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The more we intellectualize, the more imprisoned we become.
“So yes, religion has caused and continues to cause some of the worst violence in history. And yes, it has used God to justify it. So if we mean by God the loving creator of the universe, then either he doesn’t exist or religion has got him wrong. Either way, religion should make us wary. That doesn’t necessarily mean we should abandon it altogether. We may decide to stick with it but to do so with humility, admitting the evil it has done as well as the good. It’s up to us.”
― A Little History of Religion
― A Little History of Religion
“a person who, as the line went, would live in many places and die everywhere.”
― Warlight
― Warlight
“I feel at home in the entire world, wherever
there are clouds and birds and human tears”
― The Letters of Rosa Luxemburg
there are clouds and birds and human tears”
― The Letters of Rosa Luxemburg
“Parents' imaginations build frameworks out of their own hopes and regrets into which children seldom grow, but instead, contrary as trees, lean sideways out of the architecture, blown by a fatal wind their parents never envisaged.”
― By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept
― By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept
“I suppose we choose whatever life we feel safest in;”
― Warlight
― Warlight
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