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“We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.”
― Island
― Island
“We are prone to overestimate how much we understand about the world and to underestimate the role of chance in events.”
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
“If God were alive today, He'd be an atheist.”
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“Anyone unable to understand how useful religion can be founded on lies will not understand this book either.”
― Cat’s Cradle
― Cat’s Cradle
“Nobody needs to go anywhere else. We are all, if we only knew it, already there. If I only knew who in fact I am, I should cease to behave as what I think I am; and if I stopped behaving as what I think I am, I should know who I am. What in fact I am, if only the Manichee I think I am would allow me to know it, is the reconciliation of yes and no lived out in total acceptance and the blessed experience of Not-Two. In religion all words are dirty words. Anybody who gets eloquent about Buddha, or God, or Christ, ought to have his mouth washed out with carbolic soap.”
― Island
― Island
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