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The fear of God is not the beginning of wisdom. The fear of God is the death of wisdom. Skepticism and doubt lead to study and investigation, and investigation is the beginning of wisdom. The modern world is the child of doubt and inquiry, as the ancient world was the child of fear and faith.
-- Clarence Darrow |
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Many Christians base the belief of a soul and God upon the Bible. Strictly speaking, there is no such book. To make the Bible, sixty-six books are bound into one volume. These books are written by many people at different times, and no one knows the time or the identity of any author. Some of the books were written by several authors at various times. These books contain all sorts of contradictory concepts of life and morals and the origin of things. Between the first and the last nearly a thousand years intervened, a longer time than has passed since the discovery of America by Columbus.
-- Clarence Darrow |
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I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.
-- Clarence Darrow |
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I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose.
-- Clarence Darrow |
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The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him.
-- Claude Levi-Strauss |
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What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.
-- Colette |
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Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because they imagine it is the one thing that stops women laughing at them. In it they can reduce women to the status of objects. That is the great distinction between the sexes: men see objects, women see the relationship between objects. Whether the objects need each other, love each other, match each other. [...] War is a psychosis caused by an inability to see relationships...
-- Conchis |
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Am I crazy? Or am I so sane that you blew your mind?
-- Cosmo Kramer |
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Reason is highly illogical, because logic makes no sense to me.
-- Craig Pearlman |
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It was man who first made men believe in gods.
-- Critias (403-480 B.C.E.) |
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There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say.
-- Cyril Connoly |
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This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
-- Dalai Lama |
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Nothing is bigger than life. There's nothing noble in death. What's noble about never seeing the sunshine again? What's noble about having your legs and arms blown off? What's noble about being an idiot? What's noble about being blind and deaf and dumb? What's noble about being dead?
-- Dalton Trumbo |
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You can cite a hundred references to show that the biblical God is a bloodthirsty tyrant, but if they can dig up two or three verses that say "God is love," they will claim that *you* are taking things out of context!
-- Dan barker |
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You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help?
-- Dan barker |
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