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Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit.

I, therefore, demand the formation of a consolidated Muslim State in the best interest of India and Islam.

The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.

God doesn’t believe in the easy way.

Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.

You can never betray the people who are dead, so you go on being a public Jew; the dead can’t answer slurs, but I’m here. I would love to think that Jesus wants me for a sunbeam, but he doesn’t.

I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.

The gods’ service is tolerable, man’s intolerable.

The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.

The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief, which is at the heart of all popular religion, that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.