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I'm an atheist: I don't know what it means to believe in God.

— Rita Levi-Montalcini

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Rare are those people who use the mind, few use the heart and really unique are those who use both.

After centuries of dormancy, young women can now look toward a future moulded by their own hands.

The women who changed the world never needed to show anything other than their own intelligence.

Better to add life to your days than days to your life.

In life one should never give in, surrender oneself to mediocrity, but rather move out of that grey area where everything is habit and passive resignation. One has to grow the courage to rebel.

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Most intellectual people do not believe in God, but they fear him just the same.

Wilhelm Reich Philosophy : An Introduction to the Art of Wondering (2005)

Religion in so far as it is a source of consolation is a hindrance to true faith; and in this sense atheism is a purification.

Simone Weil

One of the most exquisite pleasures of human love — to serve the loved one without his knowing it — is only possible, as regards the love of God, through atheism.

Simone Weil Last Notebook (1942)

In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true is true or becomes true, within certain limits to be found experientially and experimentally. These limits are further beliefs to be transcended.

John C. Lilly The Human Biocomputer (1974)

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