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“I do know that the slickest way to lie is to tell the right amount of truth--then shut up.”
― Stranger in a Strange Land
― Stranger in a Strange Land
“The Savage interrupted him. "But isn't it natural to feel there's a God?"
"You might as well ask if it's natural to do up one's trousers with zippers," said the Controller sarcastically. "You remind me of another of those old fellows called Bradley. He defined philosophy as the finding of bad reason for what one believes by instinct. As if one believed anything by instinct! One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them. Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons–that's philosophy. People believe in God because they've been conditioned to.”
― Brave New World
"You might as well ask if it's natural to do up one's trousers with zippers," said the Controller sarcastically. "You remind me of another of those old fellows called Bradley. He defined philosophy as the finding of bad reason for what one believes by instinct. As if one believed anything by instinct! One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them. Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons–that's philosophy. People believe in God because they've been conditioned to.”
― Brave New World
“If Jesus had been a hunchback, they could hardly have nailed him to the cross.”
― The Tin Drum
― The Tin Drum
“Keep your dreams, you never know when you might need them.”
― The Shadow of the Wind
― The Shadow of the Wind
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