"The social problem is that we haven't come up with any alternative models. Our culture hasn't developed an ars erotica. Think, for example, of conditions in India or in Japanese culture and of how the erotic has been cultivated there. They're not as clinical and rabbit-like as we are."

-- Volkmar Sigusch

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“Dear Father, take my heart on a prayer journey today to erase the distance between those I love and me. Amen.”
“I don't steal things. I'm rich.”
“I think the whole human-induced greenhouse gas thing is a red herring... . I see climate change as due to the ocean circulation pattern. I see this as a major cause of climate change... . These are natural processes. We shouldn't blame them on humans and CO2.”
“In a well-run mental household there ought to be a thorough cleaning at the threshold of consciousness a few times a year.”
“In any war, there is a concealment of certain kinds of setbacks because it's propaganda for the enemy.”
“If he [the Artist] were to take up the pen it would be...to better express his individuality and explain it to others; or else to put his internal affairs in order...to deepen and sharpen his relationship with his fellow men because other souls exert an immense and creative influence on our soul; or to try to fight for a world as he would like it to be, for a world that is indispensable to his life.”
“Next time someone tells me they believe in God, I'll say 'Oh which one? Zeus? Hades? Jupiter? Mars? Odin? Thor? Krishna? Vishnu? Ra?...' If they say 'Just God. I only believe in the one God,' I'll point out that they are nearly as atheistic as me. I don't believe in 2,870 gods, and they don't believe in 2,869.”

Source : "Ricky Gervais: Why I’m an Atheist". blogs.wsj.com. December 19, 2010.
“I've always had a more spatial mind, mathematical, than literal.”

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