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The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.

Lucretius

Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
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Anand Thakur
No single thing abides; but all things flow. Fragment to fragment clings – the things thus grow Until we know them and name them. By degrees They melt, and are no more the things we know.
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Cling Degree Flow Fragment
Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.
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Atheist Creation Earth Fear God
The old must always make way for the new, and one thing must be built out of the ruins of another. There is no murky pit of hell awaiting anyone.
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Await Built Old Way
Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.
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Anand Thakur
Nothing can be created out of nothing.
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Creation Existence
So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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Action Evil Religion
We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
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Body Decay Mindset Strength
Such crimes has superstition caused.
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Crime Reason Superstition
How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]
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Anand Thakur
When bodies spring apart, because the air Somehow condenses, wander they from truth: For then a void is formed, where none before; And, too, a void is filled which was before.
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Body Empty Fill Spring Truth
Thus the sum Forever is replenished, and we live As mortals by eternal give and take. The nations wax, the nations wane away; In a brief space the generations pass, And like to runners hand the lamp of life One unto other.
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Anand Thakur
Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.
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Anand Thakur
True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
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Mindset Pity Power True Universe
The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.
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Anand Thakur
For there is a VOID in things; a truth which it will be useful for you, in reference to many points, to know; and which will prevent you from wandering in doubt.
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Anand Thakur

The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.

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