The World Motivation
My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests.
“My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests.”
My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests.
Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator.
It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.
Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.
The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be.
My personal feeling is that understanding evolution led me to atheism.
There is no being eloquent for atheism. In that exhausted receiver the mind cannot use its wings, - the clearest proof that it is out of its element.
I don't think atheism means one does not believe in a spiritual life. I think it means one does not follow the tenets of the established religions.
I have always regretted the dumb and offensive comments I made in my 20s on atheism and homosexuality.
To give religion two minutes a day, in its own space, isn't exactly selling general morality or atheism short.