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Wherein lies happiness? In that which becks Our ready minds to fellowship divine, A fellowship with essence; till we shine, Full alchemiz’d, and free of space. Behold The clear religion of heaven! ↗

— John Keats

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This is because Marxism looks at things as a whole and in relation to each other—or tries to, but its limitations are not the point for the moment. A person who has been influenced by Marxism takes it for granted that an event in Siberia will affect one in Botswana. I think it is possible that Marxism was the first attempt, for our time [written in 1971], outside the formal religions, at a world-mind, a world ethic. It went wrong, could not prevent itself from dividing and subdividing, like all the other religions, into smaller and smaller chapels, sects and creeds. But it was an attempt. ↗

— Doris Lessing

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Human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to believe in a certain way, and can't really get rid of it. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

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Ist eine Lehre zur Satzung erstarrt, hat sie geendet. ↗

— Lao Tzu

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It has always been my belief that if you don’t ask the right questions, you won’t get the right answers. ↗

— Reid A. Ashbaucher

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One of history's most dangerous games begins with dividing the world into the good guys and the bad guys and ends with using any means necessary to take the villains out. ↗

— Stephen R. Prothero

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Sometimes what seems to be a difference in opinions is in fact just a difference in definitions. ↗

— Scott Adams

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‎إن الدين قبل كل شيء عقل سليم وقلب سليم، ومن فقد هذه السلامة، فلن يعزيه عنها ان يقيم شعائر أو يحفظ مراسم. ↗

— محمد الغزالي

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Most of us are not really approaching the subject [scriptures] in order to find out what Christianity says: we are approaching it [them] in the hope of finding support from Christianity for the views of our own party. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

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Landscape is my religion. ...God in a green legend, I lean over the pool In a testament of leaves. I dangle my twinkling mood Before me in a cool cave roofed with branches And floored with a skin of water. ↗

— Norman MacCaig

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