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That which he projects ahead of him as his ideal, is merely his substitute for the lost narcissism of his childhood - the time when he was his own ide...more

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The question of the purpose of human life has been raised countless times; it has never yet received a satisfactory answer and perhaps does not admit ...more

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We will therefore turn to the less ambitious question of what men themselves show by their behavior to be the purpose and intention of their lives. Wh...more

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When a man is freed of religion he has a better chance to live a normal and wholesome life.

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I can imagine that the oceanic feeling could become connected with religion later on. That feeling of oneness with the universe which is its ideationa...more

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The demons of animism were usually hostile to man, but it seems as though man had more confidence in himself in those days than later on.

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.It is asking a great deal of a man, who has learnt to regulate his everyday affairs in accordance with the rules of experience and with due regard to...more

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Thus we arrive at the singular conclusion that of all the information passed by our cultural assets it is precisely the elements which might be of the...more

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Where questions of religion are concerned, people are guilty of every possible sort of dishonesty and intellectual misdemeanor.

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It would be very nice if there were a God who created the world and was a benevolent providence, and if there were a moral order in the universe and a...more

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At this point it may be objected: well, then, if even the crabbed sceptics admit that the statements of religion cannot be confuted by reason, why sho...more

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If you want to expel religion from our European civilization, you can only do it by means of another system of doctrines; and such a system would from...more

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Perhaps the hopes I have confessed to are of an illusory nature, too. But I hold fast to one distinction. Apart from the fact that no penalty is impos...more

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It would be an undoubted advantage if we were to leave God out altogether and honestly admit the purely human origin of all the regulations and precep...more

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Observe the difference between your attitude to illusions and mine. You have to defend the religious illusion with all your might. If it becomes discr...more