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Words do not express thoughts very well; every thing immediately becomes a little different, a little distorted, a little foolish. And yet it also pleases me and seems right that what is of value and wisdom of one man seems nonsense to another. ↗

— Gautama Buddha

#religion #religion

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#atheism #philosophy #religion #religion

Nothing optional—from homosexuality to adultery—is ever made punishable unless those who do the prohibiting (and exact the fierce punishments) have a repressed desire to participate. As Shakespeare put it in King Lear, the policeman who lashes the whore has a hot need to use her for the very offense for which he plies the lash. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#closeted #homosexuality #hypocrisy #prohibition #religion

I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world and do not find in our particular superstition [Christianity] one redeeming feature. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#organized-religion #philosophy #politics #religion #religion

It doesn't seem to me that this fantastically marvelous universe, this tremendous range of time and space and different kinds of animals, and all the different planets, and all these atoms with all their motions, and so on, all this complicated thing can merely be a stage so that God can watch human beings struggle for good and evil - which is the view that religion has. The stage is too big for the drama. ↗

— Richard P. Feynman

#philosophy #science #religion

God is an ever receding pocket of scientific ignorance. ↗

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

#philosophy #religion #science #skepticism #religion

down with hell and heaven and all the religious fuss infinity pleased our parents one inch looks good to us ↗

— E.E. Cummings

#poetry #religion #religion

It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley; but not at all so to believe or not in God. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#god #knowledge #philosophy #religion #religion

the body is wiser than its inhabitants. the body is the soul. the body is god’s messenger. ↗

— Erica Jong

#god #health #mind #philosophy #religion

There is no justice in the laws of nature, no term for fairness in the equations of motion. The Universe is neither evil, nor good, it simply does not care. The stars don't care, or the Sun, or the sky. But they don't have to! WE care! There IS light in the world, and it is US! ↗

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

#morality #morals #philosophy #religion #nature