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One has to recognize that science is not metaphysics, and certainly not mysticism; it can never bring us the illumination and the satisfaction experienced by one enraptured in ecstasy. Science is sobriety and clarity of conception, not intoxicated vision. Ludwig von Mises
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Atheism is a system which can communicate neither warmth nor illumination, except from those fagots which your mistaken zeal has lighted up for its destruction. Charles Caleb Colton
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Your intelligence is a fire that can illuminate any darkness. Awaken and let your mind burn so brightly! You are alive for a reason! Bryant H. McGill
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Politicians use statistics in the same way that a drunk uses lamp-postsfor support rather than illumination. Andrew Lang
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Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvelous. I want to be a writer who reminds others that these moments exist; I want to prove that there is infinite space, infinite meaning, infinite dimension. But I am not always in what I call a state of grace. I have days of illuminations and fevers. I have days when the music in my head stops. Then I mend socks, prune trees, can fruits, polish furniture. But while I am doing this I feel I am not living. Anais Nin
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We all have a tendency to use research as a drunkard uses a lamppost - for support, but not for illumination David Ogilvy
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I notice increasing reluctance on the part of marketing executives to use judgment; they are coming to rely too much on research, and they use it as a drunkard uses a lamp post for support, rather than for illumination.
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Madness, and then illumination. Orson Scott Card
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We forget just how painfully dim the world was before electricity. A candle, a good candle, provides barely a hundredth of the illumination of a single 100 watt light bulb. Bill Bryson
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One does not become an atheist out of a desire for hassle-free Sunday mornings. People come to atheism because they have a problem with organized religion - usually a problem they consider to be of moral urgency. Lynn Coady
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Atheism is a strange thing. Even the devils never fell into that vice. Charles Spurgeon
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Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism. Denis Diderot
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Orthodoxy is a corpse that doesn't know it's dead. Elbert Hubbard
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A creed is an ossified metaphor.
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Theology is Classified Superstition.
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Formal religion was organized for slaves: it offered them consolation which earth did not provide.
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To no form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom, as all alike have taught her inferiority and subjection. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.
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One more fagot of these adamantine bandages is the new science of Statistics. Ralph Waldo Emerson