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Religion is the only means of introducing some notion of the high significance of life into the uncultivated heads of the masses, deep sunk as they are in mean pursuits and uncultivated drudgery.--Arthur Schopenhauer

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From the Archive (1997) The Right to Believe A Tour Around the Classics 1: William James, "The Will To Believe". https://t.co/WSMjADVzOR

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Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.--Euripides

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No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism.--Annie Wood Besant

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The reason that no computer program can ever be a mind is simply that a computer program is only syntactical, and minds are more than syntactical. Minds are semantical, in the sense that they have more than a formal structure, they have a content.--John Searle

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By Bentham, beyond all others, men have been led to ask themselves, in regard to any ancient or received opinion, Is it true? and by Coleridge, What is the meaning of it?--John Stuart Mill

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No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism.--Annie Wood Besant

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I think that I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics.--Richard Feynman

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One of the strengths of philosophy is that it teaches you what an argument is, what is evidence and what is rhetoric. It is abundantly clear from many of the debates in the media about Iraq, for example, that people have no idea how to argue, and this is dangerous.--Edward Craig

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Everything is gratuitous, this garden, this city and myself. When you suddenly realize it, it makes you feel sick and everything begins to drift...that's nausea.--Jean-Paul Sartre