"Religion is a barbarous obsidian knife poised over our chests put it in a cabinet and admire it as a work of art, but don't ever wield the damned thing ever again."

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Source : "Atheism ≠ Fascism". freethoughtblogs.com. June 12, 2011.

PZ Myers

#Art Quotes #Knives Quotes #Cabinets Quotes

“There is nobody who is so enlightened that they don't need to work on themselves.”
“In private many scientists admit that science has no explanation for the beginning of life.... Darwin never imagined the exquisitely profound complexity that exists even at the most basic levels of life.”

Source : "Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution". Book by Michael Behe, 1996.
“Ask yourselves this question: How often is Jesus inside and knocking at the door to be let out, to come out? And we do not let him out because of our own need for security, because so often we are locked into ephemeral structures that serve solely to make us slaves and not free children of God.”
“Oh, say! what is that thing call'd light, Which I must ne'er enjoy? What are the blessings of the sight? Oh, tell your poor blind boy!”

Source : Colley Cibber, “The Blind Boy”
“The general public will almost always stand behind the traditionalists. In the public eye, architecture is about comfort, about shelter, about bricks and mortar.”

Source : Bernard Tschumi (1996). “Architecture and Disjunction”, p.247, MIT Press
“We humans have always needed rituals to draw like curtains over the chasms of the unknown. Without them we go mad, I think.”
“Do whatever you want to do, whenever you want to do it”
“Like it takes so little not only to change something, but to make you forget the way it once was, as well.”

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