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The most reliable joy is to be out of doors, to be a creature among other creatures. I find it very restful.
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Human consensus does not generate reality. Were it able to do so, the Sun would have taken to orbiting the Earth some time ago.
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Naturalism has been defined by many people. It's just a world view that does not include the supernatural so it's everything else.
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Law is necessary, but in a more functional culture, it would presumably be less necessary than it is now, because people would know what to do.
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Reverence is the sense that there is something larger than the self, larger even than the human, to which one accords respect and awe and assent.
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I like mindful people. Fear prevents mindfulness, and then greed marches in because you are fearful, so you feel like you have to shore everything up.
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You can't have thought without emotion, and one emotion is fear, and making an important decision on the basis of fear is not a good idea. So develop your courage.
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It is as we respond to the understandings and feelings inherent in... art that we acquire much of our truth, much of our nobility and grace, and much of our pleasure.
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The word "religion" goes back to the Latin ligere, "to bind." So religion means "to bind together again." I think we should develop religions that allow us to do that.
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When the responses elicited by the Epic of Evolution are gathered together several religious principles emerge that I can believe, serve as a framework for a global Ethos.
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There are two kinds of power. "Power over" is very problematical. "Power within" is very exciting. You can tell the difference by whether you are messing with other people or not.
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We are embedded in the great evolutionary story of planet Earth, the spare, elegant process of mutation and selection and bricolage. And this means that we are anything but alone.
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Life from nonlife, like wine from water, has long been considered a miracle wrought by gods or God. Now it is seen to be the near-inevitable consequence of our thermal and chemical circumstances.
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Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.
Martin Luther
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March 16, 1943
(age 81)
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