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“Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.”

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Book:Major Works

Source: Major Works

“Good character consists of knowing the good, desiring the good, and doing the good habits of the mind, habits of the heart, and habits of action.”

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Book:Educating for Character: How Our Schools Can Teach Respect and Responsibility

Source: Educating for Character: How Our Schools Can Teach Respect and Responsibility

“Human psychology has a near universal tendency to let belief be coloured by desire.”

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Book:The God Delusion

Source: The God Delusion

“An intelligent couple can read their Darwin and know that the ultimate reason for their sexual urges is procreation. They know that the woman cannot conceive because she is on the pill. Yet they find that their sexual desire is in no way diminished by the knowledge. Sexual desire is sexual desire and its force, in an individual's psychology, is independent of the ultimate Darwinian pressure that drove it. It is a strong urge which exists independently of its ultimate rationale.”

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Book:The God Delusion

Source: The God Delusion

“Physics has never been a comfortable subject for human psychology. The desire to regard everything outside the human race's purview as insignificant, and everything within that purview as firmly under the control of tribal myth and custom, is as strong today as it was in the time of Galileo.”

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Book:The decline and fall of science

Source: The decline and fall of science