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“I'm not anti-social. I'm just not social.”
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“A classical education saves you from being fooled by pretentiousness, which is what most current fiction is too full of.”
― The Raymond Chandler Papers: Selected Letters and Nonfiction 1909-1959
― The Raymond Chandler Papers: Selected Letters and Nonfiction 1909-1959
“I am not even an atheist so much as an antitheist; I not only maintain that all religions are versions of the same untruth, but I hold that the influence of churches and the effect of religious belief, is positively harmful. Reviewing the false claims of religion I do not wish, as some sentimental materialists affect to wish, that they were true. I do not envy believers their faith. I am relieved to think that the whole story is a sinister fairy tale; life would be miserable if what the faithful affirmed was actually true.... There may be people who wish to live their lives under cradle-to-grave divine supervision, a permanent surveillance and monitoring. But I cannot imagine anything more horrible or grotesque.”
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“The first thing that distinguishes a writer is that he is most alive when alone.”
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“I think that when you consider the beauty of the world and you wonder how it came to be what it is, you are naturally overwhelmed with a feeling of awe, a feeling of admiration and you almost feel a desire to worship something. I feel this, I recognise that other scientists such as Carl Sagan feel this, Einstein felt it. We, all of us, share a kind of religious reverence for the beauties of the universe, for the complexity of life. For the sheer magnitude of the cosmos, the sheer magnitude of geological time. And it’s tempting to translate that feeling of awe and worship into a desire to worship some particular thing, a person, an agent. You want to attribute it to a maker, to a creator. What science has now achieved is an emancipation from that impulse to attribute these things to a creator.
-- God Delusion debate Professor Richard Dawkins vs John Lennox”
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-- God Delusion debate Professor Richard Dawkins vs John Lennox”
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