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You can't have your cake and eat it too – that is, you can't embrace a faith for the blessed poor in spirit and at the same time claim not to be one of them.

— Piergiorgio Odifreddi

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Mathematicians discover more things in the heavens of mathematics than philosophers dream of on Earth.

Art and mathematics are simply two sides of the same lithography.

Galileo Galilei was the greatest writer in Italian literature: that's not me saying it, it's Italo Calvino.

If I had to convince someone not to believe, I would tell them to read the Bible… but to read it carefully.

You know what philosophers are like – their schools are like comets: a bright head followed by a tail of debris.

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Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

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Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

Thomas Jefferson Letter to Peter Carr (1787)

I had never doubted my own abilities, but I was quite prepared to believe that "the world" would decline to recognize them.

Colin Wilson Postscript to the Outsider (1967)

Love is the active, working principle in all true faith. It is its very soul, without which it is dead. "Faith works by love."

Jonathan Edwards Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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