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last updated: November 28, 2023

There is no comfortable middle path where we get to provide a rational justification for our basic moral, religious and common sense beliefs.
-- Frederick C. Beiser

Source : "Diotima’s child". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. September 21, 2012.

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All Taliban are moderate. There are two things: extremism ['ifraat,' or doing something to excess] and conservatism ['tafreet,' or doing something insufficiently]. So in that sense, we are all moderates - taking the middle path.
-- Mohammed Omar

Source : "Omar: 'Our plan is the destruction of America'". BBC World Service Interview, www.independent.co.uk. November 16, 2001.

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“All the tales of miracles, with which the Old and New Testament are filled, are fit only for impostors to preach and fools to believe.”
“Canada, as you know, is a major important nation boasting a sophisticated, cosmopolitan culture that was tragically destroyed last week by beavers.”
“Oh, the most fun thing I've ever been asked to autograph was breasts.”
“You asked me where I generally lived. In my workshop [i.e. in his study] in the mornings and always in the library in the evening. Books are companions even if you donâ€™t open them.”
“I've never felt the constraints of social acceptability.”
“Human beings are not creatures of logic; we are creatures of emotion. And we do not care what's true. We care how it feels.”
“I wonder if children don't begin to reject both poetry and religion for similar reasons, because the way both are taught takes the life out of them.”

Source : Kathleen Norris (1997). “The Cloister Walk”, p.52, Penguin
“The Yoga of the Dream State has always held to be one of the fastest, most efficient ways of reaching a plateau experience of subtle and causal realms, thus quickly opening the door to stable adaptation at - and transcendence of - those realms.”
“Because you do not believe?" "Oh, no," said Attolia bitterly. "Because I believe and do not choose to worship.”
“Life starts out with everyone clapping when you take a poo and goes downhill from there.”

Source : Sloane Crosley (2012). “I Was Told There'd Be Cake”, p.110, Portobello Books