“An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.”
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Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.
The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.
Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.
The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.
