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While a case can be made for intelligent design, I can't figure out why some Christians are so thrilled about that possibility. First of all, it doesn't prove there's a God. If anything, intelligent design lends support to some form of pantheism that defines God as immanent within nature. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#anything #case #christians #defines #design

Virtue consisted in avoiding scandal and venereal disease. ↗

— Robert Cecil

#consisted #disease #scandal #venereal #virtue

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion. ↗

— Albert Camus

#absolutely free #act #become #deal #existence

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions. ↗

— Albert Camus

#desire #dictate #his #hope #live

We call first truths those we discover after all the others. ↗

— Albert Camus

#call #discover #first #others #those

Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world. ↗

— Vincent Canby

#between #connections #curiosity #else #exploits

One should use praise to recognize what one is not. ↗

— Elias Canetti

#recognize #should #use

Whether or not God is dead: it is impossible to keep silent about him who was there for so long. ↗

— Elias Canetti

#dead #god #god is dead #him #impossible

Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day's insolence. ↗

— Elias Canetti

#day #insolence #newspaper #occupies #space

There is no doubt: the study of man is just beginning, at the same time that his end is in sight. ↗

— Elias Canetti

#doubt #end #his #just #man