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If faith cannot be reconciled with rational thinking, it has to be eliminated as an anachronistic remnant of earlier stages of culture and replaced by science dealing with facts and theories which are intelligible and can be validated.
 
If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.
 
You can change your life with a simple shift of attention. But to make that simple shift, you have to find your heart. It's the only way. Accept yourself, then transcend yourself.
 
Thus, we see that one of the obvious origins of human disagreement lies in the use of noises for words.
 
Fiction is life with the dull bits left out.
 
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
 
The stirrings of morality emerge early in childhood. Toddlers spontaneously offer toys and help to others and try to comfort people they see in distress.
 
...love is not synonymous with sex. Sex may be studied as a purely physiological need. Ordinarily sexual behavior is multi-determined, that is to say, determined not only by sexual but also by other needs, chief among which are the love and affection needs. Also not to be overlooked is the fact that
the love needs involve both giving and receiving love.
 
Unless man have a natural bent in accordance with nature's, he has no chance of understanding nature at all.
 
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
 
The European wars of religion were more deadly than the First World War, proportionally speaking, and in the range of the Second World War in Europe. The Inquisition, the persecution of heretics and infidels and witches, they racked up pretty high death tolls.
 
God: a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays.
 
ON SONGWRITING
It's like glueing macaroni to a piece of cardboard and painting it gold
 
120 million of us place the big bang 2,500 years after the Babylonians and Sumerians learned to brew beer.
 
You've got to have a map: to know where you came from, where you are, where you want to be, and how to get there.
 
If you can cultivate the right attitude, your enemies are your best spiritual teachers because their presence provides you with the opportunity to enhance and develop tolerance, patience and understanding.
 
Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.
 
Well done is better than well said.
 
But I hold that he who teaches that not reason but love should rule opens up the way for those who rule by hate.
 
It is better for you to take responsibility for your life as it is, instead of blaming others, or circumstances, for your predicament. As your eyes open, you'll see that your state of health, happiness, and every circumstance of your life has been, in large part, arranged by you - consciously or unconsciously.
 
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