"Belief and delusion are incestuous siblings."

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Source : Aleksandar Hemon (2009). “The Lazarus Project”, p.40, Pan Macmillan

Aleksandar Hemon

#Sibling Quotes #Belief Quotes #Delusion Quotes

“Seven days without love makes one weak.”
“I never grew up with a mother's hand - that's why I will forever be insecure, I think, in that primal way.”
“Live My Life provides a much needed shot of timely, thought-provoking, musically forward, irreverence to the status quo,”
“It's a very, very difficult space to operate in, the restaurant business-it requires a lot of human beings to intersect at just the right place to make it all work out.”
“A lot of YouTubers, because they have such pride in what they do, have a negative connotation towards television. I don't feel that way. I feel like it's another medium to reach a broader audience.”
“I persist in preferring philosophers to rabbis priests imams ayatollahs and mullahs. Rather than trust their theological hocus-pocus I prefer to draw on alternatives to the dominant philosophical historiography: the laughers materialists radicals cynics hedonists atheists sensualists voluptuaries. They know that there is only one world and that promotion of an afterlife deprives us of the enjoyment and benefit of the only one there is. A genuinely deadly sin.”

Source : Michel Onfray, Jeremy Leggatt (2007). “Atheist Manifesto: The Case Against Christianity, Judaism, and Islam”, p.219, Arcade Publishing
“What I do is live, how I pray is breathe, what I wear is pants.”
“What are you going to do? Are you going to keep looking backwards, full of anger, resentment and unfulfilled desire. Or are you going to be here now. Because everything is available for you in the here and now. Love, compassion, silence, bliss and Oneness.”

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