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I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren't.
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I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren't.
What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike.
In the study of ideas, it is necessary to remember that insistence on hard-headed clarity issues from sentimental feeling, as if it were a mist, cloaking the perplexities of fact. Insistence on clarity at all costs is based on sheer superstition as to the mode in which human intelligence functions. Our reasoning grasps at straws for premises and float on gossamer for deductions.
The science of pure mathematics, in its modern developments, may claim to be the most original creation of the human spirit.
The worship of God is not a rule of safety, it is an adventure of the spirit, a flight after the unattainable. The death of religion comes with the repression of the high hope of adventure.
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