God is a fiction invented by people so they do not have to face the reality of their condition.
“God is a fiction invented by people so they do not have to face the reality of their condition.”
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God is a fiction invented by people so they do not have to face the reality of their condition.
“God is a fiction invented by people so they do not have to face the reality of their condition.”
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“God is a fiction invented by people so they do not have to face the reality of their condition.”
“I found it amazing people can think that art must be connected to religion. Religion may give art themes, but there would still be art without religion. Bach is not proof that art exists.”
“Camus believed in dialogue and diplomacy, and enlisted his work as a philosopher to the need to find nonviolent solutions, whereas Sartre called for violent conflicts and justified terror.”
“I am a sworn atheist and therefore from my point of view the Talmud or the Koran don't constitute works of political philosophy but rather writings that stand in utter contradiction to concepts like logic, freedom, feminism, secularism, brotherhood - which are my ideals.”
“Socialists find me too far left; Trotskyites not far enough; ecologists say I am too happy eating foie gras, defending nuclear energy and GM plants; feminists find I am not enough of a woman; anarchists a petit-bourgeois who has sold out because I believe in universal suffrage.”
“If the human condition were the periodic table, maybe love would be hydrogen at No. 1. Death would be helium at No. 2. Power, I reckon, would be where oxygen is.”
“My suggestion is that there's no way out of the human condition. Sex, death, marriage, children, parents, illness. There's no way out. They're a misery, all of them.”
“We kid ourselves that we're trying to be empathetic with the human condition from a distance, but I don't think that is it at all. It's stupid; it's a waste of time. But when the earth flexes its muscles, that's rather different. That's a powerful reminder of where we are.”
“For me, comedy is a day-to-day report on the human condition. It's what's happening right now. I get maybe 20 minutes of my act straight from the newspaper.”
“One of the things that science fiction gets to do is thought experiments about the human condition that would be impractical or unethical to conduct in real life.”
“I like Halldor Laxness and Machado de Assis - people who try to understand the human condition by looking at intimate pictures of human life.”