“Whatever sympathy I feel towards religions, whatever admiration for some of their adherents, whatever historical or biological necessity I see in them, whatever metaphorical truth, I cannot accept them as credible explanations of reality; and they are incredible to me in proportion to the degree that they require my belief in positive human attributes and intervenient powers in their divinities.”
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“I required kindness and sympathy, but I did not believe myself utterly unworthy of it.”
“His morality is all sympathy, just what morality should be”
“You must feel what you're singing, not just have a good presentation of the language.”