The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.

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Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish author, poet and playwright. After writing in different literary styles throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular and influential dramatists in London in the early 1890s. He was a key figure in...

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Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

The higher the buildings, the lower the morals.

Many species reciprocate, but only humans gossip, and much of what we gossip about is the vale of other people as partners for reciprocal relationships.

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

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Such evil deeds could religion prompt.

—Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.

—Matthew Arnold

Everybody likes to go their own way—to choose their own time and manner of devotion.

I've often thought the Bible should have a disclaimer in the front saying this is fiction.

For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.

—James Feibleman

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