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Gregor flushed as he went on: "The entire content of the Confesions could be put into one single sentence in the book: when Augustine addresses God, saying: 'Thou hast made us for Thyself and our heart is unquiet until it rests in Thee.' This sentence, my lords and friends, is immortal. It contains the very heart of religion. ↗

— Louis de Wohl

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I promise you it doesn’t matter what you believe, how strongly you live your beliefs, or how true your beliefs are. Somebody else, somewhere, thinks you are in the wrong. Somebody else, somewhere, thinks your beliefs are senseless or illogical. Somebody else, somewhere, thinks you have it all wrong. In fact, there are a lot of people in this world who do. ↗

— Dan Pearce

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[T]o believe in a god is in one way to express a willingness to believe in anything. Whereas to reject the belief is by no means to profess belief in nothing. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

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Nadie se preocupa por lo que va a ocurrir dentro de millones de años. Aunque crean que se están preocupando por ello, en realidad se engañan a sí mismos. Se preocupan por cosas mucho más mundanas aunque sólo sea una mala digestión; pero nadie es realmente desdichado al pensar lo que le va a ocurrir a este mundo dentro de millones de años. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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Existe este hecho curioso: cuanto más intensa ha sido la religión de cualquier periodo, y más profunda la creencia dogmática, han sido mayor la crueldad y peores las circunstancias. En las llamadas edades de la fe, cuando los hombres realmente creían en la religión cristiana en toda su integridad hubo la Inquisición con sus torturas; hubo muchas desdichadas mujeres quemadas por brujas; y toda clase de crueldades practicadas en toda clase de gente en nombre de la religión. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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A new type of superstition has got hold of people's minds, the worship of the state. People demand the exercise of the methods of coercion and compulsion, of violence and threat. Woe to anybody who does not bend his knee to the fashionable idols! ↗

— Ludwig von Mises

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Disaat teman, pacar dan disekellingmu melupakanmu, ingatlah bahwa Allah yg tidak akan membiarkan kamu sendiri. ↗

— Azizirrahim Putra Widanih

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Then there was Buddha meddling in, telling all of the Hindu, Hebrew, Christian and Islamic gods and demons that they were nothing more than unenlightened fear induced figments of nirvana-starved mortals. ↗

— Andrew James Pritchard

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A bit like religion, lots of rumor but no real proof that it existed. ↗

— Bethany Knox

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I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, the one great instinct of revenge, for which no means are venomous enough, or secret, subterranean and small enough – I call it the one immortal blemish upon the human race. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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