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The great trouble with religion - any religion - is that a religionist, having accepted certain propositions by faith, cannot thereafter judge those p...more

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Belief gets in the way of learning.

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Anybody can look at a pretty girl and see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a pretty girl and see the old woman she will become. A better artist ca...more

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Democracy can't work. Mathematicians, peasants, and animals, that's all there is-- so democracy, a theory based on the assumption that mathematicians ...more

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I've never been able to understand 'faith' myself, nor to see how a just God could expect his creatures to pick the one true religion out of an infini...more

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Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.

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Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best, he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear his shoes, bathe, and not make...more

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One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.

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Some people insist that 'mediocre' is better than 'best.' They delight in clipping wings because they themselves can't fly. They despise brains becaus...more

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If God existed (a question concerning which Jubal maintained a meticulous intellectual neutrality) and if He desired to be worshiped (a proposition wh...more

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No matter what I said they insisted on thinking of God as something outside themselves. Something that yearns to take every indolent moron to His brea...more

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People simplify 'Apollonian' into 'mild', and 'calm', and 'cool'. But 'Apollonian' and 'Dionysian' are two sides of one coin--a nun kneeling in her ce...more

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Churches thrive on martyrdom and persecution.

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As for logic and internal consistency, these mundane rules do not apply to sacred writings and never have...

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A desire not to butt into other people's business is at least eighty percent of all human wisdom.