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When love and hate are both absent, everything becomes clear and undisguised. Make the slightest distinction, however, and heaven and earth are set infinitely apart. If you wish to see the truth, then hold no opinions for or against anything. To set up what you like against what you dislike is the disease of the mind. ↗

— Hsin Hsin Ming

#christianity #hate #life #living #love

Religion ist nichts anderes als die Lehre davon, wie man frei von Erkenntnis gehorcht [...]. ↗

— Juli Zeh

#religion #responsibility #religion

When in Reading Gaol he told me that the warders in the dock had been gentle and kind, but the visit of the chaplain in his first prison began with these words: 'Mr. Wilde, did you have morning prayers in your house?' 'I am sorry... I fear not.' 'You see where you are now! ↗

— Charles Ricketts

#empathy #oscar-wilde #religion #self-righteousness #religion

We hold the future still timidly, but perceive it for the first time as a function of our own action. ↗

— J.D. Bernal

#religion #space-exploration #religion

He who thinks we are to pitch our tent here, and have attained the utmost prospect of reformation that the mortal glass wherein we contemplate can show us, till we come to beatific vision, that man by this very opinion declares that he is yet far short of truth. ↗

— John Milton

#john-mitlon #religion #truth #religion

You can understand a philosophy thoroughly without having to follow it; but you understand religion only partially, that is, as a mere philosophy, unless you follow it. ↗

— Raheel Farooq

#reality #religion #religion

One can even buy a so-called Religion, which is really but common morality sanctified with flowers and music. Rob the Church of her accessories and what remains behind? ↗

— Kakuzō Okakura

#music

Le spectacle est la reconstruction matérielle de l'illusion religieuse. ↗

— Guy Debord

#philosophy #religion #religion

The old-time-religion and today's cutting-edge-religion have one thing in common - they're both religion. I want neither. ↗

— Steve McVey

#religion #steve-mcvey #traditonal-religion #religion

I hallowed out my Bible to put another, smaller Bible inside. ↗

— Christy Leigh Stewart

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