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Christianity, and Catholicism in particular, are based on sacred books aimed at illiterate communities of shepherds.

— 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.

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.

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

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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

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Albert Pike Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Logan Pearsall Smith Afterthoughts (1931)

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