“The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.”
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It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.
Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.
In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory.
No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.