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“Unable to bring himself to believe in a God who offers salvation, the philosopher is above all one who believes that by understanding the world, by understanding ourselves and others as far our intelligence permits, we shall succeed in overcoming fear, through clear-sightedness rather than blind faith.”
― A Brief History of Thought: A Philosophical Guide to Living
― A Brief History of Thought: A Philosophical Guide to Living
“Shakespeare has Julius Caesar reflect that: Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.”
― How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter
― How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter
“Philosophy wants us to get ourselves out of trouble by utilising our own resources,”
― A Brief History of Thought: A Philosophical Guide to Living
― A Brief History of Thought: A Philosophical Guide to Living
“Humankind paid for its lofty vision and industrious hands with backaches and stiff necks.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“The average Christian believes in the monotheist God, but also in the dualist Devil, in polytheist saints, and in animist ghosts. Scholars of religion have a name for this simultaneous avowal of different and even contradictory ideas and the combination of rituals and practices taken from different sources. It’s called syncretism. Syncretism might, in fact, be the single great world religion.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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