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In this century we have made remarkable material progress, but basically we are the same as we were thousands of years ago. Our spiritual needs are still very great.
 
Intelligence is not about knowing the answers but about asking the questions.
 
Indeed, religion allows people to imagine that their concerns are moral when they are highly immoral - that is, when pressing these concerns inflicts unnecessary and appalling suffering on innocent human beings. This explains why Christians like yourself expend more "moral" energy opposing abortion than fighting genocide. It explains why you are more concerned about human embryos than about the lifesaving promise of stem-cell research. And it explains why you can preach against condom use in sub-Saharan Africa while millions die from AIDS there each year.
 
We do not really think, we are barely conscious, until something goes wrong.
 
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
 
Governments want efficient technicians, not human beings, because human beings become dangerous to governments – and to organized religions as well. That is why governments and religious organizations seek to control education.
 
It is better to be hated for what one is, than loved for what one is not.
 
Most people use social media not to open their horizons wider, but to lock themselves in a comfort zone.
 
This is the true horror of religion. It allows perfectly decent and sane people to believe by the billions, what only lunatics could believe on their own.
 
Sleep is the best meditation.
 
USER: The word computer professionals use when they mean "idiot."
 
Woman was God's second mistake.
 
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
 
The philosophers have only interpreted the world. The point, however, is to change it.
 
It begins with skepticism. The history of human folly, and our own susceptibility to illusions and fallacies, tell us that men and women are fallible.
 
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
 
It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.
 
Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.
 
Well, it's either kiss me or kill me, that's how I see it.
 
In the fetus, or a really young child, all the different brain areas are connected to each other, diffusely. And as the brain develops, the excess connections are turned off, so you get very specialized areas. So most people have really specialized talents. What happens in creative people is this pooling doesn't take place.
 
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