"Although religion might be useful in developing a solid moral framework - and enforcing it - we can quite easily develop moral intuitions without relying on religion."

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Source : "The Story of God". Book by Robert Winston, www.theguardian.com. 2005.

Robert Winston

#Intuition Quotes #Might Quotes #Moral Quotes

“After close to a year of traveling, I had seen things in the world and in myself, both good and bad, that I had never noticed before. I was struggling daily with pride and insecurity, homesickness and loneliness, with the burden of picking up my cross and following Jesus. This journey produced a new hunger for redemption in me.”
“I haven't stopped playing. If you play all the time, then your chops are up and you tend to grow.”
“The chief is the chief. He is the eagle who flies high and cannot be touched by the spit of the toad.”
“Isn't it better to triumph by the strength of your muscles than by the artifice of a derailleur?”
“Throughout the years I have tried to hone my skills to gain mastery over the music in my head.”
“In 'thinking up' music I usually have some kind of a brass band with wings on it in back of my mind.”
“You're more than a story.”
“The film from the beginning is not the real world; it's an imaginary world. And this imaginary world is both inside and outside the normal world.”

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