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Mysticism
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wouldn’t you like to have a taste of this intensity? Wouldn’t you like to be lifted up and out of yourself into a sheer feeling of aliveness?
“A secular morality teaches that what man thinks, says, and does lives after him and influences for good or ill future generations. This is a higher, nobler, and greater, incentive to righteousness than any life of personal reward or fear of punishment in a future life.”
― The Necessity Of Atheism
― The Necessity Of Atheism
“In reality people would sacrifice anything rather than their negative emotions.”
― The Psychology of Man’s Possible Evolution
― The Psychology of Man’s Possible Evolution
“Big Data has announced the end of the person who possesses free will.”
― Psychopolitik: Neoliberalismus und die neuen Machttechniken
― Psychopolitik: Neoliberalismus und die neuen Machttechniken
“A man who survives himself despises himself without acknowledging as much, sometimes without even knowing as much.”
― The Trouble With Being Born
― The Trouble With Being Born
“Secularism can no longer be seen as a mere philosophical word or ideology of the books. Let me give you a simple example. If you are thirsty and you drink a glass of water, is that act of drinking water a philosophy, or is it a plain, ordinary, necessary act of preservation? Likewise, secularism is no more a philosophy, than drinking water is. Secularism is an act of preserving humanity in the humans.”
― Mad About Humans: World Maker's Almanac
― Mad About Humans: World Maker's Almanac
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