Quote #20
I don't like religion much, and I am glad that in the Bible the word is not to be found.
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- God wants man to fulfill his commands as a human being and with the quality peculiar to human beings.
- Solitude is the place of purification.
- God is the mysterium tremendum that appears and overthrows, but he is also the mystery of the self-evident, nearer to me than my I.
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