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“But everywhere the religious dance came before the religious hymn, and man was a ritualist before he could speak.”
― Heretics
― Heretics
“Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood - never.”
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“The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.”
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“A common response in surveys of religious attitudes is to say something like, 'I don't go to church, but I have my own personal idea of God.' This kind of statement makes me in turn react like a philosopher. Soppy, I cry. You have your own personal idea of God, but does God have His own personal idea of you? Because that's what matters. Whether He's an old man with a white beard sitting in the sky, or a life force, or a disinterested prime mover, or a clockmaker, or a woman, or a nebulous moral force, or nothing at all, what counts is what He, She, It, or Nothing thinks of you rather than you of them.”
― Nothing to Be Frightened Of
― Nothing to Be Frightened Of
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