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I can’t tell you what it really is, I can only tell you what it feels like.
“It is said that men may not be the dreams of the god, but rather that the gods are the dreams of men.”
― Cosmos
― Cosmos
“The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.”
― The God Delusion: A Study of Religious Belief and Skepticism
― The God Delusion: A Study of Religious Belief and Skepticism
“He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."
[On British Labour politician Stafford Cripps.]”
― Wealth, War and Wisdom
[On British Labour politician Stafford Cripps.]”
― Wealth, War and Wisdom
“You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.”
― The Letters of John and Abigail Adams
― The Letters of John and Abigail Adams
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