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"Wherever there is a religious regime, over there there is ignorance, misery and absurdity! No religious state can ever elevate its own people! Sooner or later, the primitiveness of the religious administrations and the irrationality of the religious rules will cause a great collapse of those countries! The downfall is inevitable!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief." »Sigmund Freud
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"My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage." »Peggy Noonan
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"You can't divorce religious belief and public service ... I've never detected any conflict between God's will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other." »James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.
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"Live by what you believe so fully that your life blossoms, or else purge the fear-and-guilt producing beliefs from your life. When people believe one thing and do something else, they are inviting misery. If you give yourself the name, play the game. When you believe something you don't follow with your heart, intellect, and body, it hurts. Don't do that to yourself. Live your belief, or let that belief go. If you are not actively living a belief, it's not really your belief, anyway." »Roger John
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"Faith is like love, it cannot be forced. Therefore it is a dangerous operation if an attempt be made to introduce or bind it by state regulations; for, as the attempt to force love begets hatred, so also to compel religious belief produces rank unbelief." »Schopenhauer
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"How miserable a solipsist is! It is rather senseless for him to even assert his belief in solipsism, for, on the one hand, if his belief is false it is like committing intellectual suicide, and, on the other hand, if his belief is true it is an act of intellectual insanity." »Kedar Joshi
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"It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it." »Albert Einstein, Letter, 24 March 1954. Quoted in "Albert Einstein: The Human Side," edited by Helen Dukas and Banesh Hoffman
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"The fact that people have religious experiences is interesting from the psychological point of view, but it does not in any way imply that there is such a thing as religious knowledge...Unless he can formulate this 'knowledge' in propositions that are empirically verifiable, we may be sure that he is deceiving himself." »Alfred Jules Ayer
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"Pride not thyself on thy religious works, Give to the poor, but talk not of thy gifts: By pride religious merit melts away, The merit of thy alms, by ostentation." »Manu
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"You may believe whatever you want; but the most important thing is to update you belief with the truth, with the science! Your dearest belief might be the biggest buncombe ever! Don’t be sad! Continue your road with the new truth! Everything changes!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"America's greatest strength, and its greatest weakness, is our belief in second chances, our belief that we can always start over, that things can be made better." »Anthony Walton
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"The assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for His existence. But this is a rash argument, as we should thus be compelled to believe in the existence of cruel and malignant spirits, only a little more powerful than man for the belief in them is far more general than in a beneficent Diety." »Charles Robert Darwin
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"The belief that there are other life forms in the universe is a matter of faith. There is not a single shred of evidence for any other life forms, and in forty years of searching, none has been discovered. There is absolutely no evidentiary reason to maintain this belief." »Michael Crichton, Caltech Michelin Lecture, January 17, 2003
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"If a belief can be lost, it's not worth to trust. If a belief can not be lost, it will kill you." »Woody Haldrugold
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"From a psychological point of view, when people go under pressure in life, be it economically or otherwise, they seek support from the people closest to them, usually religious or ethnic groups. They also start blaming other groups who have more control over the national resources. If the gap of power is wide, this will eventually create deep divisions in the nation. The divisions can take on new forms of conflict such as class warfare, ethnic, religious, political unrest and sometime civil war. The only effective protection against national divisions is an open socioeconomic system with a large and growing middle class" »Med Jones
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"I was always puzzled by the fact that people have a great deal of trouble and pain when and if they are forced or feel forced to change a belief or circumstance which they hold dear. I found what I believe is the answer when I read that a Canadian neurosurgeon discovered some truths about the human mind which revealed the intensity of this problem. He conducted some experiments which proved that when a person is forced to change a basic belief or viewpoint, the brain undergoes a series of nervous sensations equivalent to the most agonizing torture." »Sidney Madwed
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"It is always a great honour to mention a truth which has not become widespread yet. One of these truths is that man has no soul; he has only 'body' and 'mind'. Man's unshakable belief on the soul will not change this scientific truth! No belief can be higher than the scientific truths! Man can be born, can walk and work and can think without owning a mysterious and an immaterial soul! The soullessness of the man is a great tragedy both for the man and for the religion. But Man, contrary to the religion, will come out with triumph from this tragedy." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"I hope I never get so old I get religious." »Ingmar Bergman
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"I don't know why it is that the religious never ascribe common sense to God." »W. Somerset Maugham
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"Theists and atheists are equally religious." »Kedar Joshi
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"religious experiences which are as real as life to some may be incomprehensible to others." »William Orville Douglas
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"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction." »Blaise Pascal
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"Religion is far too important a thing for atheists to leave to the religious." »Tor Nørretranders, Mærk Verden (English title not known)
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"The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms." »Henri Frdric Amiel
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"Nothing shocks me more in the men of religion and their flocks than their pretensions to be the only religious people." »Jean Guehenno
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"Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters." »Isaac Bashevis Singer
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"I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult." »Rita Rudner
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"A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain." »Jessamyn West
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"People may say what they like about the decay of Christianity the religious system that produced green Chartreuse can never really die." »Saki
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