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تدرك السياسة, وخصوصاً حين تكون قامعة مستبدة، أن العقل المنفتح غير المقيد هو أخطر ما يتهددها؛ وذلك من حيث يؤشر علي أن نقيضها من الحكم الرشيد هو المؤدي- وليس سواه- إلي تحقيق صالح المجموع، ومن هنا ما تسعي إليه، علي الدوام، من إزاحته وإبعاده. وإذ تدرك استحالة إنجاز هذا الإنجاز بما تمتلك من وسائل الترويع والبطش، فإنها تتوسل بالدين والشرع لتضعهما في مواجهة معه، وللغرابة، فإن ذلك لا ينتهي إلي إسكات صوت العقل فحسب، بل إلي تهديد منظومتي الدين والشرع علي نحو كامل. ↗

— علي مبروك

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My point, once again, is not that those ancient people told literal stories and we are now smart enough to take them symbolically, but that they told them symbolically and we are now dumb enough to take them literally. ↗

— John Dominic Crossan

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Earth is a homicide victim. We lose our children. There are wars. Disease. And God comes strolling by like a cosmic Billie Burke. ↗

— William Peter Blatty

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The leaf of the camomile, parboiled in water, conduces to calm. And yet I do not worship it. ↗

— David Mamet

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But yet it is evident that religion consists so much in affection, as that without holy affection there is no true religion; and no light in the understanding is good which does not produce holy affection in the heart: no habit or principle in the heart is good which has no such exercise; and no external fruit is good which does not proceed from such exercises. ↗

— Jonathan Edwards

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You couldn't say 'I had orders.' You couldn't say 'It's not fair.' No one was listening. There were no Words. You owned yourself. [...] Not 'Thou Shalt Not'. Say 'I Will Not'. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

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Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. ↗

— The Gospel of Matthew

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Götter sind Voyeure, keine Bediensteten. Und was sie antreibt ist aller höchstens Neugier, nicht Mitgefühl. ↗

— David Gray

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religion is for man and not man for religion ↗

— B.R. Ambedkar

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Philosophy is to religion as psychoanalysis is to pseudoscience ↗

— Christopher Marshall

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