"If God is incomprehensible to man, it would seem rational never to think of Him at all."

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Source : Paul-Henri Thiry Baron d'Holbach, Voltaire , Voltaire, Anna Knoop, L. W. De Laurence, Jean Meslier (2010). “Superstition in All Ages”, p.61, Lulu.com

Jean Meslier

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“The period of Catholic ascendancy was on the whole one of the most deplorable in the history of the human mind. . . . The spirit that shrinks from enquiry as sinful and deems a state of doubt a state of guilt, is the most enduring disease that can afflict the mind of man. Not till the education of Europe passed from the monasteries to the universities, not till Mohammedan science, and classical free thought, and industrial independence broke the sceptre of the Church, did the intellectual revival of Europe begin.”
“What's crazy is living your life according to some book written by someone who couldn't imagine what your life would be like.”
“I do not stick to rules when cooking. I rely on my imagination.”
“If acorns start growing into theologians, or if women begin turning into pillars of salt, then we may wish to hypothesize about a supernatural influence. But until such time as nature becomes hopelessly unintelligible and unpredictable, we need look no further than nature itself for explanations.”

Source : George H. Smith (2010). “Atheism: The Case Against God”, p.262, Prometheus Books
“Yoga is firstly for individual growth, but through individual growth, society and community develop.”
“My childhood was as conventional as you could get.”
“If life was an arc of light that began in darkness, ended in darkness, the first part of his life had happened in ordinary glare. Here it was as though he had found a polarized lens that deepened and intensified all seen through it.”
“Train wreck, extremely fast train, but usually ends up derailed somehow,”

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