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Cat's Cradle
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Anyone unable to understand how a useful religion can be founded on lies will not understand this book either. So be it.
“Its impossible to initiate a rational dialogue with some one about beliefs and concepts if he has not acquired them through reason. It doesn't matter whether we are looking at God, race, or national pride.”
― The Angel's Game
― The Angel's Game
“What a mess the world is in,” cried the man, reading the news in his paper. “It seems that in the advanced stages of stupidity, a lack of ideas is compensated for by an excess of ideologies.”
― The Angel's Game
― The Angel's Game
“Myths and legends, either about divinities or the formation and history of peoples and races, began to look like pictures on a jigsaw puzzle, slightly different from one another but always built with the same pieces, though not in the same order.”
― The Angel's Game
― The Angel's Game
“It is a part of our nature to survive. Faith is an instinctive response to aspects of existence that we cannot explain by any other means, be it the moral void we perceive in the universe, the certainty of death, the mystery of the origin of things, the meaning of our lives, or the absence of meaning. These are basic and extremely simple aspects of existence, but our limitations prevent us from responding in an unequivocal way and for that reason we generate an emotional response, as a defense mechanism. It's pure biology.”
― The Angel's Game
― The Angel's Game
“I don't get why a person's smile is considered attractive. When someone smiles, they're showing their skeleton.”
― Tender Is the Flesh
― Tender Is the Flesh
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