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The general purpose of this book is to suggest that the science of psychology is not the mass of dreary and indefinite generalities of which it sometimes perhaps seems to be made up; to suggest that, especially when studied in relation to
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“I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.”
― John Cage”
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“If you start reading a book and you don't like it you always have the option of shutting it. At this point it loses its capacity to offend you.”
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“Everybody has the right to form their own opinion and read what they like and come to their own conclusion about it... I trust the reader.”
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“I have nothing to say, and I am saying it, and that is poetry.”
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“If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences. With such an honest and inflexible openness to evidence, they could not fail to receive any real truth which might be manifesting itself around them. The fact that religionists do not follow this honourable course, but cheat at their game by invoking juvenile quasi-hypnosis, is enough to destroy their pretensions in my eyes even if their absurdity were not manifest in every other direction.”
― Against Religion: The Atheist Writings of H.P. Lovecraft
― Against Religion: The Atheist Writings of H.P. Lovecraft
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