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| I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination |
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| I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. |
| Art |
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| I am neither especially clever nor especially gifted. I am only very, very curious. |
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| I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war. |
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| I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life and with the awareness and a glimpse of the marvelous structure of the existing world, together with the devoted striving to comprehend a portion, be it ever so tiny, of the Reason that manifest |
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| I believe in Spinoza's God who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists, not in a God who concerns himself with fates and actions of human beings |
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| I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind. |
| Life; Manners |
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| I believe that the first step in the setting of a real external world is the formation of the concept of bodily objects and of bodily objects of various kinds. |
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| I cannot believe that God plays dice with the cosmos |
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| I cannot believe that God would choose to play dice with the universe. |
| God |
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| I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the kind that we experience in ourselves. Neither can I nor would I want to conceive of an individual that survives his physical death; let feeble souls, from fear or absurd egoism, cherish such thoughts. I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life and with the awareness and a glimpse of the marvelous structure of the existing world, together with the devoted striving to comprehend a portion, be it ever so tiny, of the Reason that manifests itself in nature. |
| Uncategorized |
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| I cannot conceive of a personal God who would directly influence the actions of individuals, or would directly sit in judgment on creatures of his own creation. I cannot do this in spite of the fact that mechanistic causality has, to a certain extent |
| God; Religion |
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| I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation [and] is but a reflection of human frailty. |
| God |
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| I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms. |
| God |
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| I consider it important, indeed urgently necessary, for intellectual workers to get together, both to protect their own economic status and, also, generally speaking, to secure their influence in the political field. |
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| I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it. |
| Ethics |
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| I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil. |
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| I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed. |
| Civilization |
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| I do not believe that the Good Lord plays dice. |
| Luck |
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| I do not know how the third world war will be fought, but I can tell you what they will use in the fourth... rocks." |
| War |
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