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One of the truly bad effects of religion is that it teaches us that it is a virtue to be satisfied with not understanding.
- Richard Dawkins
Quietly they moved down the calm and sacred river that had come down to earth so that its waters might flow over the ashes of those long dead, and that would continue to flow long after the human race had, through hatred and knowledge, burned itself out.
- Vikram Seth
Perceiving her son endowed with the characteristics of Vishnu, Devaki prayed: You are the Illuminator of all psycho-physical organisms, the indefinable Reality, which the Vedas declare as the unmanifest cause… When the universe is dissolved by force of Time, the gross elements are ultimately merged in ahankara (their cause)…
- Scriptures
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.
- W. Somerset Maugham
No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.
- Gautama Buddha
Fairy Tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
- G. K. Chesterton
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