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This explains the primary mission which he feels to be entrusted to him, that of an intensifier of religious faith.

— Henri Bergson The Two Sources of Morality and Religion (1932)

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The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.

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Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.

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The universe is a machine for making gods.

The Two Sources of Morality and Religion (1932)

Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.

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Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.

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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.

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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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