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Religion is the opiate of the masses. ↗

— Karl Marx

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I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves. ↗

— Carl Sagan

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Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun. ↗

— Alan Wilson Watts

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The secret of Buddhism is to remove all ideas, all concepts, in order for the truth to have a chance to penetrate, to reveal itself. ↗

— Thích Nhất Hạnh

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As soon as a religion comes to dominate it has as its opponents all those who would have been its first disciples. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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I'm probably 20 percent atheist and 80 percent agnostic. I don't think anyone really knows. You'll either find out or not when you get there, until then there's no point thinking about it. ↗

— Brad Pitt

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If you know that I am an unbeliever, then you know me better than I do myself. I may be an unbeliever, but I am an unbeliever who has a nostalgia for a belief. ↗

— Pier Paolo Pasolini

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Calvin:"It says here that 'religion is the opiate of the masses.'...what do you suppose that means?" Television: "...it means that Karl Marx hadn't seen anything yet ↗

— Bill Watterson

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The problem with religion, because it's been sheltered from criticism, is that it allows people to believe en masse what only idiots or lunatics could believe in isolation. ↗

— Sam Harris

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Men are made for happiness, and he who is completely happy has the right to say to himself, 'I am doing God's will on earth. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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