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Where does a thought go when it’s forgotten?

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He does not believe that does not live according to his belief.

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Where does a thought go when it's forgotten?

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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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The words which we use in our everyday speech are nothing other than watered-down magic.

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With words one man can make another blessed, or drive him to despair; by words the teacher transfers his knowledge to the pupil; by words the speaker ...more

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Words and magic were in the beginning one and the same thing, and even today words retain much of their magical power.

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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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In his fight against the powers of the surrounding world his first weapon was magic, the first forerunner of our modern technology. We suppose that th...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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Religious doctrines … are all illusions, they do not admit of proof, and no one can be compelled to consider them as true or to believe in them.