Quote of the Day

“Religion and philosophy serve the same need. Both try to fend off the abiding disquiet that goes with being human.” — John Gray, Feline Philosophy

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“Death anxiety is the mother of all religions, which, in one way or another, attempt to temper the anguish of our finitude.” — Irvin D. Yalom, Staring At The Sun

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“Underneath all his preoccupations with sex, society, religion, etc. (all the staple abstractions that allow the forebrain to chatter) there is, quite simply, a man tortured beyond endurance by the lack of tenderness in the world.” — Lawrence Durrell, The Alexandria Quartet

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“For many men, work is the effective religion, a ritual occupation and inflexible orientation which permits them to imagine that the problem of their personal death has been solved.” — John Updike, Self-Consciousness

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“The Puritans nobly fled from a land of despotism to a land of freedim, where they could not only enjoy their own religion, but could prevent everybody else from enjoyin his.” — Artemus Ward, London Punch Letters, No. 5 (1866)

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“One of the complaints leveled against me is, ‘Oh, Bill, you’re such a meanie. Why do you have to go after religion? It gives people comfort; it doesn’t hurt anything.’ Okay, well, other than most wars, the Crusades, the Inquisition, 9/11, arranged marriages to minors, blowing up girls’ schools, the suppression of women and homosexuals, fatwas, ethnic cleansing, honor rape, human sacrifice, burning witches, suicide bombings, condoning slavery, and the systematic fucking of children, there’s a few little things I have a problem with.” — Bill Maher, But I’m Not Wrong