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إن القرآن لم يذر وسيلة موصلة إلى إنعاش العقل وتحرير الفكر إلا وتذرع بها، فهو إذا تحاكم فإلى العقل، وإذا حاج فبحكم العقل، وإذا سخط فعلى معطلي العقل، وإذا رضي فعن أولي العقل ↗

— عبد العزيز جاويش

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Well, I think the Yoruba gods are truthful. Truthful in the sense that i consider religion and the construct of deities simply an extension of human qualities taken, if you like, to the nth degree. i mistrust gods who become so separated from humanity that enormous crimes can be committed in their names. i prefer gods who can be brought down to earth and judged, if you like. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

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Every man knows that he will die: and nobody believes it. On that paradox stand not only a host of religions but the entity of a sane being. ↗

— John Myers Myers

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(Prayer is) a fictitious consolation invented by those who have everything in order to keep those who have nothing contented. I belong to the bourgeoisie and I know the only reason my class bothers to show the lower classes that distant paradise full of ineffable pleasures that will one day be theirs is to divert attention from their own bulging coffers and from the abundance of their harvests. ↗

— Eça de Queirós

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I wish all those who've found God, would tell the rest of us where he's been hiding. ↗

— Quentin R. Bufogle

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Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly. ↗

— Erica Jong

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Religious belief is without reason and without dignity, and its record is near-universally dreadful. ↗

— Martin Amis

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We are our own gods. ↗

— Zeena Schreck

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Let us never measure our religion by that of others, and think we are doing enough if we have gone beyond our neighbors. ↗

— J.C. Ryle

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Reverence the highest, have patience with the lowest. Let this day's performance of the meanest duty be thy religion. Are the stars too distant, pick up the pebble that lies at thy feet, and from it learn the all. ↗

— Margaret Fuller

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