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The notion that only what is new and young is beautiful poisons our relationship to the past and to our own future.

— Walter Kaufmann Time is an Artist (1978)

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The most obvious failure of organized religions is surely that almost all of them have made a mockery of what their founders taught.

The Faith of a Heretic (1961)

Faith means intense, usually confident, belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person.

The Faith of a Heretic (1961)

Renouncing false beliefs will not usher in the millennium.

The Faith of a Heretic (1959)

Faith means not wanting to know what is true.

paraphrasing Nietzsche, The Faith of a Heretic (1961)

For atheism and polytheism there is no special problem of suffering, nor need there be for every kind of monotheism.

The Faith of a Heretic (1961)

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