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“A jealous lover of human liberty, and deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that, if God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him.”
― God and the State
― God and the State
“Through the Unknown, we'll find the New”
― Les Fleurs du Mal
― Les Fleurs du Mal
“We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.”
― The God Delusion
― The God Delusion
“Flesh is willing, but the Soul requires
Sisyphean patience for its song,
Time, Hippocrates remarked, is short
and Art is long.”
― Les Fleurs du Mal
Sisyphean patience for its song,
Time, Hippocrates remarked, is short
and Art is long.”
― Les Fleurs du Mal
“Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.”
― Dune
― Dune
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