"Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art."
-William Ralph Inge
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"To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.“
-William Ralph Inge
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"The enemies of freedom do not argue they shout and they shoot."
-William Ralph Inge
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"We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form."
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"It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own."
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"A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours."
-William Ralph Inge
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"True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values."
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"I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more - I could be martyred for my religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that."
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"We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection."
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"This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple the philosophy is kindness."
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"It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing."
-David Herbert Lawrence
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