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“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: A Study of Religious Belief and Skepticism
― The God Delusion: A Study of Religious Belief and Skepticism
“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
“Every man has his excuses, and the more vile the man becomes, the more touching the story has to be. What is my story now, I wonder?”
― The Blade Itself
― The Blade Itself
“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
“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
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