I had ceased to be concerned about myself. I was no longer anxious, self-critical, guarded by irony, in competition, avoiding embarrassment, ruminating about the past and future, or making any other gesture of thought or attention that separated me from him. I was no longer watching myself through another person's eyes."
Psychology
"False encouragement is a kind of theft: it steals time, energy, and motivation a person could put toward some other purpose."
Self
"Faith is the mortar that fills the cracks in the evidence and the gaps in the logic, and thus it is faith that keeps the whole terrible edifice of religious certainty still looming dangerously over our world."
Philosophy
"We rely on faith only in the context of claims for which there is no sufficient sensory or logical evidence."
Faith
"The only differences between a cult and a religion are the numbers of adherents and the degree to which they are marginalized by the rest of society."
Society
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