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Timequake

by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

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May 12, 2015 07:10AM

“The German philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, who had syphilis, said that only a person of deep faith could afford the luxury of religious skepticism. Humanists, by and large educated, comfortably middle-class persons with rewarding lives like mine, find rapture enough in secular knowledge and hope. Most people can't.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Timequake

tags: faith, hope, humanism, knowledge, nietzsche, philosophy, religion, secularism, skepticism

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“I will say, too, that lovemaking, if sincere, is one of the best ideas Satan put in the apple she gave to the serpent to give to Eve. The best idea in that apple, though, is making jazz.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Timequake

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