As fast as I can tell there are only two emotions that keep the world spinning year after year. . . One is fear. The other is desire.
Hallucinations and illusions are not facts useful for scientific investigation.
Because morality is a social necessity, the moment faith in god is banished, man's gaze turns from god to man and he becomes socially conscious. Religious belief prevented the growth of a sense of realism. But atheism at once makes man realistic and alive to the needs of morality.
Who takes the blame: the leader who talks of poverty but lives in luxury, or the poor who choose a leader of that type?
Further, economic systems to which Marx gives primary importance, have never arranged themselves by themselves. It is men who do the ordering according to their attitudes, desires and understanding of things. Changes take place, not independent of man's will, but on account of man's wills. Civilization has progressed by man's interference with material conditions.
Positive secularism is not tolerance of all religions, but it is the total denial of religious beliefs: it is the emergence of homogeneous human outlook which is based upon verifiable facts of life.
The language of theism which was familiar to the people, gave Gandhi the advantage of easy communication with the people, but it is atheistic in principle. It could have been the starting point for the atheistic movement in the modern age.
A good conscience is paradise.
Quick, how do you pick up a cat?" "Buy her a drink.
We keep saying, 'We have no other course. ' What we should say is: 'We are not bright enough to see any other course. '
If you wish to achieve any success in this life, do your best to surround yourself with an orgy of good choices.