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The problem with religion, because it's been sheltered from criticism, is that it allows people to believe en masse what only idiots or lunatics could believe in isolation. ↗

— Sam Harris

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He took in the squeaky music, the vulgar and pining melodies, because passion immobilizes good taste and seriously considers what soberly would be thought of as funny and to be resented. ↗

— Thomas Mann

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Men are made for happiness, and he who is completely happy has the right to say to himself, 'I am doing God's will on earth. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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Weariness that wants to reach the ultimate with one leap, with one fatal leap, a poor ignorant weariness that does not want to want any more: this created all gods and afterworlds. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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We, ignorant of ourselves, Beg often our own harms, which the wise powers Deny us for our good; so find we profit By losing of our prayers. ↗

— William Shakespeare

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Religion is like drugs, it destroys the thinking mind. ↗

— George Carlin

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Christianity is the most perverted system that ever shone on man. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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Do you believe in God, doctor?" No - but what does that really mean? I'm fumbling in the dark, struggling to make something out. But I've long ceased finding that original. ↗

— Albert Camus

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You can never talk religion on network TV. It makes too many people angry. You can talk about sex. ↗

— Craig Ferguson

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Do not belive in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. Do not believe in anything because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason, and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it. ↗

— Buddha Gotama

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